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Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Cats
By Christiane Lhuillier, Italy
People with delicate skin are very sensitive to the action of sunrays and we can observe the same characteristic in white furred animals, particularly in cats. Cats are chilly animals, so they adore staying in the sun. It does not matter how hot it is, and they can sleep and rest for hours under the exposure of the sunrays. The problem appears when a cat has white fur. The most delicate parts of its body are nose and ears, and ears are generally affected first.
The first lesion is represented by an inflam- mation of the skin, which becomes progres- sively harder and the edges of the ears tend to curl. This can be considered a pre-cancerous lesion. At the next level, which can take some years, the cancerous lesion appears in the form of an ulceration, preferring the edge of the ear. The healing tendency is that of forming a crust; the crust persists for a certain time but when it falls, the ulceration is larger than the previous one. Another crust will be formed to fall and leave an even wider and deeper ulceration and so on, until a complete destruction of the tis- sues ensues and, unfortunately, a dissemina- tion of the cancer cells all over the body.
When the crust falls off there is a lot of bleeding also, due to the violent scratching because of the intense itching. A serious anaemia may also be the cause of the death. Over many years I have had several completely
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or predominantly white cats and all of them have developed skin cancer. In one of my very last cases, I succeeded in prolonging life by using a very high sun protection factor, which should be used twice a day to obtain an accept- able result. Aloe Vera gel applied locally can be of great value also. Surgery, if not done proper- ly, can be more dangerous, because of the dis- semination of cancer cells.
Pupo is a white cat with some pinky spots. His mother was Philippa also with a white coat, who died last year from skin cancer beginning in the ear. Pupo, who loves to stay in the sun even in summer, began to present one skin lesion on the left ear two years ago. In 2003 the left ear presented the classical ulceration fol- lowed by the crust and the process of never healing. In a second occurrence the right one also presented the same lesion.
I decided to try to delay as long as possible final excites, by means of homeopathic therapy. But which one might be a good remedy? Considering the kind of inflammation and the process of never healing I thought that X-ray might be the right one. I must say that I always use X-ray for patients following x-ray treatment, in order to avoid ailments from the therapy. It was May 2003 and I only had X-ray 30CH. I put some drops in a glass of water and, after shak-
ing the mixture I put some drops in Pupo’s mouth for a few days and I waited. It took a long time before the crust fell down and, to my great satisfaction the ulceration was just a little bit smaller. In order to enhance the healing process I also used some Aloe Vera gel. Another crust took it’s place and I repeated the remedy for a few days and waited. The right ear lesion, the last one in order of appearance, disappeared quite soon while left ear recovered completely in August 2004; and this is a very dangerous peri- od considering the intensity of the sun.
In July 2005 another cat, Chicco, 14 years old, with white ears, began to present skin inflammation on the edge of the ear. I promptly put him under the same therapy, with immedi- ate recovery.
According to this experience I was in a position to treat two human cases, a farmer presenting with a pre-cancerous lesion and a 55 year old woman who was always using a sun lamp after her second laser therapy, because of relapse of the lesion. Of course, she has been strongly advised to avoid sun lamp exposure as well as the sunrays.
Music to my ears By Henry Stephenson, Australia
Today I saw Rusty, a large Mastiff x dog who pre- sented with an itchy rash around the end of his nose and on the point of his chin. He was also inclined to attack other dogs.
According to his owner, he would tolerate a dog getting too close to his face for a time but then would “nail” them. His owner repeated this statement twice.
As a pup, he accepted other dogs intruding on his personal space, although he was never comfortable with it. As he got older and was attacked a few times by other dogs, he became unpredictable in his response. Now, in the con- sulting room, he was quite friendly in a pushy way, urging me to pat him and pushing at me with his head. When the owner gave him commands like ‘roll over’, he was initially defiant, but then com- plied and enjoyed having his belly rubbed. I quite liked him and found it difficult to see the darker dog she was describing who she said appeared at times of stress.
I think of a homeopathic consultation as being somewhat like a musician playing a tune. To have a pleasing end result, you need a combination of many elements. To start, you need the opening bars of the presenting complaint to get us inter- ested. Next, we need a good steady beat of back- ground information provided by the full case taking. If you interview carefully you will get the different types of drumbeats with the modalities.
If you listen carefully you may hear the attractive unusual tones of the strange, rare or peculiar. We then have our science of repertorisation, which fills in all the orchestral gaps. There must be a melody somewhere, which I think of as ‘magic’ or ‘witch doctoring’ – that alluring, unusual stuff that seems to be given by the energy gods if we listen closely enough. Finally we have the climax of the understanding and fitting together of all the pieces and the giving of the remedy.
In this case, I had an animal with some issues applicable to the fourth row of the periodic table who was named ‘Rusty’ and was nailing other dogs. It was a melody that was alluring and I fol- lowed it for a while. It was very jazzy. Perhaps too free style really. I reached for some steady orchestration from my repertory. Face- eruptions-nose and then face-eruptions-
chin. Ah-no rusty nails in there.
What I am after is for a wonderful hit to
be made and I don’t really mind if it is driv- en by the beat or the structure or the melody, so long as it’s a hit and everyone hears it and feels it. However for today we will just listen to some middle of the road music like ‘eighties greatest hits’ and for- get the jazz. I gave him some Lycopodium to begin with and I will see how he hums along to it. I might try some jazz like Ferrum phos later if he doesn’t hum in tune.