Emergency Treatment For Animals Using Homeopathic Remedies Course 

Acute dehydration comes from serious body fluid loss.

Chronic dehydration generally comes on slowly because the kidneys aren’t working. You can tell if an animal is dehydrated by the turgor test. Check online videos for how to do that.

So this is not normally an emergency unless your animal disappeared and reappeared unwell, as in the case below, or you suddenly noticed.

Acute dehydration comes about from a large body fluid loss - bleeding, constant vomiting and/or diarrhoea, sweating profusely as in the case of herbivores. Sometimes on very hot days.

Cats don’t have a natural thirst as they rely on the fluid of their prey for most of their liquid needs. So it’s important to add water to their food. I do about 50/50. NEVER feed cats dry ‘food’.

Obviously the first thing you have to deal with is the bleeding (injury, shock), vomiting/diarrhoea or sweating (injury, shock). See relevant section.

Once that’s all in hand and you can see the animal relaxing, sleeping or generally at ease, then you need to consider the dehydration factor.

If your animal is an adult, generally healthy, with no chronic condition, the causative factor was short lived and the body fluid loss was not excessive according to their size, then it’s likely they will recover the fluid loss themselves. However, it’s advisable to monitor them over the coming days and doing the turgor test periodically. Check in with your homeopath in normal hours.

If you have been successful in stopping the fluid loss, but feel that it was excessive, then the remedy China is very helpful in supporting the body’s efforts in replenishing the fluid. Suggested dose of 30c a few times in the first day, tapering that off. Check in with your homeopath when you can.

If you haven’t been able to stop the fluid loss, or the loss was excessive, it’s likely the animal will be in some distress and emergency care may be indicated.

Putting an animal on a drip can be beneficial and it can also cause problems. Doing the Sub Q process at home reduces the stress at the vet and on your wallet. I have very limited experience of either.

People tell me that when they do the Sub Q at home, they respond to the cat, who will indicate when they’ve had enough. Invariably, that’s much less than is recommended.

The only experience I have had was with a cat who had a drip at a vet, on a rare visit I made. Later, she vomited up enormous amounts of fluid, when she wasn’t drinking at all. All the fluid leaked into her stomach and she then had to expel it. She didn’t survive, and that would have been a contributing factor, as it put her body under so much extra stress.

The case below is a wonderful case study of how you can do so much at home. The electrolyte recipe she shares was from the internet and can be easily found.

My cat … came into the house and flopped onto the bed..... His breathing was laboured, and he was very dehydrated.
I think it was a holiday and the weekend so the vets were shut. He had never been vaccinated for anything and I did not want him to have an antibiotic, so I treated him for his symptoms. He had to be kept warm and he had to get water into him for the dehydration.
I looked up on the web what to give for dehydration and came up with an hydrating solution which was boiled water, sugar and salt. It had some critical quantities which I forget.
I made up the solution and gave it to him every 10 minutes a little at a time, on a dropper, night and day for three days. At first he just took it, but as he got stronger he began to fight it.
Gradually, after a week, he started to recover but I was persuaded to take him for a check up, just in case.
It was a Saturday and we got mixed up because our vets is a group practice – we went to the wrong branch. By this time it was too late to get to his appointment so we came home. He seemed to know where he was being taken, or it was so unusual for him to ride in the car that he had grave misgivings – as they do.

He made an amazing recovery all under his own immune defence system.

Personally, although a lot of work, I feel this is more beneficial for acute dehydration.

I found a recipe with a slight variation and feel both can be improved upon. Here are my reasons.

The addition of:

• salt - this can be a problem depending on the type of salt and the health of the animal. A far better alternative is to add tissue salts. See below.
• baking soda - can be a problem. Baking soda has an alkalising effect, which is great for us as we are alkaline beings as are herbivores. Cats, however, are acid beings, Dogs are too.
• sugar - sugar is a processed food, something I avoid at all cost
• honey - is not a natural food for most animals, so I would also avoid that.

Maybe the sweeteners are added to soften the taste of the salt? I can’t see any other reason.

Tissue salts, sometimes called cell salts, are Schuessler salts. Schuessler was a Swiss homeopath who wanted to make remedies available for general use. He discovered that the body consists of 12 minerals or mineral salts and that when someone is deficit in one or more, poor health results.

Instead of making them available in physical or material form, the potentised them (a homeopathic process) so they would have both physical properties and energetic properties. This not only replenishes the body of the mineral loss, it heals the body, preventing further losses.

They are readily available, from many health stores, online, from homeopaths and homeopathic pharmacies. The potencies are 3x or 6x. This is indicated after the name of the remedy.

You can use just one, Natrum muriaticum (which is salt) or add extra. I would be inclined to add all 12.

Add a few pillules (small pills) or one large one, depending on how they come, of each salt to about 1/2 litre/1 pint water (preferably chemically clean, but use what you is normal for you - however NOT ALKALINE WATER for cats or dogs) in a glass/ceramic container (plastic tastes). Cover when not in use.

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