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hunched up. He improved but continued to urinate a thinnish stream with his back arched a little and then finished again by urinating drop by drop.
Everything got worse again since he got into some cold water yesterday. He seemed better when we took him for a long walk. When he lies down, some urine flows without him noticing. He feels silly then. He drags his hind legs a little and trips over at times.
He is worse when we quarrel at home.’
Based on the sympathetic character of this dog who still mostly serves his own purpose, the paresis and bladder issues (leaking unnoticed, cannot urinate when tries),
the vet prescribed:
One dose of Causticum 30C.
The next day all is fine: bladder and locomotion issues are resolved. (He had a small bout of diarrhoea after the Causticum)
He continues to do well, even more so now that the owners have decided not to quarrel anymore to stop upsetting their dog.
Two years later, his back end became paralysed. One dose of Causticum 1M got him up quickly allowing to run around normally again. He died 2 years later.
A grieving Gander. (Ulrich Stach, Germany)
He is brought in because his legs are paralysed and lost their superficial and deep sensation. The client asks: ’’Is he doomed to go in the pot or can you do something?’’
The gander was bought three weeks prior but then his female companion escaped and he spent days calling for
her. The calling stopped when he lost his voice. He ate less and less and developed some sort of cough. The larynx is inflamed and red but there are no secretions. Then, he slowly became paralysed.
The vet writes that a choice exists between Nat mur and Causticum for this case. But the slow progression from sadness, to paresis of the larynx to paralysis of the legs is most typical for Causticum. One injection of 200C.
Three days later he is eating again and can walk. He recovers completely and avoids being eaten that Christmas.
Haemorrhagic gastroenteritis. (Philipps Osdoit, France)
A 2.5 month old male Labrador developed gastro-enteritis the day after he was bought from a shop. The owner returned to the shop where they wormed him, gave him ‘antiviral-serotherapy’ and an antibiotic.
Two days later: he vomits blood and produces a haemorrhagic diarrhoea with increasing frequency. He does not eat, he is thin, prostrated, hypothermic. He lies on his abdomen with his head up in the air, the ventral part of the neck pressed against the wall.
Stomach, pain bending backwards amel (Kent: bell, bism, caust, kalic) both Bell and Caust have blood in their faeces but Causticum is in the rubric, lack of vital heat.
A drip with Ringer lactate is set up and Causticum 7C is diluted in water and given regularly. 1Hr after the first dose the vomiting stops. The next days he starts to eat and the 3rd day he is back to normal. He eats some of the paper in his kennel and vomits some froth and passes a soft stool again. A third dose of the Causticum and he is fine.
He is well for 8 days. He then twice comes back from the garden with little non-itchy blisters all over his belly. The weather has suddenly gone cold.
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