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First Aid and Emergency Care

No one likes to think of our pets facing a medical emergency, but having the proper
preparation can keep you calm. Staying calm will help you assess the situation. What
you first think is an emergency may not truly be one. For example, an animal hit by a
car is an emergency, and a broken/bleeding toe nail is probably not.
Proper preparation is first having a phone number on hand to call a nearby veterinary
hospital and/or a hospital that is a 24 hour service, and second, having a first aid kit avail-
able at home. Many minor scraps and bruises can be treated at home very effectively.
A home first aid kit should include
• A homeopathic remedies kit. There • Essential oils which support heal-
are several kits which have 15 to 30 or ing everything from burns, to infec-
more remedies which will treat a variety tions, to emotional situations,
of situations. You don’t have to be a • Adhesive tape,
board certified homeopath to understand • Scissors,
•
Gauze,
and choose the correct remedy for acute • A topical antibiotic ointment to
upsets. For example- arnica ( and for the support abrasions, scrapes and minor
most part I will recommend a potency of lacerations,
30C for your home kit) is an excellent • Artificial tears - eye injuries are
remedy for sprains-strains and minor best evaluated by a professional, but
injuries. Nux vomica can be helpful for putting tears in the eye is not going
gastro-intestinal upsets. Most kits will to harm until you can have the eye
include a list of remedies and what they examined.
are used for, so be familiar with those in
your possession.

These are only a few items you may consider in your home emergency kit, depending
on your level of medical knowledge and your specific family needs. Know when it's
time to home treat, when it's time to go to a close-by veterinary hospital, and when it's
time to treat and then follow up with your local veterinarian.
Dr. R.E. Neubauer, the Natural Pet Dr. can be reached by email at naturalpetdr@gmail.com, or
at his new location: Mt. Healthy Animal Hospital, 2818 Blue Rock Rd., Cincinnati
513-931-9127.
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