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I just checked, too and sure enough, Stalin's airbrush strikes again.

There's more of a liability issue to that thread than the other, hypothetical Addison's patient.

This has been such an education for me!!
 
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Were the calves Stalined a bit ago? I could link to the thread about twenty minutes ago, but when I went to go reread it again, it seems to be gone.

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Hi



I have a farmer friend who is devastated by a recurrent problem of_ 7 week old cows coming down with a temperature, blood in the stools before getting a gushing white diarrhea, and a lot of them dying in the process.



antibiotics have been of no help.



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Looking at this I would suggest that your friend tries
the remedy ARSENICUM ALBUM.

This remedy would cover the fever, with blood in the
stools and the copious white diarrhoea too.

Try putting 6c pelletts in the drinking water and
seeing if this helps. A 6c is quite a low dose, so it
may need a 30c.


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thank you for answering...



at this age, these young cows are getting 1.5 liter - 2 liter bottle feeding so many times a day..... 9 mini globules in a one only 2liter bottle?_ that ok...



thanks a lot for your help.



30c is already a one time dosage, i take it?



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Yes, that is fine.

30C is not a one off dose, but in an acute situation
such as this can be repeated as needed until
recovery.

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Hi, H'pathy, this is Rolfe._ The real Rolfe, not the earlier cheap substitute.



I see that once more Naturalhealth (who is no more an MFHom than Bach is) has jumped into a thread and posted a remedy suggestion with virtually no case details._ This certainly seems to be to be a blatant breach of a couple of your rules._ I quote:



3. Homeopaths who reply to patient's queries should not throw medicines in the ring without having a proper case. Any person giving medical/homeopathic advice to anyone will have to give proper reasons for their selection of remedy and potency or their advice. Just saying “Take a dose of Belladona 30” or “Try a dose of Lycopodium 200” will not do. You will need to explain your remedy and potency selection (through reportorial rubrics and totality, excerpts from materia medicas or previous posts etc.). Also, if you disagree with someone’s suggestion, you can’t just say, “I don’t agree with this suggestion”. You will need to specify why you disagree. We intend that the discussion in the case discussion forum must be used to improve the knowledge of the patients and the homeopaths here. We will try to delete all such posts that do not confirm to this rule, even if the suggestions are correct.



4. Any person found suggesting combination medicines or multiple medicines or making suggestions without having proper case details is liable to receive suspension. All remedy and potency suggestions should be justifiable.



These rules seem eminently sensible to me._ As a vet, I must express my hope that you don't intend them to apply only to human patients, but that innocent animals will also be protected from such incompetence._ Not to mention the fact that as a UK resident Naturalhealth is breaking the law (namely, the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966) in attempting to prescribe for an animal when she is not a qualified veterinary surgeon._ And the fact that should be obvious to anyone with any medical knowledge at all that even knowing no more about the case, it's obvious the one thing that has to be done is to discontinue the milk feeding and get the calves immediately on to oral rehydration therapy._ However, Naturalhealth simply suggests putting a few sugar pills into the milk._ This is not good, by any standards._ I trust that Naturalhealth's well-deserved suspension will not be long delayed.



Love and kisses,



Rolfe.



PS._ By the way, although I didn't post it, I believe that the point of this thread was to see what Naturalhealth would really do with a case involving a non-individualised group of calves with diarrhoea._ You see, over on Randiland, she objected to a well-designed study in which a group of diarrhoeic calves which only got a placebo got better slightly quicker than the other half of the group who were treated homoeopathically, in the following terms:



"I have not read the calf diarrhea paper at all, however, I would wonder whether Podophylum is in any way the right remedy for this anyway. A test like this will never work, as the remedy has not been individualised at all and all the calves may need a different remedy to the one given. Idividualisation. That is what homeopathy is all about."



Well, didn't she just rise to the bait!_ The Podophyllum paper ( http://www.slu.se/forskning/amne/vetmed/vettidn/2001/SVT 1 4%20-01%201.pdf) has a lot of detail about the animals, even some photographs._ But no, "not enough individualisation."_ Then when she thinks she's on safe home ground, she sees fit to prescribe on a two-line history that doesn't even tell us whether the calves are with their mothers, sucking, or separated from them on artificial feeding; whether they are indoors or out; what differences can be seen between the ones that died and the ones that survived the illness...._ ARSENICUM ALBUM, regardless!



Nice one, Naturalhealth!



By the way, this thread has now also been saved, so delete it at your leisure.



Edited for spelling.


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Just to let you all know, this post has come from the
trouble makers at Randiland and is deliberate.

The question that was posted has come from a
paper that was on HOMEOPATHY where calves with
diarrhoea were treated with the homeopathic remedy
PODOPHYLUM.

This question is therefore nul and void and is a
complete waste of time. Anyone can see this paper
and look it up and see what these calves were
treated with.

This is what the Randipathetic spend their time
doing then is it? They seem to have so much time to
waste as well.

If you want proper advice on the homeopathic
treatment of animals, then I suggest that you post
more of your questions on the Animal board and I
am sure that Wim would be only too pleased to help
you out that is always assuming that you have a
genuine question. Not.

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The point NH is your non-homeopathic prescribing.

I do not know whether the questioner is legit or a troll. If they are
legit then you are in breach of UK law (remember, even JanZy has
acknowledged my eye for liability issues), but even if they are not,
you answered on the basis that it was a legitimate question and
revealed a deeply non-homeopathic reaching for an instant non-
individualised remedy on the basis of a two-line history. The irony
really is that a conventional vet would have taken a properly holistic
approach to the problem and you have displayed the worst kind of
knee-jerk prescribing that homeopaths accuse real medicine of
perpetrating. If you want to see 'holism' embodied, speak to a good
farm vet, it really is what they do.

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I thought you trolls were restricted to the scientific forum, now you have begun to infest us again all over the place?



Save whatever you like in your hard disc - is that a threat to us?



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What an idiot you really are.

I was giving homeopathic advice only and nothing
else and there is nothing unhomeopathic about the
way any of us practices.

Perhaps you need to learn a thing or two about
homeopathy before you start coming here and trying
to discuss it, badly, thinking that you know a thing or
two.

You really don't at all.

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Naturalhealth wrote:




I was giving homeopathic advice only and
nothing
else and there is nothing unhomeopathic about the
way any of us practices.



And where exactly is the individualisation, indeed where exactly is
your attempt to obtain a fuller history? When is indiviualisation
necessary? When you want to criticise a paper whose results you
don't like. When is individualisation unnecessary? When you think no
one is looking.

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Well, if you are so interested in that aspect of
homeopathy, then I can recommend some very good
books that you can read.

You can also consult Wim who treats all kinds of
animals with homeopathy on a daily basis. He is
somewhat of an expert in this area.

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Naturalhealth wrote:




Well, if you are so interested in that aspect
of
homeopathy, then I can recommend some very good
books that you can read.



What aspect of homeopathy? The logically inconsistent aspect? The
being caught out trying to have it both ways aspect?

Face it NHCoraHS you've been caught out, just as you have been with
your
various claims over homeopathic and medical qualifications you
don't have. Why do you think the mods here don't think you are a
homeopath? I suggest you re-read the Admin posts. You can't
maintain the pretence of being as a doctor, perhaps you're a
homeopath-wannabe...at all.

Before you go all injured innocence on us, can I just remind everyone
else that you told bare-faced lies about not posting here at
Hpathy...at all.

(Edited to add: "Although I have looked at the Hpathy forum, I have
never posted there myself, but am now thinking about registering.
When I looked initially, there were lots of 'trolls' posting there and
the whole thing seemed to disintegrate into a slanging match, so I
was put off. Now the discussions are more focussed on helping
people homeopathically, I may well decide to go and register there."

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/
showthread.php?s=&postid=1870508197&highlight=hpathy#post18
70508197)

Just in case Snoopy is reading this. NHCoraHS does raise my index of
suspicion about the level of wilful deception in the homeopathic
community.

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Well, I have to say that what I did at Randiland was
totally and utterly deliberate and I was playing you at
your own game as you have done here so many
times. I admit to 'trolling'. I was giving you a taste of
your own homeopathic medicine.___HAPPY NOW?!!!!!!


As for the rest, no lie at all and I really do not care
what anyone thinks either, least of all you are your
little troll friends from Randipathetics!!!

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Naturalhealth wrote:




Well, I have to say that what I did at
Randiland was
totally and utterly deliberate and I was playing you at
your own game as you have done here so many
times. I admit to 'trolling'. I was giving you a taste of
your own homeopathic medicine.

Except you were spotted and identified almost immediately under
both HS and Cora identities. That's not trolling

As for the rest, no lie at all



"at all"? Of course not. We believe you "doctor".

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Okay.....whoa.....hold the presses!_ Quote *Rolfie* post on 4 July......."As a vet, I must express my hope that ......"._ What?_ As a VET?_ No kidding._ And your practice is so limited that you have this kind of time to waste?_ Not one vet I know has that kind of spare time._ If you indeed are a vet, though obviously not a busy one, it does very well explain a great deal._ Allopathic vets are very concerned about patients moving away from_practices that they know_have endangered their animals for so long and that would be cause for your attacking that which threatens your income.


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As a wise person once said, "follow the money"._ Homeopathy is less expensive than allopathy, eliminating multiple, multiple visits and multiple, multiple vaccinations/drugs and then more visits to *cure* the diseases caused by the multiple vaccinations/drugs......all very lucrative to vets and very damaging to pets.


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So, where do you practice veterinary medicine, Rolfie?_ What homeopathic vets are challenging your income in your backyard?!


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Georgianna wrote:




Okay.....whoa.....hold the presses!_ Quote *Rolfie* post on 4 July......."As a vet, I must express my hope that ......"._ What?_ As a VET?_ No kidding._ And your practice is so limited that you have this kind of time to waste?_ Not one vet I know has that kind of spare time._ If you indeed are a vet, though obviously not a busy one, it does very well explain a great deal._ Allopathic vets are very concerned about patients moving away from_practices that they know_have endangered their animals for so long and that would be cause for your attacking that which threatens your income.


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As a wise person once said, "follow the money"._ Homeopathy is less expensive than allopathy, eliminating multiple, multiple visits and multiple, multiple vaccinations/drugs and then more visits to *cure* the diseases caused by the multiple vaccinations/drugs......all very lucrative to vets and very damaging to pets.


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So, where do you practice veterinary medicine, Rolfie?_ What homeopathic vets are challenging your income in your backyard?!


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Actually, Rolfe isn't a vet treating animals, but rather one dissecting animals figuring out how they died._Some of those dead animals come from homeopaths who treated a perfectly curable disease with homeopathy, without much success, until the animals got so distraught they had to be put down.
Rolfe is in no danger losing business because of the homeopaths, quite the contrary.


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Follow the money indeed, and see who offers the best cure compared to the price of the remedy_...


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Well, no, you have not rebutted the question at all.

That really does seem to explain a lot about Rolfe
then doesn't it?!!!

By the way, this is just natural progression in life and
nothing whatsoever to do with homeopathy. Things
die eventually and this includes both people and
animals. Nothing you can do about that one. Not
even modern medicine I am sorry to say. That is why
undertakers will never be out of business.

Homeopathy works very well on animals and helps
them greatly. I have given my dog remedies from the
word go when he has needed them and he is doing
great. A very small price to pay for the difference
between the cost of a remedy and the astronomical
amount that vets charge for antibiotics and steroids
that are unneccesary treatments. They seem to try at
every opportunity to give these unnecessarily so that
they can charge for them whether they are warranted
or not. Mostly not, but with terrible side effects. They
just like to line their pockets!!!

Hope you guys are off to line your pockets and kill
some more animals for your evil steroids. At least if
you are doing that you are not here and that has to
be a blessing in disguise!!!

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Badly Shaved Monkey said:


No. Do something useful and interesting, develop the argument in this thread;

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42881

Let's hope some homeopaths pass by.

In general, I try to stay out of things I don't have a great deal of knowledge on along with trying to not do a "Yeah!" or a "Me too!" deal. If someone's managed to make a good arguement for my side and my stance, I let it stand. I's not so good wi' them big wordie things sometimes.

This doesn't prevent me from kicking out the soapbox and getting up on it with a megaphone to screech.

But you're right, let's see what I can help develop.

No promises, Ape-boy.
 
Originally posted by Badly Shaved Monkey
Looks like it,

so here it is in its entirety;
Sorry folks, I guess it's my fault again, but luckily, this time I saved the thread before I killed it :rolleyes:, so I should still have the last bit I posted before it got unceremoniously transformed into nothing but zeroes. It's at work though, so I'll have to look for it tomorrow.
 
exarch said:
Sorry folks, I guess it's my fault again, but luckily, this time I saved the thread before I killed it :rolleyes:, so I should still have the last bit I posted before it got unceremoniously transformed into nothing but zeroes. It's at work though, so I'll have to look for it tomorrow.
Oh, thanks Exarch. I was away in Hertfordshire all day at a biochemistry meeting, and by the time I got back a lot had happened and was gone. I'm surprised the Addison's thread is still there (complete with JanZy's usual last word before she locks anything), but I guess the calves stuff held more liability.

The Addison's thread has so many home truths about homoeopathy in it that I don't think it will last long either. Syed saying that I'd kill the patient with steroids but he'd have her on the road to cure in 20 minutes is particularly ironic. I like the locking. I don't have to worry some of them will go back and delete the incriminating stuff without me realising it, and then it gets saved again.

I'm beginning to wonder if JanZy really does know some medicine because some of her last post is perfectly true (the case was a bit artificial because although the first presentation 24 hours away from death in Addisonian crisis is quite common in veterinary medicine, humans do usually seek help sooner). If I'd posted it myself, which I wasn't going to do, but if I had, I'd have made it a damn sight more plausible and taken out the tell-tale generalities in the list of symptoms. I think that the more real science and medicine they know, the more culpable they are. Which puts Leela and David pretty high on that list.

Interestingly enough, one of the most original presentations this afternoon was about how to use cortisol/cortisol binding globulin ratios to ensure that you don't falsely label someone as Addisonian. I'd still rather have that problem than my regular one of discovering screaming emergencies in my routine lab work! But even if the human-type biochemists managed to ensure that there was never a misdiagnosis again, that wouldn't stop JanZy asserting that they do it all the time.

Exarch, some time can we figure how to send me those files? If I give you a password for my Demon account, could you upload them?

Rolfe.
 
jimlintott said:
Just for laughs I cut and pasted all of the woman's symptoms into google. It truncated the search but yet this was the top link on a page that mentions addison's disease many times.

I can only conclude that google is better at diagnosis than your average homeopath.

Made me laugh. :D
Just to clarify. The reason you got such a good match was that it was verbatim. Because that was the page I copied and pasted the symptoms from in the first place!

It went like this (on the "Explian how homeopathy is better for...." thread).

Kumar: Flannel, flannel, "it works".

Me: Kumar, do you know what Addison's disease IS???

Kumar: Yes. [Here inserted that very link.]

Me: (Thinks.) What a good page. All the symptoms of Addison's in human patients - which I wasn't that familiar with in fact. And all the warnings about sudden death and how essential the medication is, all there together. And doesn't that symptom list look a wee bit like a homoeopathic proving? So-

Me: Kumar, here are the symptoms of Addison's disease, from that page. If someone went to a homoeopath with that lot, what would happen?

This went on for about three pages, with Kumar first saying that Addison's was a deficiency condition therefore couldn't be treated by homoeopathy, then backtracking. I presented him with the symptom list twice more, on the third occasion dressing it up with some personal details - I just threw in the bit about the pill because Bach keeps saying that the pill will antidote homoeopathic remedies.

Then Naturalhealth simply picked up that third repetition, without any of the context or the information that this was a perfectly open discussion about Addison's disease, and posted it in a new thread at H'pathy, saying that I "needed some help".

The rest is history.

They didn't even have to Google for it, if they'd come to see where Naturalhealth had got her "case" from, all would have been revealed. Indeed, I thought it was very obvious that it wasn't real, as several of the points in the list of symptoms were generalities, not specific. If I'd really been going to post it there I'd have made it a lot more realistic. I knew they were dumb, but I honestly didn't think they were this dumb.

Snoopy seems genuinely upset. However, I don't have a lot of sympathy. To the best of my knowledge she is the author of this page here, which is permanently on display at H'pathy, and begins with the following incredible piece of arrogant nonsense:
People always come to us last. By the time they get here, they've already been poisoned, mutilated, and relieved of their life savings. Nonetheless, they believe they've taken the right steps in seeing the "real" doctors first. If only they knew that the modern medical paradigm is built on a faulty premise!
If any of this has made her think at all about what she's doing, some good has come of it.

Rolfe.
 
Doc Dish said:
*Should I say Rolfie? Gosh, that was a real enigma code, wasn't it? :biggrin:
Someone else registered there as "Rolfe" a few months ago and got banned after one post. It wasn't me, and I never found out who it was, though what they posted wasn't unlike stuff I might have said.

I didn't think I'd be able to register "Rolfe" because of that. So I just stuck in the extra "i", because I wanted to flag up it was me. Only later did Exarch tell me that they do actually allow re-registrations of previously banned names. He'd had the same thing happen as me, but still managed to register as "Exarch". If I'd known, I'd have put in "Rolfe", but by then it was too late.

Rolfe.
 
There should be some soul-searchin going on among the believers represented over there, but I'm afraid they'll just rationalize it away as another "Randiland Troll Attack[tm]". I would expect NH to maintain a low profile for some thime, tho' ;).

Anyhow, it was almost too beautiful to believe. It makes me realize that if we were ever to act the destructive trolls that they try to label us as, we could probably wreak total havoc on those forums.

But then, that would make them right, for once :rolleyes:.

Hans
 
Originally posted by exarch
Sorry folks, I guess it's my fault again, but luckily, this time I saved the thread before I killed it :rolleyes:, so I should still have the last bit I posted before it got unceremoniously transformed into nothing but zeroes. It's at work though, so I'll have to look for it tomorrow.
OK folks, after removing some adds from the page: here it is, in all its glory :D
 
OK, I fixed the base directory, which was still pointing to my hard drive (oops :D), but with the 3 page addisons' thread, page two keeps giving me the below error message. Does anyone know why?
 
exarch said:
OK, I fixed the base directory, which was still pointing to my hard drive (oops :D), but with the 3 page addisons' thread, page two keeps giving me the below error message. Does anyone know why?
I keep getting that one too for some pages, and with your calves one. If you don't know why, what hope have I?

My copy of the calves one (which only lacks Exarch's final outburst), can be seen here. I hope!

(Oops, I'm wrong, this copy only has the start of the fight. The fuller version is on my other computer. I'll post it later.)

PS. Exarch, are you sure all the ancillary files in the folder have been uploaded? The only one you don't want is the showads file.

Rolfe.
 
Originally posted by Rolfe
My copy of the calves one (which only lacks Exarch's final outburst), can be seen here. I hope!
Actually Rolfe, yours only has 6 posts, while the one I saved has 18. Just thought I'd let you know.
 
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Actually Rolfe, yours only has 6 posts, while the one I saved has 18. Just thought I'd let you know.
Sorry, I saw that about the time you posted this. It must be the version I have on my home computer which is full. I'll upload that some time tonight.

Make sure yours has all its associated files present, that could be your problem.

Rolfe.
 
Addisons is (I assume) a pretty rare occurence, I wonder how they'd get along recommending appropriate action for symptoms of anaphylactic shock, epilipsy or an insulin deficiency blackout?

I mean those are things any of us can commonly encounter and the diagnosis and appropriate response should be known be even a girl guide/boy scout with the right badge on their arm.

I won't attempt to write the test myself as even if I copied it out of my St John's manual I'm sure I'd be ripped into for inaccuracies by some of the medical wise sages here!
 
Exarch,
I think the overflow error is specific to Internet Explorer - I used Firefox to browse the pages and it worked fine.

Try using anything other than IE to view the pages.
 
Originally posted by Rolfe
PS. Exarch, are you sure all the ancillary files in the folder have been uploaded? The only one you don't want is the showads file.
Oh yes, except all my image tags were still pointing towards my hard drive (Dohh!!), so I re-edited the html source file and replaced it in the entire document with the right URL. This should also have fixed the stack error as well I think (which was gone on my end since it was using the local scripts from my disk).
 
Rolfe said:
one of the most original presentations this afternoon was about how to use cortisol/cortisol binding globulin ratios to ensure that you don't falsely label someone as Addisonian. I'd still rather have that problem than my regular one of discovering screaming emergencies in my routine lab work!
Coincidence time again.

Addison's is a particular concern of mine because it is quite common in dogs. And in dogs it is quite common - indeed usual - for the animal not to be presented to a vet until he is or is nearly in an Addisonian crisis. Now I agree that it's rather less common in humans, and that humans are likely to present to the doctor before they get to crisis point. But it still happens sometimes, even in people, and hey, you go with what you know.

It was just an example of a possible situation where real medicine is essential, and fast, but that might not be realised by an untrained person. There are of course others, and we might explore some of these later. But that's why I picked that one from Hydrogen Cyanide's original list.

The idea that someone might take a dog in that condition to a homoeopath just makes me break out in a cold sweat. Fortunately in this country it's illegal to practise homoeopathy on animals if you aren't also a vet (for just that sort of reason), but that doesn't mean it can't happen, or that it doesn't happen in other countries. I wonder how many cases Wim Pardaan has unknowingly allowed to die?

Then this afternoon I pick up a blood report from the routine pile, to scrutinise and issue it to the practice. Three-year-old dog. Sounds quite unwell, but apart from the slow heart rate there's not a lot of hard information in the clinical history. I looked at the blood results.

High protein, albumin and PCV
Sodium 136 mmol/l, potassium 8.3 mmol/l
Moderately severe kidney failure
Eosinophilia

No need to say any more.
Screaming Addisonian crisis.

The sample had been collected yesterday. The warning bells went off loud and clear, and the cold sweat broke out. That potassium is potentially survivable, but that result was about 22 hours old. I grabbed the phone. Engaged tone. I did a few more routine forms, and tried again. An answer. I asked to speak with the vet dealing with the case.

She sounded quite cheerful. I asked if the dog was still alive. Yes, she said. I started breathing again. Told her the diagnosis. "Oh good," she said, "I started to wonder last night if it might be that, and I thought well, if it does turn out to be his heart then some steroids won't do any harm, and if it could be Addison's, he'd better have some now." And guess what, he was looking a bit better today.

She'd saved his life.

Not by knowing for sure that this was Addison's, but by knowing what the possibilities were and doing the sensible thing, while waiting for the results of the tests she'd so sensibly requested. We discussed how best to treat him now we had a real handle on the condition, and she went merrily off to set up a saline drip and get the dose of the steroids sorted out.

This gives me a good feeling. It's a particularly nice one because you know it's certain death if you don't intervene, and you also know that the dog will be back to normal in 24-48 hours with the right treatment. All he needs now is a few tablets every day, and there's no reason he shouldn't live a perfectly normal life. There's even a new treatment licensed in America where I think you only need to give one injection every month.

But none of the homoeopaths can even begin to comprehend why I feel so strongly about this. Even though I'll never meet that dog, or the scores of similar ones over the years, I care about them, and on the odd occasion when my phone call is met with the sad news that the dog has died, I tend to cry a bit.

Then I have to read web rants that steriods are poison and sugar pills can cure anything. And more rants that I'm a vicious, angry person who kills animals, and is being paid for harrassing homoeopaths.

Yeah, right. They just don't have a clue.

Rolfe.
 

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