Treatment
Diary: January 2003 to the present
A
new year, a newly-revised supplement regime! The combination of
these herbs and other nutritional supplements was carefully balanced
by Dr. Scanlan for Hector specifically, please check with your
vet if you are considering adding any of these to your pet's diet,
as they can be toxic if not dosed correctly. There is a biography
of Dr. Scanlan here on her own website.
| Hector's
New Daily Supplement Regime |
|
Hoxsey
|
(D'Arcy
Naturals - World Herbs for Pets brand) dry powder; 1/2
provided spoon per day. Ingredients: Oregon grape root, burdock
root, red clover flowers, poke root, prickly ash bark, stillingia
root, alfalfa leaf, cascara sagrada bark, licorice root. |
|
Graviola
|
(Rain-Tree
brand) 200 mg per day, i.e. 1/3 of the powder from inside
the capsule. Ingredients: pure Graviola ground leaf and stem.
(See also medical
studies abstracts here and Graviola.org) |
| Glucosamine
Sulfate |
100
mg daily (powder from capsule) |
| Vitamin
E |
200
IU liquid, once daily (see weblinks) |
| Vitamin
B complex |
1ml
(1 dropperful) twice daily (see
benefits of B for cats) |
| Cod
Liver Oil |
1
capsule daily (Twinlab brand since its screened for toxic
metals)
|
| Raw
food & canned |
1/2
can of Felidae cat food
in with 1/2 can's worth of frozen, prepared raw food (details
below), twice daily. Also early evening 1/2 can Fancy Feast,
one of the high protein, no by-product flavors, so that he'll
eat the supplements. |
Made
several significant changes from original regime that Hector's
been getting since October. Discontinued the Microhydrin, Colostrum
and AnimalLife from Pat McKay. Continue feeding prepared raw food
from Pat McKay, the "Bitch & Stud" variety which
is extra finely ground, and of which he prefers the chicken and
turkey. Stopped feeding supplemental raw fish, being worried about
its content of thiamin which destroys vitamin B1. Gradually reduced
the raw liver from two-fingers worth a day to half-a-thumb quantity
a day, to avoid longterm Vitamin A overdose. Cod Liver Oil is
high in Vitamin A & D, so along with the raw liver, need to
dose carefully to avoid toxicity. Vitamin E is supposed to help
to counteract this danger. See paper
presented here.
At
first I wondered, why Glucosamine? But I found out, "Glucosamine
is rapidly taken up by cartilage cells and helps stimulate the
synthesis of synovial fluid and cartilage and also helps inhibit
the destructive enzymes that can destroy cartilage and proteoglycans.
The anti-inflammatory aspect of glucosamine may result from the
scavenging of harmful free radicals (similar to antioxidants)."
source
January
7 - GREAT news! I can't quite believe it, but Hector's tumor,
which if you remember had swollen back up to the point where I
was asking everyone about amputation after our Dec 29th vet visit
is totally flat and dried up!! Its not completely healed and there
is still a hard, dark scab, but such an improvement!
Dr.
Scanlan was very pleased, and I almost fainted when the bandage
came off and it looked like it did. Hooray for Hector! I can't
help but attribute the change at least in part to the addition
of the Graviola to his supplements and switching from the omega
combo to the pure cod liver oil. (I also did a whole bunch of
feng shui cures for better health in the house just in case!)
And maybe all the extra time I was able to spend giving him extra
love over the holidays helped too?
The
bandage Dr. Scanlan put on was too loose and was slipping down,
so I took it off and re-wrapped it... and took some photos. Poor
Hector's leg does look rather atrophied, plus the fur from being
wrapped up all the time looks terrible. But if you scroll down,
you'll see one of the rest of him, which is his true handsome
self!
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click to see this one full size
January
12 - Feeling well enough to jump up to play "get the
sock" in drawer. :)
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