Posts Tagged ‘diarrhea’
Monday, June 13th, 2011
If you share your life with a dog, or a cat, you may have found the world of nutritional supplements to be a confusing impenetrable jungle. In fact, most people are so confused that they often resort to the extremes. They either use no supplements at all or fill their kitchen cabinets and counters with dozens of bottles. Almost everyday I am asked by clients for an opinion about supplements and my curiosity has led me to explore the supplement world which often reminds me of sailing uncharted ocean waters.
Many people believe that if they feed good quality food or the best natural food that their dogs or cats diet will be complete. This is not true.
Intensive agriculture has caused a severe degree of soil mineral and nutrient depletion which has caused deficiencies in the whole food chain including plants, herbivores and finally carnivores. We have seen sailors dying of scurvy, iodine deficiency causing goiter, vitamin B deficiency causing beri-beri, a neurologic disease and death. It is a paradox that most people and even medical practitioners do not ask the (more…)
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
One of my friends recently called me asking for help. Their dog wasn’t eating for three days, was vomiting and his tummy was sensitive and a little firmer than normal. As I was asking for more details to help the husband and wife they confessed that years back they lost another dog to pancreatitis and they feared the worst again.
It didn’t take me long to make a decision to write a blog on pancreatitis as I realize it’s one of the most commonly misunderstood conditions. Out of curiosity I decided to do a little survey on Facebook to see what your opinion was and it confirmed that after the topic of general puppy care, pancreatitis is the second most questioned topic.
From my point of view, pancreatitis in other words, the inflammation of the pancreas, is a result of multiple (more…)
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Sunday, February 20th, 2011
So many of us are concerned about the current state of medical system and the fact that the governments of many countries are crumbling under the burden of skyrocketing medical costs.
More then a half of most countries’ budgets goes to the healthcare. Thousands of people and animals are dying unnecessarily from the side-effects of drugs.
How can we make a difference and change this situation. How can we help those who do not believe this understand
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
I have always loved the cleverness of the “Magic School Bus” – one of the most ingenious educational programs to date. Today, I would like to invite you on a journey through the digestive tract of two very different groups; herbivores and carnivores to see why nature, unlike processed food junk companies, believes that raw food is the way to go. If you yourself unsure about raw food or have a friend who you try to educate. This blog post may be helpful.
Lets look at the cow – a herbivore. It has three fore stomachs and one stomach to digest and ferment plant material, grain and fiber. A horse represents a slight variation of this design. For a horse it would be very hard to run fast with a big fore stomach full of food. Instead, horses have a large colon that also digests and ferments plant material and fiber.
The digestive tract of carnivores is very different. It is shorter, equipped with a smaller but stronger stomach and relatively short intestines. The digestive glands of the stomach and especially pancreas are larger and produce large amounts of protein digestive enzymes. Carnivores do not have the ability to process fiber through fermentation as well as herbivores. (more…)
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
What to do when your dog ingests a foreign body?
A friend of mine called me recently and was very upset. This was the second time his dog Barkley had eaten a mango pit. The first time, he threw it up, but this time, it stayed down for more than a week.
The local vet recommended surgery and my friend was not really happy about slicing Barkley’s stomach open. He called me to see if there was anything else we could do.
The pit was large and flat and it was unlikely to go further than the stomach. I thought if we made Barkley throw up, it could get stuck in the esophagus. We had to find a way that would make the mango pit slippery enough to make it slip out without complications.
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