Guest guest Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Does anyone have any info on detoxing pets??? There used to be a mold and pet site but it is down. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Search under my username - katsdream17 for info on how I detoxed my dog. > > Does anyone have any info on detoxing pets??? There used to be a mold > and pet site but it is down. Thanks > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Should I search the archives of this group, or the web? Thanks --- In , " katsdream17 " <katsdream17@...> wrote: > > Search under my username - katsdream17 for info on how I detoxed my dog. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Thank you very much for posting the information. My dog has recently been diagnosed with bad allergies, which I am assuming is from the mold exposure, and maybe candida (or whatever). We have had her on abx, and now doing antifungals, she is having a harder time with those, so I know there is a problem with infection there. I did get some info from the silverpets group on detoxing dogs pets ingeneral, but was looking for more specific info on mold. Thank you again! > > > > Does anyone have any info on detoxing pets??? There used to be a mold and pet site but it is down. Thanks > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 I think i heard of one time someone used cholestyramine to detox their pet. But not sure if im correct. From: barb1283 <barb1283@...> Subject: [] Re: Detoxing pets Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 9:18 PM Should I search the archives of this group, or the web? Thanks --- In , " katsdream17 " <katsdream17@ ...> wrote: > > Search under my username - katsdream17 for info on how I detoxed my dog. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 If your pet has been exposed to mold, then cholestyramine is the best bet. There is more data for animals than humans on cholestyramine and mycotoxins. Its been reserached extensively for use in food animals because they tend to eat mycotoxn-contaminated feed and that contaminates the meat, so they need a way to get it out. Thypically, they will add up to several percent of 'adsorbents " to their feed.. (a lot) until the mycotoxin level gets low enough to sell the animals. (to be used in food) Not suggesting people eat their pets.. just giving people an idea of where to find the animal husbandry research..and what its about... Cholestyramine is the best adsorbent but its expensive, but you need much less and it adsorbs far more mycotoxins than all the others.. ASK YOUR VET TO FIGURE OUT THE BEST DOSE FOR YOUR SPECIFIC PET... Other poisons, like household chemicals, might require different detoxification strategies.. Activated charcoal is good to save the life of pets in a wide variety of toxic ingestion scenarios.. n-acetylcysteine helps with others, milk-thistle helps with some other poisons.. It depends how the specific toxin is metabolized and where.. Complicated subject. hard to generalize, serious consequences for making mistakes, so ask vet! On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:53 PM, E E <photoguys2003@...> wrote: > I think i heard of one time someone used cholestyramine to detox their pet. > But not sure if im correct. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 Thanks for all the suggestions. I have CSM powder but wouldn't know how to dose these things but there is a holistic vet I could call. He is 45 minutes away but if he is familiar it would be worth the trip. Dogs require different things than people, and cats different than dogs things they can tolerate so can be tricky. Certainly there must be something. I have heard of things for dogs, but not sure if they will translate over to cat. I think she may have gotten a load of toxins from house before it was cleaned up, like I did but has been exaserbated by perhaps flea products. I use them as limited as I can but she does try and sometimes perhaps succeeded in ingesting some of them, and of course some just go through her skin, so I think causing toxic overload is my guess. She is displaying nervous system disorder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 Barb, Good luck on her. Pets are very important. Cats can also pick up a lot of bad things orally because of the way they wash themselves. Make sure you tell the vet everything you know, especially about the lead dust, if your cat is also in the same house as you were then. They will probably want to do some kind of bloodwork.. Do you know what pesticides/flea meds were used exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 I usually didn't have to use much flea medicine on him and he was okay. It's supposed to be flea oil drops on back of his neck once a month. I used to do it once every 3 months without problem. However you know I was out of my house for a year...hard to believe. I took Cinnamon but he was so afraid of new place he wouldn't eat or drink and hide in closet so I decided to take him back to house and leave pet door open for him, and put his food down daily when I came to pick up mail and check on house, and neighbor cat was always there visiting, came in through pet door. I didn't think anything of it, since he visited often for years. Only thing was this time HE WASN'T GOING HOME AT ALL ANYMORE. I didn't know that so he wasn't getting treated for fleas as my cat was, so became very flea infested and whole house became very flea infested. It took such little time to scoop out litter, put food and water down and pick up mail, nothing clued me in until I moved home the end of last summer. By then house was really bad. I got bitten sleeping in my bed, so I used more flea product than normal, on cats, on furniture, on carpet but no bombs but still... Over the winter seemed to be gone but when spring came they started biting again, so I threw out all carpeting, big job! Now they are gone but much more product used than normal but I followed directions on use. HOWEVER since Cinny was exposed to mold toxins like me, it may have put him 'over the top'. Basically both cats have suffered similarly to me. I used Frontline which is considered the safest by most vets but I used other products on furniture, and some time when it looked like pet was getting bitten anyway, I'd spray some extra product on their backs...because fleas carry disease, they aren't just irritating. I will treat Cinnamon like I have myself, alternatively, as the vets say his condition can't be solved, which is what doctors say about almost everything I've ever gone to them for..symptomatic relief. Thanks for asking about him. --- In , LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote: > > Barb, > > Good luck on her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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