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Nico, geriatric patient, 14 years old, male, mixed breed
Introduction
Veterinary homeopathy is a therapeutic alternative that offers significant results in the clinical evaluation of treated animals. The benefits it brings to the patient are numerous, starting with the restoration of the state of mind, followed by the correction of symptoms, the restoration of vital functions and the improvement of organic dysfunction through the impulse that this medicine gives to vital energy.
This scientific medicine with its own doctrine, philosophy and therapeutics has gained an important place in the therapeutic options for the treatment of companion animal diseases and has revolutionised veterinary medicine with its excellent results.
The possibility that a single substance is capable of globalising and reorganising the whole of an organism without affecting any organ and/or system seems incredible. However, whenever veterinary homeopathy has been subjected to experimentation, it has earned the privileged place it deserves by virtue of its results.
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During clinical practice, in the small animal practice, it is common to receive patients suffering from various pathologies, which sometimes manifest themselves simultaneously; thus, in certain individuals with very particular characteristics, you find, on several occasions, that conventional treatments seem contraindicated.
This is the case of Nico, HC# 1777, a geriatric patient treated at home during the Covid-19 pandemic by the Homeovet veterinary clinic in Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Nico is a 14-year-old male x-breed dog, from a family home and with only one guardian, who has taken care of him all his life. He arrived at the clinic with a chronic history of bilateral blindness, since he was five years old, due to a cataract that without a determined cause was generated in the right eye and then affected the left eye. He also suffers from digestive and hepatic ailments and progressive hearing loss.
During the consultation it was established that the animal w--as suffering from various pathologies, some of which were chronic ocular, digestive, hepatic and auditory, and others acute neurological, renal and bronchial.
When starting the treatment, it is also revealed that Nico suffers from Canine Neosporosis, a disease that is usually treated with oral antibiotic therapy for a minimum period of thirty days; however, the substances that are usually used to combat this pathology, such as Clindamycin, Sulfa trimethoprim and Pyrimethamine, are contraindicated in cases of pre-existing hepatic and renal insufficiency.
Epoetin therapy for anaemia is indicated in the conventional treatment of renal failure. Phosphate- conjugating gels containing aluminium hydroxide, cimetidine (5mg/kg) orally 3-4 times/day, oral sodium bicarbonate if acidosis is present, and oral multivitamins B, recombinant erythropoietin or anabolic steroids such as oxymethalone and nandrolon should also be administered orally. In some cases, blood transfusion and haemodialysis are recommended.
Allopathic treatment for canine bronchitis consists of anti- inflammatory agents, glucocorticoid therapy, short-acting steroids such as prednisone or prednisolone at doses of (0.5 - 1mg/kg C/12 hours for 5 - 7 days and bronchodilators, antibiotics, antitussive agents and additional therapy.
Conventional supportive treatment for congestion and liver failure involves the use of specific therapies as appropriate. For example, the use of antibiotics along with
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Homeopathic treatment in geriatric canine patients during the covid-19 pandemic – Diana Carolina Osorio Hernández, MVH, Universidad de la Salle, Colombian Institute of Homeopathy Luis G. Paez. Director of the Homeovet Veterinary Clinic
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