Cat with overactive thyroid - has anyone used chinese herbs and do they work?
June 27, 2009 by Ginseng Reviews and Tips
Filed under Chinese Herbs
Can you answer pettyfan’s question about Ginseng?:
Specifically I have heard about “thyroid calming” which you give 2 small black pills, twice a day. Any advice would be appreciated. Trying to avoid the high cost of vet prescribed pills for now.
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Specifically I have heard about “thyroid calming” which you give 2 small black pills, twice a day. Any advice would be appreciated. Trying to avoid the high cost of vet prescribed pills for now.
Have you claimed your Genesis site?
Ginseng Feedback: Did your vet diagnose an overactive thyroid? If so, use the animal prescription. NEVER, never, never give an animal drugs, herbals, or supplements designed for humans; they can be deadly.
Ginseng Feedback: Human herbals don’t work on cats–they have a whole different body integration.
My cat is hyperthyroid, it costs me $35 a month. She started on the pills - tapazole - but she’s hard to get a pill into. We have a pharmaceutical shop that specializes in vets supplies, they compounded it into a cream for me, so now it’s doing a small dab in her ear twice a day. Same cost. It’s called methamazole.
If you don’t control the cat’s thyroid, you stand a good chance of loosing her to heart problems very quickly.
Is $1 a day too high a cost? It’s MORE if you have the radio-iodine treatment done for $1,300. It has an 80% chance of permanently fixing the problem, but a 20% chance of not. We went with the cream instead.
Ginseng Feedback: Some of the herbal cures are great for humans, but not for cats. A cats body is entirely different from a humans and, in general, have no mechanism for assimilating plant materials, which is what the medications are primarily made up of. Some can even be fatal to cats.
Ginseng Feedback: Never try a herbal treatment on an animal. You can never be sure of the dose. For one thing, assuming your vet has diagnosed an overactive thyroid, the common medication, Tapazole, is generic, and relatively inexpensive. I actually had mine filled at a pharmacy, and it was about $30 for almost three months of pills. Of course, since my cat was under 18, I had to sign for her!