Treating feline stomatitis naturally, with homeopathy may provide your cat with the best long term outcome for this painful condition.

Stomatitis is an inflammation of the gums. Most vets start off by treating this condition with antibiotics. This is often quickly upgraded to cortisone. Finally teeth removal is recommended. Yet still the condition remains.

Clearly these measures are not addressing the cause of the problem, merely the effect. Surely, addressing the cause is a better way to treat any condition.

Introducing Dr Richard Pitcairn. He qualified as a veterinarian in America in 1965. He studied homeopathy soon after that. And became an advocate for natural diets for pets. As most serious alternative animal therapists do.

He (along with his colleagues) had virtually no cases of feline stomatitis in those days. It is only since this time that it has become more prevalent.

Since 1965, there are two main changes to cats lives, as far as I can see. One is the introduction of dried, pelleted food. The other is the increase in annual vaccination.

Whilst I am no advocate for vaccinations, let’s leave that aside for the moment. Let’s look at diet.

Apart from the dry nature of the food, the ingredients of typical commercial cat food, even those promoted by your favourite veterinarian go something like this:
 

•  poor quality protein source - often from rendering plants, often stale, even rotting
•  this is bulked out with cheap, so low grade, carbohydrates and fat
   
•  chemical additives provide colour, flavour, texture, appetite stimulants, preservative and attempt to address the nutrient shortfall
   
•  cooked under extreme pressure and temperature
   

Yet cats evolved on and so require the following:
 

•  they kill and immediately eat their food, so freshness is essential
•  they consume the whole carcass - including quality protein, bones, organs,
   
•  because the quality of wild kill is high, there is little fat or carbohydrate and definitely no need to add extra nutrients
   
•  everything is in natural balance
   

What this tells you is that the raw bones in a natural diet are essential to keep your cat’s gums healthy. They also help to keep the teeth clean. Additionally, they are also an essential and natural source of the calcium, phosphorus, magnesium trio.

Converting an adult cat to a natural diet may not be without its problems (aka converting your children to healthy food after junk food?), but will almost certainly dramatically improve the mouth condition, and may cure it altogether. What remains can be resolved with appropriate homeopathic treatment.

Other problems with dried cat food include:
 

•  dehydration. Cats rely almost entirely on the moisture content in their food for their liquid requirements. While many cats will drink more when on a dry food diet, many don’t.
•  stomach and digestive problems. Cats do not always have successful hunts. Many fail. So they are more adept at fasting than free feeding, which is so common with dried food. Chronic problems often result when food is eaten before the last meal has digested.
   
•  worms and fleas abound because the skin and gut pH changes and alters the natural and delicate flora and fauna balance