Monday, February 22, 2010

Treatment of Canine Bladder Infection - With Natural Solutions

The treatment of canine bladder infections is pretty much the same as with humans, when you are using homeopathy.

Homeopaths always start off any new consultation with a search for the cause of the problem. In dogs and cats, the cause of many disease are their diet. People tend to think that processed dog food is wholesome and nutritious..

Easy it may be. Wholesome and nutritious it is not. Holistic vets around the world are very much aware that when a pet’s diet is switched from processed food to a quality raw food diet, many serious diseases disappear. As a result, their business is reduced.

Holistic vets are happy about that, as they want quality of life for their patients, not increased income.

So, you need to start by changing the diet of your dog, if you want to see a difference. No amount of treatment, natural or otherwise, will be effective until you address the cause.

With that in place, the choice of homeopathic medicines can be very effective, fast and permanent. But you need to be able to match your dog’s symptoms with those of the most appropriate medicine.

With pets, it can be more difficult to match these symptoms as we can only use the objective symptoms. Subjective symptoms can’t be used, as we can’t talk to them and ask them about these.

However, that simply means you have to be more observant, and especially, be objective. Don’t try to put words into your dogs mouth, as it were.

The treatment of canine bladder infection can be resolved with the homeopathic medicine Pulsatilla, provided the symptoms agree.

The key symptoms of the urinary tract within this medicine are:

  •  bladder pain which is worse at the end or urination, so the dog may yelp then
  •  bladder pain which is worse when retaining urine, so the dog may have frequent attempts to urinate
  •  there may be involuntary urination especially at night when asleep, when coughing, sneezing or passing flatus

You also need to match the psyche of the dog to the medicine. In Pulsatilla, this is a loving but shy and timid dog who is easily influenced. That doesn’t mean they can’t be irritable. In fact the mood can change quickly from timidity to irritability.

Those who do well on this medicine tend to be warm blooded, with an intolerance or worsening of the symptoms when warm or hot, and an improvement in a cool environment.

There is also a lack of thirst, but this may be difficult to see in dogs fed dried food, as that will make them more thirsty than normal.