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03-21-2009, 01:34 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 4000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Iowa
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| Damp-heat diagnosis from our holistic vet Today we went to the vet for health certificates - a couple hundred dollars later - we walk out & Roxy was diagnosed with damp-heat at the skin level. I go to a holistic vet & I asked what it was, he said it was a Chinese term - but I didn't get a lot more information from him - as it was crazy there today. Has anyone else ever dealt with this? I have been reading online - and apparently damp-heat can effect many different parts of the body. Roxy is now on Si Miao San powder - it will be mixed with her food. She has been licking & chewing her paws - I have been trying to figure out if she had a food allergy or if it was habit. I have been all over the place with trying to figure out if it was food allergy - some of you may have read my previous threads. They were on Innova (which I like for many reasons) but the paw licking got bad - they were both doing it to a point. But you should see Roxy's legs - she has so little hair left. And this is even after I switched them to Merrick's Before Grain -- I had them on this for months, but their poos were so much bigger, I thought something else was going on with that food. Also, I wanted to switch the food again because I thought what if it is chicken she is allergic to - so we bought a small bag of Wellness Core Ocean Formula - the only dry food without grains or chicken that I could find. Well, both my dogs got constipated on this & the blackest poo I have ever seen. So, this week after finishing off the Wellness with some canned pumpkin every day - I went & bought Innova Red Meat - thinking if it's the chicken, and not grains we should be ok. But I think her licking has increased this week. Now with today's diagnosis - I told the vet how I had switched foods & somehow I still left without a definitive answer about the grains. But I just read something online that says with damp-heat the dog should definitely have a grain-free diet. So, I'm off to the store again! I'm just kicking myself, because I wish i had bought the Sojo's Europa when I was at the vet - but I'm getting ready to travel & thought making that would be more of a pain while I'm out of town. Now I want it & when I was at the pet food store the other day all they had was the huge bags - which would take us at least a year to go thru. I will also be interested to see - if what I thought was leather ear clears up a bit more for Roxy. Really, it's the bridge of her nose more than her ear right now - but I'm sure she had leather ear last winter. The vet had done a short term skin scrapping in December & hadn't found anything. Oh, the other thing was the vet tech mentioned how hot Roxy's body was - I thought she was talking that Roxy might have a fever - but she didn't have one. This has to do with the damp-heat too, I think. What a difference to hold my 2 yorkies - Bubba feels cool & Roxy's body was a heat box today - I'm hoping I get her off the grains again & with the chinese herb we will see a difference quickly sorry so long
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03-22-2009, 06:44 PM | #2 |
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| anyone? I guess this is a term humans might be diagnosed with too - well if you are seeing someone who practices Chinese medicine/holistic
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03-22-2009, 07:41 PM | #3 |
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| I've had some experiences with Chinese herbals, and know quite a food dogs who have been helped by them... They had problems ranging from neuro/seizures to allergies to liver issues.... Google TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) or TCVM (Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine), you should be able to find some info..... Did your vet not make any diet recommendations? The Chinese also have different theories on foods. Google Chinese Food Therapy. I'd ask your vet, because I can't remember which is which, but I wanna say that a dog with a Heat condition shouldn't eat "hot" foods (which include chicken, venison, lamb... which are actually all in EVO Red Meat) |
03-22-2009, 08:33 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 4000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Iowa
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| Well, I did end up getting the Sojos Grain-free & returned the Innova Red Meat. I read some online about the heat/hot foods - but I found conflicting info. One vet definitely said go grain free. Another said a hot food was turkey - but elsewhere I saw this wasn't true. My vet is closed on Monday. But I will be getting in touch with him to clarify. Thanks for replying!
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