Hiya Brickey,
It's so amazing to me; while searching via search engines for
alternative methods of treating cataracts (specifically in dogs) I got
absolutely nothing. When I began taking my plight to various alternative
lists, I found there are treatments abound! And most are very simplistic.
If only there were enough hours in a day to create a website covering
these methods, with scientific and anecdotal evidence, for the others
that are searching...
My precious girl lost her other eye to glaucoma. I searched, begged and
pleaded for an alternative option, but general consensus was that there
isn't one, and we settled on eneucleation to eliminate the pain, and the
need for drugs. Between her diagnosis of glaucoma, and the removal of
the eye, the cataract in her *good* eye rendered her blind. She was
pronounced a good candidate for cataract surgery (at age 12!), but at
$1000 it simply isn't a possibility.
I so appreciate hearing these testimonies. They give me hope, and good
ideas.
Thanks guys!
-Raine with Chino the one-eyed wonder dog
http://www.dogster.com/?87580
brick...@aol.com wrote:
My dog was also one eyed, cataract covered her pupil. I bought regular
linseed oil a gallon at Home Base (a hardware store) in their paint
section and filled a 1 ounce bottle with an eye dropper. Every day she
got one drop in her eye for at least two months. Her eyelids became
crusty and I just stopped treating her. I was astonished to see the
cataract shrank to a pin point and after several more weeks totally
was gone. After seeing this I also used linseed oil (Flaxseed oil) in
my eyes. DR said I had a bunch of small cataracts growing in both
eyes. I had a yearly check up about 5 weeks later and DR said NO
CATARACTS. Since then about 5 years ago the cataracts are coming back
in my eyes, I now make my own CS so I use CS + 10% DMSO in my eye wash
cup, cataracts are still there but not growing.
When I treated my dog I did not even refrigerate the linseed oil. I
found that it goes rancid later so when I treated myself I kept the
bottle refrigerated. I guess that our garage was cold enough when I
treated my dog to act like a refrigerator.
Brickey