Can you use CBD oil to treat seizures and epilepsy in dogs? If so how do you give it and what dose of CBD oil should you use?
Today’s video is all about using cbd oil to treat epilepsy in dogs does it really work okay so let’s get on to the first question and the first one is from pail who’s got a seven month old beagle who says for the last month he started to get seizure attacks and within the last two months he’s had six at six seizures six attacks and he’s asking can i help him know
How he can use cbd oil to treat these seizures what amount should be given any brands that i can recommend you know and can they can can i recommend which cbd law would be best to help this dog so the first thing i’m going to say is that we really need to try and determine the cause of the seizures so i’m steve’s can be caused by a number of different things it
Can be caused by organ disease infections poisoning brain lesions and then epilepsy so in a younger dog epilepsy is definitely one of the the main differentials although this one is quite young normally epilepsy starts maybe from about about a year old although it can be from six months so it certainly fits in from from that point of view now if we’re talking
About epilepsy as a whole then you know we also need to think about when do we want to start treatments for these seizures so generally that’s if a dog has had two or more seizures in a six-month period certainly if they’re having more than one seizure a month we also want to think about treating them if they’ve not recovered i’m between seizures or if they’re
Having severe seizures or if the recovery in general is very long so that’s kind of some triggers to start treatment and if the seizures aren’t caused by epilepsy then we really need to try and address the underlying cause so we also get developmental problems so anatomical problems in younger dogs so that can be things like fluid on the brain water on the brain
And you know we need to kind of be addressing those causes it could be a liver shunt or something like that which can also cause seizures so we don’t want to assume that just because it is a young dog and maybe they otherwise seem to be pretty normal that epilepsy is the cause you know we also need to think about trying to find out the underlying cause because
If it’s not epilepsy then often they won’t respond as well to anti-seizure medication alone we all need to give other things give other drugs use other interventions and to try and get these these pet seizure free or certainly to reduce the frequency in the severity of these seizures now next when we’re thinking about treating seizures we need to think about
Choosing the best anti-seizure medication for that individual so with drugs like phenobarbital and epitone you know they’re our first line of frontline drugs that we use to treat certainly epilepsy in dogs you know we know how effective they can be we know what to expect with long-term administration we know how to monitor for potential side effects you know and
That’s really important so if we think of cbd oil then research actually into it’s used to control seizures it’s just in its early stage there are some current investigations going on some current studies being run but you know we don’t know exactly the details yet we don’t know which dogs they’re going to be most effective in do we need to use the cbd oil with
Additional medication and are there concerns with giving it will it actually make things worse you know are there side effects that we need to know about so although you know these studies are starting to run we need to think about why we’re going to try a drug that we don’t know how you know we don’t know much about we don’t know how well it’s going to work and
All those other things you know why are we thinking about using a drug like that when we’ve got other drugs in our arsenal if you like to treat seizures and certainly to treat epilepsy so we need to be clear you know there’s a lot of information online there’s a lot of hype there’s a lots of people who are very enthusiastic about the use of cbd oil and about its
Treatment for any number of conditions from epilepsy certainly one from arthritis and pain and we’ve actually got a little bit of information about its use as a painkiller from an antique anti-cancer drug for an anti-allergy drug from an anti-anxiety point of view you know cbd oil is being touted as the next big thing to treat pretty much anything we really need
To be careful if you want to know more about this topic than i’ve actually written about it in a lot of detail check out the show notes for the links links to that article and that talks about yeah the use of cbd oil in the treatment of seizures but also anxiety arthritis and cancer and i’ve also got another article about the risk of marijuana so if you’re thinking
Well medical marijuana might be an option well you know that’s something we really need to consider because actually the thc in that can be dangerous so you definitely need to need to know about that if you’re thinking of using any kind of medicinal marijuana products so you know that’s something to think about as for what dose to use you know and what supply to
Use you know supplies really going to depend on where you are in the world we definitely want to be if you’re thinking of using a cbd oil we definitely want to be using a product that has had some independent analysis done to confirm that actually it’s got what it says it’s got and it’s got low to zero thc in it i’m you know and that’s gonna vary depending on where
You are in the world so i wouldn’t like to give you any kind of brand and as for dose you know i make a point of actually never giving doses for drugs because i don’t think that’s the place for me i don’t think it’s the place for anyone online i think dosing an individual treatment plan should be overseen and recommended by an individual vet after examining that
Patient i think that’s the only sensible way that’s the only safe way to go about treating an individual so you know i certainly make a point of never giving doses but you know i hope that gives you something to think about if you are thinking about using cbd or to treat any form of seizures certainly the treatment of epilepsy you’ve been watching the doctor alex
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CBD Oil and Seizures in Dogs (the best treatment?) – Dog Health Vet Advice By Our Pets Health
