Allergies and Skin Problems in Cats - Cause and Natural Treatment

What Are The Symptoms of Touble Before Dermatitis (Skin Problems) Manifests?

You may not have been aware of the relationship of signs of your pet’s body trying to rid itself of any of a variety of toxin insults. What is this natural process? The body uses every orifice (openings in the body) to discharge out the toxic offenders. This can result in vomiting, diarrhea, and discharges from the eyes, ears, nose, vagina, penis and skin. It may take the form of a fever- “burning the toxins in the oven of fever”.

The biggest organ of detoxification in the body is the liver, which changes the toxin into a form that can be excreted by the intestines and kidney. When the liver is overwhelmed with toxins, the Pituitary asks for help from the rest of the endocrine system:

ADRENALS- Which divert toxins via the gastrointestinal tract and may develop into vomiting and diarrhea.

OVARIES- Vaginal discharges of toxins develop which may appear as straw colored fluid or pus.

THYROID- Skin discharges of toxins is the most common since the skin is the largest organ surface of excretion.

These early signs of intoxications are the signs of the body’s “honest fight” that too many times are shut down by medical doctors’ treatment of symptoms not causes with antibiotics, steroids, antihistamines, etc. This drives the toxins deeper within the tissues and manifest as new symptoms: allergies, nephritis, urinary bladder obstructions from crystalluria in cats, bladder stones, circulatory, heart and endocrine problems, obesity, dermatitis, skin polyps, and tumors in the skin and internal organs. These are the “rounding up” of the toxins in the tissues when the body can no long excrete them. At each stage of new signs from the body to rid itself of the toxin medicine steps in and shuts it down only to go deeper with a new set of symptomatology. This is the principle of Homotoxicology (self-poisoning of man) written so brilliantly by Dr. Hans Heinrick Reckeveg from Germany and founder of the largest homeopathic pharmacopoeia in Europe.

Because the immune system is also toxic, the body develops a multitude of allergies i.e., fleas, pollens (weeds, trees, grasses), hydrocarbons in the air from car emissions, contact foreign allergens - wool, nylon, silk, chicken feathers in pillows as well as FOOD ALLERGIES. In my experience 80% of the skin problems I see have not only multiple allergies to their environment but to the food they eat i.e., beef, chicken, milk products, corn, wheat, and soybeans. Therefore treatment of skin problems should not be directed at specific treatment for the skin per say by steroids (cortisone, prednisone, prednisilone, vetalog, etc.) the WORST treatment for allergies and dermatitis as it depresses an already impaired immune system and adds one more drug toxin to the burden. Steroids also make it difficult to affect any beneficial affects from homeopathy and acupuncture, which rely on some form of operating immune system. Steroids leave the body defenseless to the invasion by parasites, bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Long-term steroid therapy can produce endocrine imbalances, nonregenerative anemia, weakening of the skeletal bone structure, and autoimmune diseases. Other skin treatments are oral drugs, antibiotics, inorganic phosphate pesticides for flea control in the form of oral pills, shampoos, dips, skin penetrating drops and flea collars; steroid skin salves, etc. It is more logical and proper to treat the REAL cause of allergies and skin problems- intoxication of the body's physiological organs and immune system.

To Learn What Should Be Done To Detoxify The Body's Organs and Immune System - please refer to the full version of this article. There you will find Dr. Dodd's advice about various natural detoxification techniques as well as helpful homeopathic products.

Gloria Dodd, D.V.M., graduate of the University of California School of Veterinary Medicine at Davis in 1960; private practitioner; pioneer in holistic veterinary medicine (the use of natural alternative therapies of acupuncture, chiropractic, natural nutrition, homeopathy, and magnetic field therapy); studied with medical naturopaths in Germany, South America and the U. S.; cofounder of the California Holistic Veterinary Medical Association 1981, member of CVMA since 1960, appointed Co-Chairperson for the Committee of Alternative Medicine on the Board of Governors CVMA ; international lecturer, teacher, and published in Prevention Magazine, California Veterinarian, American Journal of Acupuncture, Ultra Molecular Medicine and other journals. Nominated for OUTSTANDING WOMAN VETERINARIAN OF 1986 by the Association for Women Veterinarians.

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