DRUG, VACCINE, AND PENICILLIN WARNING

DRUG WARNING

VACCINE WARNING

What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines |What Owners Should Know About Vaccines | Titers - Is Your Vaccinated Dog Protected |

PENICILLIN

Indications | Dosage and Administration | Precautions |

DRUG WARNING

Some Breeds may be allergic to some drugs just like people. There are two types of reaction: immediate and delayed. Watch for possible signs including swelling, fever, rash and itching, vomiting and diarrhea, stiffness, sore feet and joints, inflammation, abdominal tenderness, paralysis, collapse and seizures. Hypertrophic osteodystrophy (HOD), Panosteitis, skin and ear problems may be a reaction to vaccine, especially in young dogs.

Penicillin may be used as a preservative in the vaccine. Please ask the vet questions and get a copy of the label BEFORE the dog is vaccinated. The drug companies change names, so read the labels.

We recommend DHPP only to avoid damage to the immature immune system within the first six months of life. We recommend rabies vaccine without Penicillin and as late as possible.

We do not recommend the following products:

Penicillin

Kelfex (Cephlasporin)

Septra and Albon contain Trimethaprin-sulfa

We recommend you check out everything you give your dog including the treatment for deworming, preventatives for heartworm, etc. Some dogs have reacted to Lymvac, Bordetella, and Lepto vaccine.

Please note adverse reaction to the following drugs:

Streptomycin

Gentamycin

Sulfa Drugs

Penicillins

Cephalosporins

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 Deafness

Deafness,Kidney Damages

Form Crystals in Urine,Anemia,Allergy

Allergy

Kidney Disease

Please spread the word so others will know about possible reactions to antibiotics, and keep records.

VACCINE WARNING

What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines

" Who Killed The Darling Buds of May"

Author: Catherine O'Driscoll (England)

Published 1997

Includes information from Dr. Jean Dodds (USA)

Drug Reactions recorded.

It is important not to over vaccinate your dog, especially the first six months. The breed may be allergic to some drugs, especially Penicillin used as a preservative in the vaccine. (see drug warning).

The more you know will save your pet from a life of misery. Please read and spread the word.

Several allergic reactions have been reported to the National Kuvasz Registry. The breed may be allergic to Penicillin, which is also used as a preservative in some vaccines including rabies. Ask your vet about Anesthesia risk. Too many dogs have died when spayed/neutered,etc. See information on Vaccine/Drug reaction.

Watch for possible signs including elevated temperature (fever), inflammation, swelling, rash and itching, hot spots, vomiting, diarrhea, stiffness, sore feet and joints, abdominal tenderness, paralysis, collapse and seizures, skin, ears, eyes and fertility problems. Hypertrophic Osteodystrophy (HOD) and Panosteitis may be related to vaccine.

What Owners Should Know About Vaccines

For animals previously experiencing adverse vaccine reactions or breeds at higher risk for such reactions (e.g. Weimaraners, Akitas), alternatives to booster vaccinations should be considered. These include avoiding boosters, except rabies vaccine as required by law, annually measuring serum antibody titers against specific canine infectious agents such as distemper and parvovirus and homeopathic nosodes. [This last option is considered an unconventional treatment that has not been scientifically proven to be efficacious. However, data from Europe and clinical experience in North America support its use, and controlled studies are underway to test the method under challenge conditions. If veterinarians choose to use homeopathic nosodes, their clients should be provided with an appropriate disclaimer and written informed consent should be obtained.]

Titers - Is Your Vaccinated Dog Protected

There are presently three labs in the US who do titer testing. Dr. Jean Dodds is one of them.

A distemper titer

parvo titer

IGB titer

Jean Dodds recommends that a bitch should be tested before breeding, and it should be done on a yearly basis.

Have your vet get in touch with Dr. Dodds at Tel: 310-828-4804 or Fax: 310-828-8251.

Ask about SBGA and Echinacea purpurea/Echinacea augustifolia as a booster to their immune system if the dogs are not quite right. The SBGA is a much more dependable and PROVEN supplement, and Echinacea has benefits as well.

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Vaccinosis

" Vaccinosis - the malaise (fever, muscular aches, bone pain, prostration, etc.) as the result of being vaccinated."

Definition from A Dictionary of Homeopathic Medical Terminology

Interesting Comments

While the conventional veterinary community might protest any claim that there is a connection between the vaccinations and the tumor, something inside you knows differently. What a vaccination is supposed to do is mimic the process of disease itself. When a weakened version of a virus is injected into the body, the immune system is " tricked" into producing antibodies and the T-cells and B-cells that protect the body against a particular disease. If the animal is exposed to the virus in the future, the body remembers the virus and responds with the appropriate antibodies.

John Fudens, DVM, says he does not have a problem with the concept of vaccination, " The problem I have is with the method. An injection is totally unnatural and artificial procedure. No disease, short of being bitten by a rabid dog, is injected by needle. What happens, in this case, is that the disease totally bypasses the natural mechanism that is set up by the mouth and the respiratory system to resist most communicable diseases."

Richard Moskowitz, MD, in his remarkable article, " The Case Against Immunization", carries this observation further by pointing out that the creation of circulating antibodies " is only one, and by no means the most important" of the mechanisms by which the body handles a viral attack. In fact, he says, if we vaccinate, we have short circuited very important primary responses to disease and have " accomplished what the entire immune system seems to have evolved in order to prevent: we have placed the virus directly into the blood, and given it free and immediate access to the major immune organs and tissues without any obvious way of getting rid of it."

Also, what vaccination protocols fail to take into consideration is the unique state of an animal's immune system. We can never know how long whatever protection is gained from the vaccination will last or even if it will be effective. The only true immunity occurs when an animal gets a disease and survives. It is then immune to that particular disease for life.

Dr. Fudens points out that " with the natural disease process, the virus or bacteria doesn't include the antibiotics or the fungicides that are used to protect the vaccine against bacterial contamination. And it doesn't include aluminum sulfate, mercuric oxide, or any of the chemical substrates that are used to carry the virus particles into the body in the injection procedure. And certainly you don't have the multitude of viruses coming in as one group or one entity. You pick them up one at a time. So when you have four, five, six or even seven viruses, it's a totally unnatural process."

Dr. Fudens prefers to stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies with the use of homeopathic nosodes, disease substances that are diluted to the point where only the " energy" of the disease is left. " It still accomplishes the same thing", he says, " but you don't have the other contaminants which cause all the types of damage we see."

Dr Fudens, who has practiced veterinary medicine for over twenty five years, says that the worst reactions to vaccinations he sees are to the feline leukemia vaccine. " These animals will come in with severely depressed immune systems. They will actually mimic the disease they were vaccinated for. I vaccinated with the leukemia vaccination when it first came out, and I can't tell you how many cats came back, and I'd swear they had leukemia. " Every skin problem you see is due to vaccinations, without fail. Later on in life, arthritic situations and degenerative spinal diseases are the result of vaccinations. And I am convinced that FUS in cats is also vaccination related. The rabies vaccination in dogs and cats causes so many problems it isn't funny. It causes personality changes, skin changes, and damages the thyroid and endocrine systems. It lowers the immune system tremendously, and after that, of course, the animal becomes fair game for just about any disease."

In addition to seeing the side effects of vaccinations experienced by individual animals, many homeopaths question whether or not conventional vaccinations are producing a population wide suppression of disease that has serious implications for the future health of all creatures. What is clear, according to Jeffrey Levy, DVM, is that a pattern exists where we see the elimination of one disease (feline distemper for example, or smallpox in humans) followed by the emergence of a worse disease (feline leukemia for cats, AIDS for humans). While one can place any kind of interpretation one wants on these facts, says Levy, the pattern is quite clear.

In responding to the claim that side effects of vaccinations are a necessary evil for the greater good of society, Dr Levy states " It's not the greater good. You're protecting the individuals artificially, and in doing so, degrading the health of the population at large."

Richard Moskowitz, in the essay previously mentioned, seems to support Levy's assertion: " At the bottom, I have always felt that the attempt to eradicate entire microbal species from the biosphere must inevitably upset the balance of nature in fundamental ways we can, as yet, scarcely imagine. The fact is that we have been taught to accept vaccination as a sort of involuntary communion, a sacrament of our own participation in the unrestricted growth of scientific and industrial technology, utterly heedless of the long term consequences to the health of our species let alone to the balance of nature as a whole."

While Dr. Levy recommends the use of homeopathic nosodes to his clients, he says that there are limitations to vaccinating even with these side effect free remedies. " The nosodes are effective and safe, but what they are doing essentially is putting a bandaid over a susceptibility. Somewhere down the line, you are going to have to deal with that susceptibility in one disease form or another. So, from my perspective, the alternative to using nosodes is to treat the case constitutionally (the use of single remedies that match the total symptom picture of the chronic or acute state of health). When you do this, you improve the immunity, resistance to disease, and so forth. Basically, it offers the same and perhaps greater protection than the nosodes, but it does it from the inside out rather than pasting a bandaid over the top."

Deciding not to vaccinate or to use the homeopathic nosodes can be difficult. W. Jean Dodds, DVM, (see vaccination protocol) has begun studies on the effectiveness of nosodes funded in part by the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association. Hopefully, some solid evidence that these remedies work will give people alternatives to the legally required conventional vaccines. But of course, even the nosodes, as free from side effects as they are, do not guarantee absolute freedom from disease. Only a perfectly healthy creature, human or animal, can consider this possibility. So, making a decision implies taking more responsibility for your cat's health. Such responsibility will probably involve nutritional support as well as alternative methods of dealing with viral and bacterial infections should they arise.

Consider Before You Vaccinate (Tiger Tribe Sept/Oct 1992)

If you vaccinate with conventional vaccines, try not to allow your vet to use anything but a killed vaccine (however, this option may not always be available). Modified live vaccines are considered the most dangerous by experts in immunology. They have the ability to replicate and then mutate in the body and are banned in Scandanavian countries.

Although it might be less expensive, do not vaccinate for several diseases at once. The rabies vaccine especially should be given separately from other vaccines (6 week intervals).

If you vaccinate conventionally, consider using homeopathic remedies to counteract any potential adverse affects from the conventional vaccines. Jeff Levy, DVM, recommends that the appropriate nosode, (made from the disease you are vaccinating for), be given immediately after the vaccination. The next day, give Thuja 30C, followed one week later by Sulphur 6X for one week. In most states, the only " required" vaccination is rabies. The appropriate nosode for this would be Lyssin30C.

Don't vaccinate for feline leukemia. Dr. Levy has pointed out that there is a great deal of evidence that this vaccine is both dangerous and ineffective.

Don't vaccinate if an animal is in poor health, pregnant, undergoing surgery, or especially when also receiving a corticosteroid injection for allergies.

If you decide to use the nosodes, you will need to contact a veterinarian who uses homeopathy in his/her practice. While most homeopathic remedies are available over the counter, the nosodes are availble only by prescription

Killed Versus MLV Vaccine (Pure-bred Dogs/American Kennel Gazette)

Dr Christine Wilford's comments about vaccines in the Veterinary News section of the June Gazette were timely and important. I'd like to provide further considerations for your readers about the killed versus modified live virus (MLV) vaccine issue.

The risks posed by MLV vaccines were reviewed in a landmark paper by Tizard (JAVMA, Vol.196, 1851-1858, June 1990). It is well recognized by experts in the field that a properly constituted killed vaccine is always preferable to one of MLV origin. The primary reasons (for this preference) reflect safety to the host and the environment. Killed vaccines do not replicate in the vaccinated animal, do not carry the risk of residual virulence, and do not shed attenuated viruses into the environment. Furthermore, killed vaccines do not bear the risk of contamination with adventitial viruses present in the tissue culture cells used to grow MLV vaccines.

Finally, Dr Wilford's statement that " modified live parvo vaccines pose no threat to dogs" is simply overstated. They can trigger autoimmune disorders of blood cells (platelets, red blood cells), bone marrow failure, and immunosuppression in genetically or physiologically susceptible animals. Vaccines, while necessary and generally safe and effacacious, can be harmful or ineffective in selected situations.

W. Jean Dodds, DVM HEMOPET 938 Stanford Street Santa Monica, CA 90403 Tel:

310-828-4804 Fax: 310-828-8251.

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