For more help or just to talk with people in the same situation, join my Facebook group: ….I’ve used many alternative approaches over the years for cats and myself. Some work, some don’t, and a lot depends on the situation. Here’s the scoop on feline hyperthyroidism and “non-traditional” treatments. I’m planning a series of short videos covering aspects of feline hyperthyroidism. Hope they help. The videos are free, but odds are that we wouldn’t mind if you wanted to make a donation. Pretty sure our creditors won’t object either. You can do that via Paypal using fdposton@gmail.com or via GoFundMe through the Al’s Legacy Cat Fund at You can also find some of my writings about feline hyperthyroidism and cat stories on my site.
I know that some people don’t like what we call traditional medicine it can be a little bit afraid of it and sometimes that’s justified the medications aren’t always as well researched as they should be and sometime sometimes profit gets in the way but that doesn’t mean they are always bad and for something like feline hyperthyroidism now if you’re going to go
With the medication i’m afraid you’ve got to go with the traditional ones at some form of methimazole if you read about the side effects and the potential problems it sounds scary but that’s true of so many of the medications in a different video i’ll be covering the tricks to keep any of those problems at bay or at a minimum or the serious ones that you do need
To look for but right now i want to talk about the alternative approaches holistic homeopathic and what you have to keep in mind with feline hyperthyroidism is that it’s caused by an almost always benign tumor and it’s great that it’s almost always benign but that doesn’t mean it’s any less stubborn this sucker is a pain and it resists so many approaches and the
Holistic homeopathic approaches simply do not work and if you read the websites for products such as thyroid gold or rest iero notice that the companies talk about how their product can make the cat act better look better they don’t talk about making it making the cat better because hyperthyroidism is all about the thyroid hormones particularly the t4 is the one
We talked about and measure most and as long as that is high the cat isn’t healthy you know the symptoms may go away but the t4 is still going up so you have a cat looking healthier but getting sicker and by the time the condition is worse enough to break through you may have a very very sick firkin now there is at least one study with the homeopathic approach that
Indicated it helped lower the teeth or in some cases but those cases were all borderline t4 or just very very slightly high and in some of those cats the t4 went down on the homeopathic medication well it turns out that a small percentage of cats can have a slightly high t4 and free t4 but not have a tumor in some of the groups we suspected for quite some time that
There were thyroid spikes even though form of officially those didn’t exist dr. mark peterson who is the person who originally diagnosed feline hyperthyroidism and still the number one expert proved 2014-2015 somewhere in that range that some cats do have slightly high numbers but no tumor what causes the high numbers has not yet been determined some foods are
Certain ingredients may be involved in some cases may not right now it’s a crapshoot but my bet is that when the homeopathic approach lower the t4 was probably in cats that did not have a tumor but when the study was done nobody knew that these spikes could happen and unfortunately a lot of vets still don’t know and that is a oh that’s one of the many quirks and
Problems that i will be covering in a separate video but for now use the homeopathic the alternative acupuncture slippery elm oh there are a lot of good things out there that aren’t in the heading of what we call traditional medicine which is a pretty screwy name itself and they do good things when use the right way for the right problem which is true of any kind
Of treatment traditional alternative and sometimes what’s called quackery so good luck do what you can and consider joining the hyperthyroid cats group on facebook it’s a great support group for information or just when you need to vent it’s filled with people who’ve been where you are right now and just keep in mind you can deal with this hyperthyroid cats with
Patient treatment can live a long full happy life and you get to share it so long you
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Feline Hyperthyroidism: About Alternative Treatments By Hyperthyroid Cats
