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- nutritional therapy
- Acupuncture
- Homeopathy
- Phytotherapy
- Hygienic-dietary advice to prevent cancer in your pet
Cancer is a disease that unfortunately appears more and more frequently in our dear pets and whose progress and treatment causes great pain and anxiety, both in our animals and in us.
Dogs also currently suffer from higher levels of stress and are also exposed to a greater amount of toxics through food and the environment, which to some extent explains the increase in malignant tumors in dogs.
There are completely natural therapeutic resources that combined with conventional pharmacological therapy can help alleviate the dog's suffering, protect its body from the damage caused by chemotherapy and more easily overcome cancer, whenever it has a cure, something that unfortunately does not represent 100% of cases.
In this article by PeritoAnimal we explain to you the best alternative therapies for dogs with cancer.
nutritional therapy
Food is uone of the most effective tools to prevent cancer and also to treat it, since therapeutic nutrition will help keep the animal's immune system in good condition so that it can continue to fight the reproduction of cancer cells.
On the other hand, nutritional therapy helps the dog not to fall into a state of malnutrition while undergoing chemotherapy treatment, allowing to conserve structures as important as proteins and muscle tissue.
Also, certain nutritional supplements based on vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, they are of great importance to minimize collateral damage resulting from pharmacological treatment.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture for dogs is a basic pillar of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) applied to pets.
Acupuncture has a very important similarity to other alternative therapies such as homeopathy: it considers that physical illness manifests itself as a consequence of blocked or disturbed vital energy.
Through the insertion of fine needles in the animal's dermis (at anatomical points known as meridians) the regulation of this energy is sought, as well as stimulate the animal's immune system to improve the prognosis and evolution of the disease.
Obviously, as with all the therapies we name in this article, it must be carried out by a veterinarian who is also trained in the therapy in question.
Homeopathy
Homeopathy for animals is one of the alternative therapies that is most frequently used in the veterinary field due to its amazing results.
Homeopathy seeks to stimulate the own curative resources that the animal's body has and is very useful to achieve the following goals in the treatment of cancer in dogs:
- Improve immune system response
- Improve the body's self-regulatory capacity
- Treat pain naturally
- Protecting the body from damage associated with chemotherapy
- Improve the dog's mood
Phytotherapy
Herbal medicine is the medicinal plant therapy, plants that sometimes act as powerfully as pharmaceuticals but in a much more innocuous and respectful way with our dogs' organism.
Medicinal plants can sometimes interact with pharmacological therapy, so the veterinarian must choose those that are compatible with the chemotherapy the animal is receiving.
We can use numerous medicinal plants in the treatment of dog cancer, plants with immunostimulating activity, anti-inflammatory and analgesic plants as well as plants with recognized anticancer activity.
Hygienic-dietary advice to prevent cancer in your pet
- Try to make your dog follow a balanced diet, ecological food is an excellent option
- Under no circumstances should you give your dog sweet food
- Your puppy should exercise daily taking into account its possibilities and limitations.
- Whenever possible, avoid the use of chemical drugs
- Cover all your dog's psychic and social needs to prevent it from manifesting stress or anxiety.
This article is for information purposes only, at PeritoAnimal.com.br we are not able to prescribe veterinary treatments or perform any type of diagnosis. We suggest that you take your pet to the veterinarian in case it has any type of condition or discomfort.