Emergency Treatment For Animals Using Homeopathic Remedies Course 

This lesson covers the imbalance that accompanies vertigo

The animal presents with incoordination, lack of balance, falling, difficulty standing or walking, maybe a tilt of the head, maybe walking in circles, perhaps with rapid eye movement. Sometimes there is nausea and vomiting.

This can be a reaction to a veterinary drug or toxicity from snail/rat/chemical poison, a poisonous plant or any toxin. It can also be from commercial pet food. You wouldn’t have any way of knowing if they changed their recipes.

The sudden onset will always respond to Aconite and Rescue Remedy. Then you have to evaluate what could have caused the problem.

If you suspect a poison, check out that section, check with the local poisons helpline and be very observant of what your animal is doing.

If they are purging, they are eliminating the problem well, as long as it slows down. Intense and repeated purging may indicate they are unsuccessful and help may be needed urgently.

If they just want to rest, I suggest that should be allowed, but keep an unobtrusive eye on them, especially their breathing rate. Keep a record of that so you can quickly see any changes that may indicate a change.

An accumulation of ear congestion or other conditions can cause imbalance. However, that’s unlikely to happen suddenly. You would have noticed that before.

A head, neck or spinal trauma can also be the cause of imbalance. Check out that section.

I'll tell you about one incident where I thought I needed emergency help fast. It was about 13 or 14 years ago, and actually involved Dorcha--a very young cat at the time. We were living in rural Pennsylvania, where our three cats roamed acres of farm and woodlands all day and night. Dorcha had been missing for a couple of days, and I was getting concerned. I walked around the area calling his name, and just as I was heading up the road to our house, I heard the tiniest squeak of a sound--it could have been a cat or a bird or something else. I looked at the area it came from, a swampy mess that undoubtedly was home to hundreds of ticks, did not see any sign of Dorcha, and continued home. About two hours later I heard a tiny squeak at the front door. I opened the door and there was Dorcha just outside the door. He looked up at me, his eyes widened, and he suddenly fell over on his side, and flipped back and forth on his back several times. Then he got up and entered the house, seemingly fine. But no, he then repeated the same thing:looked up at me, eyes widened, fell on his side and flipped back and forth before getting up. My husband was there too by then; neither of us had ever seen such behavior by a cat before. It was Sunday, so we couldn't take him to our vet, and so we took him to the emergency vet for our area. We got a very young vet (or maybe vet in training) who, as soon as he heard that Dorcha was behind on his rabies shot, told us it was probably rabies. We still refused the shot, and he warned us to keep a close look at Dorcha, because if he started doing anything unusual we would have to euthanize him and get rabies shots ourselves. Needless to say we were horrified, and came home in a state of shock. The next day we took Dorcha to our usual vet, an older man with years of experience and a tendency to avoid modern medicine when possible. We told him what had happened, and when we got to the rabies part he absolutely blew up muttering about the stupidity of modern vets. He told us it was clear that Dorcha had feline vestibular syndrome (vertigo), that it was not at all dangerous, and he might never have it again. The odd thing was that I had had vertigo recently, which is not contagious, and when Dorcha was flipping back and forth I thought that resembled the "Epley Maneuver", which is used for humans who have vertigo. I sure wish I'd known something about homeopathy then!

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