This blog has been created to share our story with SARDS, Sudden Acquired Retinal Degeneration Syndrome. My beloved dog Shasta is an Alaskan Malamute/German Shepherd mix and she is only 5 1/2 yrs old. This blog discusses our journey from the time of her diagnoses and through the trial and tribulations of treatment. Don't worry...it has a happy ending so please read further.
Friday, December 6, 2013
A Discovery with Heartworm Preventatives and Pest Repellants
9/4/13 - Upon returning from the beach I realized it was time for Shasta's monthly dose of Heart Worm and Flea/Tick prevention medicine. What did the Ophtho say about an ingredient in heart worm prevention meds that can cause blindness? oh yeah...Ivermectin. So I have my daily discussion with Dr. P. and ask him about this and coincidentally he was working with another client and finding that some of these preventative meds for pets may be more significant in their role of blindness in dogs than originally had thought, along with other illnesses. So we both start digging deeper. Dr. P. went through some old case files and found out that even more recently a lot of cats have been experiencing heart attacks, strokes, and even death and the only thing found in their system as to a possible culprit are ingredients in these preventative meds. So we did some research and found some more case studies on these ingredients and I've decided to not give Shasta preventative heart worm or flea/tick meds for now.
Dr. P and I have written an article for Nutricula Magazine regarding our findings of these studies, so if you are interested, please refer to Dr. P's website and/or Nutricula Magazine (online) where the article is published. http://www.nutriculamagazine.com/chemical-insect-repellents/
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I adopted a 17 year old dog who had been treated for heart worm when he was about 1 year old, and had been given heart worm preventative medicine and flea and tick products for the last 16 years. He had heart failure and we overcame that with a combination of the Plechner treatment protocol, a couple of heart medicines--keeping the toxicity down by keeping the doses on the low side, plus large doses of Co enzyme Q 10, given several times a day.
ReplyDeleteAnyone with heart failure, or with a dog or cat with heart failure, should read Dr. Stephen Sinatra's book, The Sinatra Solution, Metabolic Cardiology.
Then we found that he had bladder cancer. I am suspicious that all those years on heart worm preventative together with Plechner Syndrome could be the reason this dog got bladder cancer. I have read that bladder cancer rates have risen in dogs, and I wonder if this might be one of the reasons. Bladder cancer is quite resistant to conventional treatments.
We managed to get the bladder tumor to regress by half in 5 weeks by using, antioxidants in injectable form (glutathione, vitamin B-12, vitamin C, and taurine in a little ringer's solution sub-cutaneously. On the advice of Dr. Alessandro Prota (Rome) we did bladder infusions with sodium bicarbonate in them. We gave a full spectrum of oral antioxidants. Dr.Plechner used 6 spears of asparagus at every meal for a French Bulldog whose tumor he got to regress without chemotherapy, using his protocol. So we gave this dog asparagus at every meal, and the hypo-allergenic diet. He was doing really well, and we were using an ant-acid mix of minerals that alkalize the body,as Dr.Prota thought that he showed signs of excess acidity. We had to treat ulcers on the cornea of his eye. When we thought his body was less acid, we tried raising his cortisone dose, as he was under the replacement dose level. But that caused him to ulcerate and perforate, and we were not able to save him. I learned a lesson. When you are working on an animal which is like defusing a complex bomb, caution is not enough. His raised dose was tested using Solu-medrol which acts for only 12 hours, but in only 36 hours he had developed the ulcer. In such a tricky case test by raising the dose one milligram and keeping it there, and then cautiously by raising the dose one more milligram. And be sure you have gotten rid of the excess acidity of the body first. You can give non-dairy hypollareginc probiotics which contain no cornstarch or other allergens in substantial doses to help prevent the formation of ulcers, plus mastic. Licorice can cause the cortisol to re-cycle, so it is not advisable to give licorice with the Plechner protocol.
an idea for people who live in particularly dangerous areas for heart worm or who have particularly vulnerable animals, who feel that have to give Ivermectin to their animals, which is to make sure their animals have a clean gut, and access to hypoallergenic probiotics, to give them the detoxifying clay in their diets. To use SAM-e which detoxifies by methylation, and be sure there are fresh vegetables in their diets. Enzymes in fresh food are important.
Unlike the conventional veterinarians, Dr. PLechner did not believe the heart worm and flea chemicals are benign. He had seen too much. And after all, who ever heard about SARDs 20 or 30 years ago? Are we seeing an epidemic caused by poor foods and toxic chemicals, over-vaccination, etc.?