Seizures in Pets

Seeing your precious dog or cat can fit most frightening experience. During the removal of animals often lose control, fall, biting teeth, saliva, or spit, whine, paddle down, and begins to urinate or deficate over. Their eyes become large (extended) and unresponsive. Pet Care feels panic and helpless, watching it all happen.
I hope that you and your pet is never, and will never have to experience this shocking event. But, if you have, or if you experience it in the future, this article will help you understand what causes seizures, what can you do while your pet is fit, and various treatment options.
What causes seizures? Epilepsy is one of the reasons. Some dog breeds are more susceptible to epilepsy. These include: cocker spaniels, poodles, collies, German shepherds, Irish setters, golden retrievers, dachshunds, Labrador, St. Bernard, schnauzers, Siberian Husky, and Wirehaired Terrier. Veterinarians are not sure what causes this "hereditary" epilepsy.
In cats hereditary epilepsy is unusual. Veterinarians can usually find the cause of seizures. These include chemical toxins (including chemical preservatives are used in many animal foods), brain tumors, feline leukemia, feline infections, peritonitis, feline AIDS, head injuries, and problems with the liver and kidneys.
In dogs, there are many reasons other than withdrawal of inherited epilepsy. Allergies to foods and chemicals, preservatives and artificial flavors put into food can cause seizures. Other causes include liver and kidney disease, cancer, poisoning, low blood sugar.
What can you do while your pet attack? Try to stay calm. This is hard to do, but using a calm, quiet voice reassuring comfort of your dog or cat. Move any furniture or other objects on which your pet can hurt yourself. If you can not move an object, place pillows or wrap blankets between the animal and the object. Slide something soft under the head of your pet, but be sure to keep your hands and face from his head, so you do not run the risk of possible bites. You can gently stroke his hip or side but to position itself in the opposite side of the foot and nails, as do muscle spasms leg curl into claws that can gouge or rake your skin. Dim light, and save the environment as quiet as possible, eliminating TV and loud music.
Where possible take notes about the seizure, so that you can provide details to the vet. Record the time of the day it happened, the length of each seizure, and the time between each seizure if they are current. Your veterinarian will also want to know whether your pet urinated or deficated, when the seizure hit suddenly or way from simple body twitching, whether your pet regained consciousness, and how long it took before your pet appeared normal. In addition, you need to find out if it may work events. These include loud noises, such as fireworks, unusual items that were eaten, and excessive playing or exercise.
After the capture, pets are usually lost or drugs. It is a state of narcotic intoxication can last from several minutes to several hours depending on the severity of the attack. Your pet may respond to you, but do it in a very slow manner. Since the attacks of debilitating for your pet, he probably wants to sleep after that. It's best to let him sleep, but check on it from time to time without disturbing his peace.
If this is the first attack of your pet, call your veterinarian as soon as possible. Some vets want to see when another seizure occurs, while others will perform grown blood to test for anemia, liver and heart functions, calcium, glucose, and electrolyte levels. Your vet may even run on the screen for possible toxins, take x-rays, or perform an electroencephalogram.
The test results can not show the specific reasons for the arrest. In this case, your veterinarian can not wait to see if another seizure occurs if he / she can offer medicines. If the diagnosis of epilepsy, pets have a great chance to live a normal life, until proper medical care and follow-up are provided.
If you find the cause of the arrest, you may be able to eliminate future seizures by eliminating the source of capture. For example, if the seizure is due to chemical toxins, make sure that your pet is free of toxins as possible. Provide nutrition and human pleasures that do not contain chemical preservatives, fillers or by-products. Clean your house with chemical-free products. In addition, the use of more natural flea, tick and worm prevention products, and some of these products may lower the seizure threshold and make your pet's seizure more difficult to control. Avoid products containing organophosphorus insecticides. To secure the worm prevention, use products containing interceptor and filaribits.
What can you do if your pet's seizure condition can not be cured, and you realize that you and your pet may have to live with the seizures? In the past, the only treatment options available were strong anticonvulsants that could have serious side effects. They still may be your only choice. But, more natural approaches have been found to help some pets, either to the strong medication or in addition to them, so that you may be able to reduce the dose. There are many treatment options that include natural diet, acupuncture, nutritional supplements, homeopathy, herbs, and conventional medications.
As mentioned above, give your pet a person's diet class, free of chemicals and additives. Also, remove other toxins from the environment of your pet. Clean with natural products and use more natural flea, tick, and heartworm prevention measures.
Minimize stress in your pet's life. Try to avoid sudden changes in the environment, loud noises, and other stressful situations.
You can also try herbs that act as sedatives. These include valerian root, coffee, skullcaps and oatstraw. Please note that when using herbs and supplements, you may need to reduce the dose of other anticonvulsants.
Several additions appear to help in the prevention of seizures. Try a combination of antioxidant vitamins C, E, B-6, and selenium. Your veterinarian may recommend a dosage for your pet. Magnesium and DMG (dimethyl glycine) and other useful supplements.
Acupuncture is another good option, which helped to control seizures in many pets. Sometimes you just track the location of acupuncture ear in the dog's ear will stop seizures, and it only requires one acupuncture visit.
If the ear tack does not work, gold implants can be placed in different locations under the animal. Or your pet can be treated with traditional Chinese acupuncture.
As you can see, there are many natural approaches to the treatment of seizures in pets. They have to help a loved pet to live a normal and comfortable life.