Hom Vets, Vethoms and FIP - was Hom Vets
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:03 pm
Rosemary C Hyde PhD wrote:
Dear Rosemary,
I probably do not need to answer - I've sent so many posts on FIP:-))
But just in case, here's info for everyone that may be good to know:
First though - It's a passion of mine to try to reduce feline suffering
from FIP so I accept two cases a week - I'm not a vet, I'm a veterinary
homeopath, and I consult by email - so the client is doing all the
treating and nursing, and buying any remedies, and I provide advice and
suggestions.
I'll answer Soroush here too:
I'm a veterinary homeopath, not a veterinarian and I help my clients
treat their animals, by email. This approach is legal here in the state
of WA. (WA state has affirmed it specifically in my case that the way I
use my training is appropriate for local law.
I have seen only two dozen or so cats with FIP "in person". That was
during my years working from Medical Lake vet clinic near here, where I
was vet's assistant and a Bach remedy consultant.
I have however helped owners of many more cats with FIP by email as
a veterinary homeopath, for two cases a week on average since Jan 2003.
(That was when I first had success with FIP after I left the clinic to
work on my own; the clinic had zero success which is typical.)
The following may be useful to anyone who has a cat or has a client with
a cat:
There are three forms of FIP:
"Effusive" is evidenced by a bloated abdomen and/or thorax, filled
with fluid, and is usually the trickiest to manage due to its rater of
progress. In effusive FIP the effusion is yellow, sticky and high
protein, and its source is leaky blood vessels.
"Dry FIP" cats show emaciation and inappetance, liver or other organ
damage.
"Neurological FIP" has the nervous system attacked first (FIP attacks
everything eventually, it's a matter of what order it occurs per case)
and one typically sees seizures of some kind, or at least tremors, for
example eye pendulum seizures and paralysis follows in some cases -
violent seizure in others.
One form can lead into another very quickly and unexpectedly, with
extreme overnight changes in symptoms. It's quite a daunting disease.
Common factors: High globulin in the blood, usually low albumin,
ravenous appetite followed by no appetite and muscle marasmus and
starvation as the organs of digestion break down. The disease involves
(in all cases) damage to the skewed immune system via a FIPV virus,
resulting in antibodies being made against the cat - and which thus
destroy the cat.
Standard vet treatment is the worst possible approach - steroids
and antibiotics, steroids being an almost certain death sentence, even
if you later substitute homeopathy. ANY toxin speeds the disease -
including from antibiotic or from food that contains feline toxins
(alfalfa, garlic, yucca, rosemary) or fruit and veg (for which cats are
not designed).
I have frequently asked on forums of homeopaths - and ask again here! -
(and have asked among my students at BIH) - for others to join me in
trying to work with this illness.
So far no takers. On the allopathic side the main researcher is perhaps
veterinarian Dr Dianne Addie. We have opposed views on approach as she
believes in steroids and interferon and on trying to remove the raw
material from the environment (an impossibility to remove gut corona and
cruel to the cats to use the proposed approach IMO), but we are in
agreement on cause of FIP - which is stresses such as:
* chemical stress (vaccines and drugs mainly),
* physical stress (young kitten spay surgery for example),
* nutrition stress (toxins in most commercial cat foods),
* emotional stress (eg weaning before 3 months, caging a feral cat in a
shelter, and other issues that affect the cat's essential need to feel
secure, like being constantly bullied by another cat/animal or moving
house.)
* or any combination - usually three or more stressors in a short period
will trigger the mutation to FIP virus in a cat with a skewed immune
system. Each cat mutates their own FIP - they do not get it from a cat
who has it.
The most usual trigger cause in a young kitten or young cat is
multi-valent vaccines, vaccination prior to 3 months, repeated vaccines
for the same thing, and drugs to handle the vaccinosis mistaken for
infections.
If this email tells even one person a little about how to avoid FIP, it
will be well worth it's weight in words:-)
If it finds me another homeopath to work on FIP - well, that would be
wonderful!
Have a great day.
Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
Dear Rosemary,
I probably do not need to answer - I've sent so many posts on FIP:-))
But just in case, here's info for everyone that may be good to know:
First though - It's a passion of mine to try to reduce feline suffering
from FIP so I accept two cases a week - I'm not a vet, I'm a veterinary
homeopath, and I consult by email - so the client is doing all the
treating and nursing, and buying any remedies, and I provide advice and
suggestions.
I'll answer Soroush here too:
I'm a veterinary homeopath, not a veterinarian and I help my clients
treat their animals, by email. This approach is legal here in the state
of WA. (WA state has affirmed it specifically in my case that the way I
use my training is appropriate for local law.
I have seen only two dozen or so cats with FIP "in person". That was
during my years working from Medical Lake vet clinic near here, where I
was vet's assistant and a Bach remedy consultant.
I have however helped owners of many more cats with FIP by email as
a veterinary homeopath, for two cases a week on average since Jan 2003.
(That was when I first had success with FIP after I left the clinic to
work on my own; the clinic had zero success which is typical.)
The following may be useful to anyone who has a cat or has a client with
a cat:
There are three forms of FIP:
"Effusive" is evidenced by a bloated abdomen and/or thorax, filled
with fluid, and is usually the trickiest to manage due to its rater of
progress. In effusive FIP the effusion is yellow, sticky and high
protein, and its source is leaky blood vessels.
"Dry FIP" cats show emaciation and inappetance, liver or other organ
damage.
"Neurological FIP" has the nervous system attacked first (FIP attacks
everything eventually, it's a matter of what order it occurs per case)
and one typically sees seizures of some kind, or at least tremors, for
example eye pendulum seizures and paralysis follows in some cases -
violent seizure in others.
One form can lead into another very quickly and unexpectedly, with
extreme overnight changes in symptoms. It's quite a daunting disease.
Common factors: High globulin in the blood, usually low albumin,
ravenous appetite followed by no appetite and muscle marasmus and
starvation as the organs of digestion break down. The disease involves
(in all cases) damage to the skewed immune system via a FIPV virus,
resulting in antibodies being made against the cat - and which thus
destroy the cat.
Standard vet treatment is the worst possible approach - steroids
and antibiotics, steroids being an almost certain death sentence, even
if you later substitute homeopathy. ANY toxin speeds the disease -
including from antibiotic or from food that contains feline toxins
(alfalfa, garlic, yucca, rosemary) or fruit and veg (for which cats are
not designed).
I have frequently asked on forums of homeopaths - and ask again here! -
(and have asked among my students at BIH) - for others to join me in
trying to work with this illness.
So far no takers. On the allopathic side the main researcher is perhaps
veterinarian Dr Dianne Addie. We have opposed views on approach as she
believes in steroids and interferon and on trying to remove the raw
material from the environment (an impossibility to remove gut corona and
cruel to the cats to use the proposed approach IMO), but we are in
agreement on cause of FIP - which is stresses such as:
* chemical stress (vaccines and drugs mainly),
* physical stress (young kitten spay surgery for example),
* nutrition stress (toxins in most commercial cat foods),
* emotional stress (eg weaning before 3 months, caging a feral cat in a
shelter, and other issues that affect the cat's essential need to feel
secure, like being constantly bullied by another cat/animal or moving
house.)
* or any combination - usually three or more stressors in a short period
will trigger the mutation to FIP virus in a cat with a skewed immune
system. Each cat mutates their own FIP - they do not get it from a cat
who has it.
The most usual trigger cause in a young kitten or young cat is
multi-valent vaccines, vaccination prior to 3 months, repeated vaccines
for the same thing, and drugs to handle the vaccinosis mistaken for
infections.
If this email tells even one person a little about how to avoid FIP, it
will be well worth it's weight in words:-)
If it finds me another homeopath to work on FIP - well, that would be
wonderful!
Have a great day.
Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
