I have no real informed opinion on this...but this thread is from 2007 so doubt you'll get a response

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and the OP was last on 07-09-2008 12:12 PM

so bang goes the thoery that they might log in and see their old post haha

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yes said poorly rodent will be getting all the homeopathic help he needs from his drinking water.

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This is not a game of 'who the fek are you'.

Not a single gram of fek shall be given today.

To add to this, my pets get regular garlic in their food and still get respy now and then and mites too despite there being much 'evidence' to support garlics effect on these type of parasites.

The trouble I have with a lot of hom.remedies is statistics. Rats for example are extremely likely to get respy for all sorts of reasons, allergies, infections, or just being wheezy. I could give ABs or Hom.remedy and see either no effect or good effect. What I can't say is that a)it was an infection that ABs had no effect or b) it was an infection and hom.remedies had a good effect. Hope that comes across right. Sometimes the respyness will go of its own accord and whether it was treated or not would have made no difference, you can't know. Equally a whhezy rat could have a life threatening infection or even pneumonia, this may not be cleared up by AB's as it can be secondary to internal tumours or all sorts but I would never risk it. The side effects of conventional medicines are not enough for me to not take my pets straight to the vets. If a clear and concise diagnosis is made the hom remedies may or may not work in conjunction.

I was once advised by someone fanatical about hom remedies to take my very severely asthmatic daughter off her steroids. That I was in fact killing her and she nearly blew a blood vessel when she found out she had regular flu jabs. My reply? My daughter hasn't had a chest infection in the 2 years since going on her extra steroids. She hasn't had flu or a very bad cold since her flu jabs. If she doesn't have her steroids she will die (asthma kills). I was very polite, recognising some people just aren't listening anyway, I walked away (albeit shaking).

Hom treatments have a place, but not 'in' place of a doctors or a vets. Thats my opinion.

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