This seems to have been an academic query - there was no mention of an actual patient at all by the original poster. (Note, having no details at all about the patient, indeed not even having any information that there is a patient at all, only an "allopathic" disease name, doesn't stop the remedy suggestions coming thick and fast though.)
I even wondered if the poster was a "troll", because this is quite a good way of getting going - ask how the homoeopaths would approach something you know is life-threatening. (And some of us are even lucky enough to have Naturalhealth post our best ideas for us, too....) But on the other hand, it's a long-dormant identity for a troll sock.
("Avogadro", the last poster....? Hmmm....)
Anyway, the first mention of an actual patient is by Cheema, a couple of posts in.
In my college (from where I am sending this post), a patient reported this case, we (few trainee doctors) under a senior doctor took symptoms and agreed on Pyrogenum 200. This remedy brought good change in patient's symptoms but later on the patient reported to lady gynaecologist (mbbs) who adv the patient not to visit college dispensory again and after that patient never came back.
Note what happened. The woos gave the magic water, and the patient promptly decamped to a real doctor (mbbs is what we'd call MBChB, a pukka medical degree.) The real doctor gynaecologist promptly told the patient never to darken the homoeopaths' door again. Quite right too.
The rest of the thread returns to an academic discussion of which of many remedies would be beneficial for this allopathic disease-name, quite oblivious of the coach and horses they're driving through basic homoeopathic principles. (They should have an actual patient in front of them and find that individual's remedy by careful symptom-taking and repertorisation. This is what they always say they do, and any non-believer trial of homoepoathy which just throws a remedy at an allopathic diagnosis is of course completely invalid. Except that's all they do themselves when they think nobody's looking.)
And note Ricky's claim of success:
The constitutional remedy prevented my patient from getting to that state with her second pregnancy.
Translation, my "patient" didn't happen to develop this complaint during her second pregnancy, so I'm going to claim the credit. If she had developed it, what would have happened? Same as with Cheema's patient, I suspect.
This is what generally happens with human patients. The patients have enough self-preservation instinct to take themselves to a real doctor when they realise they're in real trouble. The problem is that when pets are involved the human making the decisions isn't the one feeling Death's clammy hand on her shoulder, and like Alphonse they tend to hold the party line even when they have a dying animal in front of them.
And they have their allies.
The most shocking page on the Internet. This is a lifethreatening condition which requires immediate intensive care and surgery. It's every vet's emergency nightmare. There was a long article about it in today's
Vet Times highlighting the difficulties and dangers, and the much poorer prognosis if there is any delay in seeking treatment. But does the homoeopath page even mention that it might be a good idea to call a vet? No, just keep dripping magic water into the dog's mouth "until the symptoms ease or are gone." Which will be when the dog dies, you yo-yo, unless it didn't have that in the first place!
Sadly, I think it's far more likely that a dog will be left to die in that situation, courtesy of magic water, than for example a human with acute appendicitis would be.
Rolfe.
