Hi everyone,

I am completely lost and don't know where to go any further with the treatment of my cat. Her name is Marlo and I have been treating her successfully with homoeopathics now for over 8 months. However I feel that I have come to a point where I need some extra help.....

Here is her Case:
H/O herpes in the eye after a long duration of cat flu. Herpes appeared after fight with another cat. Was given several prescriptions of anti biotics and after no avail we turned to more wholistic care...IF ONLY WE HAD DONE THAT FIRST!
OK, so now we have been treating her with Ars Alb 30 twice daily as her picture has fit. The piture has been excessive lacrymation from right eye with acrid discharge, swelling of both lower and upper lids, redness and soreness. No change in behaviour. Just this constant irritation.... So after having given her this for two weeks she had been good but only while we gave the Ars Alb 30 twice daily...if we stopped the dosage the eye would flair up. This makes me wonder if we are palliating. After watching her and her symptoms for a few days without giving AA I gave a dose of sulphur 6x this caused a great aggrevation. My reasons for this is I thought there must be a miasmatic block. My cat is EXTREMELY SENSITIVE!!! Now the picture has changed. We now have had more lacrymation and acrid tears that have caused a sore near the tear duct, the swelling and redness are as they have been in the past, I gave Graphites 30 for two days and the sore has healed. My reason for this is because the sore had begun to crack the skin and cause a lot of pain. So this is where we are at, I am unsure what to do next, the sore has disappeared but the lid has partially closed annd the redness has increased, there are no more tears simply a lot of pain, redness and swelling of the right eye and in particular the eye lids.
I think we are looking at a more syphillitic picture here and I am getting concerned..

Please if anyone has any guidance I would love to hear from you...
Thank you for taking the time to read this....
Nicole....
nlcunningham@hotmail.com

Dear Nicole,

Whenever I treated my cat after fights, where he would develop all sorts of sores and cysts and ulcers and things, he always did best on Silicea - I would give one dose of 30c and it would clear up nicely.

Has your cat been vaccinated for Cat flu? (just in case this is vaccinosis)

I am not sure how you would go about treating the miasm for a cat - are their miasms the same as ours I wonder? Many people also react to Sulphur like this - it may be the psoric miasm or just the broad effect Sulphur has. Better to treat the picture you can see. How has the cat's behaviour changed - do you have any generals or emotional symptoms we can use? Are the lesions on the eye or the eyelid?

Have you considered using Apis?

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

Thank you so much for your reply what an interesting thing to consider are the miasms the same with humans and animals, it poses a bit of a problem ?!? As for the fight it was many many months ago, I did give a dose of the nosode for cat flu and it had no dramatic effect.
As for behavioural changes and emotional changes there are none which is what makes this so hard, hiwevere it is getting to the point that I know she is in pain as she is a lot slower to do things than normal. It look redder and angrier than I have ever seen it, I am wondering if it is an aggrevation from the doses of graphites?
I will consider Apis though....
Thanks
P.S Your name sounds familiar were you at the conference this year in Melbourne???

No, I never made it to the conference - maybe they were talking about me down there (God knows why?)

Which college do you study at?

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

Is she not complaining about the pain?

That may be a peculiar thing. Perhaps opium or arnica? Opium might better suit a general slowness or tendency to want to sleep more. Is she thirsty or not? Hungry or not? Sleepless or sleepy? Does she want more attention or less? Maybe describe her to us, even in the normal state, character-wise. I have always had the best results with animals by treating according to their character.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

I'm studying at Melbourne College of Natural Medicine in Melbourne.

She is quite a distant cat not very affectionate. desires solitude and wants attention only on her terms. She is drinking as usual and eating as usual but is really keeoing to herself, I guess more than normal and is moving very slowly, she is defending herself and making sure we don't touch her eye at all, she seems very 'fragile'. Constitutionally I would think maybe lycopodium although she was given a dose of nat mur by a homeopath early on in the piece and proved the remedy mentally as she became quite affectinate and needy, but that has gone and stopped when she was taken off the remedy.
So yes, overall she is quite selfish and keeps to herself a lot, she hasn't changed in behaviour other than quietly creeping around and keeping us away from the eye....

Dear Nicole,

The behavior seems like Arnica, but Calendula (in potency) is often called for in injuries to eyes.

Good luck,
Snoopy

[ 29. December 2002, 16:38: Message edited by: Snoopy ]

Both Arnica and Ars Alb seem to fit, I feel that I will try Arnica as Ars Alb has been used a lot in the past, I look at Apis however there is no itching with Marlo, although I will keep it in mind. I plan to give her one dose of Arnica 30 tonight, thanks for your help, I'll keep you informed.

One dose of Arnica 30 and she's a different cat! THANK YOU SO MUCH! She is playful, the eye is about 40% better. No weeping, the eye is completely clear, I didn't realise how foggy it looked. She can keep the eye completely open now, as before it was semi-closed. Thank you all so much! She is so much happier
I gave one more dose tonight and we'll see the progress tomorrow. As it is still inflamed and red around the lids, however so much better

Goes to show how important the change in behaviour of the patient is.

Good to hear she is doing better. Keep us informed.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.