Arginine is an essential amino acid for the feline urea cycle: never give lysine supplements to cats
L-LYSINE SUPPLEMENTS SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO CATS, because L-lysine is antagonistic to L-arginine which is an essential amino acid for cats, meaning that they have to get L-arginine in their food: cats rapidly sicken without it. L-arginine is found in meat: cats are obligate carnivores. This video explains why dietary L-arginine is essential for the urea cycle to work in the cat (whereas humans can be vegans and our urea cycles still function). L-arginine is also essential for macrophage function.
Three key enzymes compete for available L-arginine: arginase-1 in the urea cycle, inducible nitric oxide synthase in M1 macrophages and arginase-2 in M2 macrophages. When L-arginine is in short supply it will preferentially go to the urea cycle rather than the immune system. Macrophages are key cells for immune function and are the target cell in feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) development.
Are cats with low plasma arginine more likely to develop FIP? I don’t know, but I suspect the answer will be yes. I do know that lowering their plasma arginine by using L-lysine will sabotage their ability to recover, and I suspect that using L-lysine in feline coronavirus (FCoV) infected cats will make them more likely to develop FIP.
LINKS:
For further information on feline CoV and FIP treatment, please visit .
The role of arginine in FIP:
MEDSimplified video explaining urea cycle: although there are one or two typos in the video.
Video by Ninja Nerd explaining the human urea cycle:
Drooling cat video source:
KEY REFERENCES:
Bol S, Bunnik EM. Lysine supplementation is not effective for the prevention or treatment of feline herpesvirus 1 infection in cats: a systematic review. BMC Vet Res. 2015;11:284. doi:
Morris JG, Rogers QR. Ammonia intoxication in the near-adult cat as a result of a dietary deficiency of arginine. Science. 1978;199(4327):431–2.
WHO IS DR ADDIE?
Diane Addie is a veterinary virologist, she was a Senior Lecturer and Head of Diagnostic Virology at the University of Glasgow Veterinary School. For over three decades her research has been devoted to feline coronavirus (FCoV), and her website, aims to supply difficult to source information on FCoV, FIP and chronic gingivostomatitis. She is a member of the European Advisory Board of Cat Disease, but the views expressed in this video are her own.
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