Hopefully this is the right forum, if not I hope someone doesn't mind moving this topic
Anyway today Napolean had a visit with the Holistic Vet! The vet sent us home with a few things:
Plant Enzyme w/ Probiotics to help him break down his food better. Which should help with the allergic response. It should also boost the immune system.
Herbal Ear Drops with Mckillips to put in his ear for a couple weeks. He's got tons of gunk down there hopefully this will help out.
Colostrum to help boost his immune system. He said he probably didn't get enough as a baby and so this would help. One of the vets I work with says she thought it wasn't absorbable after the stomach sack closed or something? But according to everything I've read it's bovine colostrum so it isn't species specific, and is beneficial to basically everyone. We're gonna roll with it.
Lastly we got Thuja which is to help with symptoms of vaccinosis[and is homeopathic]. He said that even though Napolean hasn't had vaccine reactions it could have lowered his immune system so we're treating for it.
He was strongly against vaccines and flea control. I'm fine holding off on vaccines, the cats are indoor cats and have been vaccinated for the past 3 years so they should be immune. I'm semi leery only because I have seen cats with distemper and it isn't pretty. Anything I can do to protect my kids! But I think they're protected enough since there's studies going out saying we're over doing it, not to mention in people we don't repeatedly vaccinate for things like polio and measles and alla that... so yeah.
I'm NOT backing down on my flea control. I love my Revolution, and like being flea free. I think balancing his diet and body should be fine... it should make him strong enough to deal with the flea control
And I KNOW you've all been telling me this over and over, but now the VET said it so I'm going along. He said that RAW food is basically hypoallergenic because since it's not cooked all the natural enzymes remain intact. He had me take home some Rad Cat chicken. Hopefully combining the probios, colostrum, and treating the ear, along with the thuja should make him strong enough to handle eating chicken even though he's allergic to it otherwise.
SO after spending $165 I don't know that I'd go back there for simple things I can get at my own clinic, or for surgery... but if he needed to be on IV fluids, or have a check up, I'll probably go back. He was TOTALLY chill. At my clinic he's a freak and thinks we're going to torture him. He only growled once after the doctor looked in his bad ear. Other than that he was cool as a cucumber and being friendly and cute. It's comforting because I know he's pretty happy/comfortable there, so I feel like if he really did get sick, there's a place we could go that wouldn't be as stressing to him as my clinic is.
All this being said, I think we're onto something! He ate some rad cat tonight, no qualms about it [yay!] so I'm excited!
Anyway today Napolean had a visit with the Holistic Vet! The vet sent us home with a few things:
Plant Enzyme w/ Probiotics to help him break down his food better. Which should help with the allergic response. It should also boost the immune system.
Herbal Ear Drops with Mckillips to put in his ear for a couple weeks. He's got tons of gunk down there hopefully this will help out.
Colostrum to help boost his immune system. He said he probably didn't get enough as a baby and so this would help. One of the vets I work with says she thought it wasn't absorbable after the stomach sack closed or something? But according to everything I've read it's bovine colostrum so it isn't species specific, and is beneficial to basically everyone. We're gonna roll with it.
Lastly we got Thuja which is to help with symptoms of vaccinosis[and is homeopathic]. He said that even though Napolean hasn't had vaccine reactions it could have lowered his immune system so we're treating for it.
He was strongly against vaccines and flea control. I'm fine holding off on vaccines, the cats are indoor cats and have been vaccinated for the past 3 years so they should be immune. I'm semi leery only because I have seen cats with distemper and it isn't pretty. Anything I can do to protect my kids! But I think they're protected enough since there's studies going out saying we're over doing it, not to mention in people we don't repeatedly vaccinate for things like polio and measles and alla that... so yeah.
I'm NOT backing down on my flea control. I love my Revolution, and like being flea free. I think balancing his diet and body should be fine... it should make him strong enough to deal with the flea control
And I KNOW you've all been telling me this over and over, but now the VET said it so I'm going along. He said that RAW food is basically hypoallergenic because since it's not cooked all the natural enzymes remain intact. He had me take home some Rad Cat chicken. Hopefully combining the probios, colostrum, and treating the ear, along with the thuja should make him strong enough to handle eating chicken even though he's allergic to it otherwise.
SO after spending $165 I don't know that I'd go back there for simple things I can get at my own clinic, or for surgery... but if he needed to be on IV fluids, or have a check up, I'll probably go back. He was TOTALLY chill. At my clinic he's a freak and thinks we're going to torture him. He only growled once after the doctor looked in his bad ear. Other than that he was cool as a cucumber and being friendly and cute. It's comforting because I know he's pretty happy/comfortable there, so I feel like if he really did get sick, there's a place we could go that wouldn't be as stressing to him as my clinic is.
All this being said, I think we're onto something! He ate some rad cat tonight, no qualms about it [yay!] so I'm excited!