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Immune System Support First!

When supporting an immune system, you do not allow vaccination, chemicals, dips, grains, potatoes, or yeast to enter the dog.

So how hard is this?

Dr. Jean Dodds vaccination protocol takes into account the age of the puppy, and the fact that puppies still on their mothers are immune supported by the dam.  So why do so many breeders, veterinarians, and rescues vaccinate puppies as young as six weeks?   This crashes their immune system!

Honestly, I have been researching for the past several years, and all of the pharmaceutical manuals have changed to make me believe they want our pets sick along with what they are doing to us.  After all, just how much profit would there be in a medicine or vaccine if it actually cured what it was aiming at?  At best, I vote for pallative.

Many years ago, I had a Merck manual in my possession that made statements about not vaccinating when the animal was sick, running  a fever, or had experienced any type of reaction to the vaccine in the past.

Now-a-days, it is just stick em regardless.  This is not only alarming, but coming from someone who suffers from MS, it angers me worse than most of the negative things that humans can do.  

I firmly believe that anything that is put into our body is looked at by our immune system as an enemy that may or may not need to be destroyed.  If it is something that the immune system must mount a defense against, then the immune system is being compromised with all the overtime it is putting in.

Dietary Support

I strongly believe that a healthy dog does not have fleas, mange, or about a dozen other ailments.  Let's get the dog healthy along with the applications listed below.
First off, make sure that you are feeding a quality natural or holistic food that does not contain wheat, corn, or chemicals in any form.  The water if the animal is very ill should be only distilled then change to at least filtered water once the animal is improved.

Brewers Yeast Tablets

650 mg tablets for a GSD sized dog, use 12-20 two times a day.  Most dogs will eat them as treats, if not, get the powered brewers yeast and mix in their dinner.

Daily add to food

2 teaspoons dried kelp (run thyroid panel first)
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 vitamin E capsule
2 teaspoons pureed pumpkin

Topical Support

Following is a list of different kitchen and bath cabinet stuff you can mix and try.  All are topical applications apply after the dog has been freshly bathed and towel dried.

Borax and Hydrogen Peroxide

Mix 1/3 cup 3% hydrogen peroxide 
with 2/3 cup water
add 1-2 Tablespoons Borax and stir
Shampoo dog, rinse with plain water and towel, then apply the mixture and allow it to air dry on the pet.

5% Benzoyl peroxide gel

Such as:  Clearasil, Forstex, Cuticura, Pen Ocyl Aq5.  
Mix with borax and apply to the affected areas.

Borax and White Vinegar

2 1/2 Tablespoons Borax
1 cup white vinegar
put in blender then pour in spray bottle and saturate dog and spray the bedding area.

Garlic Oil

Apply to sore or hairless patches daily.

Sulfur

Treat the yard with sulfur from the feed store.

Mix Sulfur with Vaseline and use topically on the face, ears

Demodex Mange, or any itchy scratchy bumpy stuff

Diatomaceous Bathing

3 cups Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth in 5 gallons of water.  Soak 15 minutes and let air dry.

Demodicosis - Canine Demodex Mite

Ivermectin 5% Injectable

After many trials of different things, starting with veterinary protocol, I changed the way I handled this, because the Demodex was beating us at all turns.

Demodex goes crazy due to a compromised immune system.  I believe that using pesticides to treat Demodex with their toxic side effects further compromise the immune system you have to rebuild while managing the mange.

I tossed all the current veterinary protocols aside and chose Ivermectin.  I administered the Ivermectin at 2/10th of a cc per 10# of body weight mixed in the food two continuous days each week.

When you start this protocol, the animal will also have to be taking antibiotics due to the yeast that will develop on the skin.  Shampooing with either a Tea Tree, or Citrus Shampoo weekly is also a must.

Monitor the progress, and treat three additional weeks after all mange nests and pimples are gone.

Ivermectin metabolizes in the liver and is flushed naturally out of the body.  The only side effect we have had to deal with is runny stool, which we help by adding canned pumpkin to the meals during the entire treatment.

This treatment can't be used with collies or collie crosses, so don't try it.

Limping

Brewers Yeast tablets 650mg from 12-20 tablets two times a day, or use powdered brewers yeast in the meals twice a day.

Ester C (vitamin c) to tolerance.  Give in 500mg doses until stool becomes loose, then back down.  Once stool is normal again you have found the level of Ester C that is needed.