CASES AND PROPOSALS ON LIMITS OF OPHTHALMIC TREATMENT IN ANIMALS USING WESTERN MEDICINE

Our hospital carries out a series of ophthalmic surgery including cataract surgery, but here we introduce the limits of ophthalmic treatment of animals using Western medicine and cases in which we felt a concern about side effects drugs due to long-term administration and I will introduce it here.


■Case １：Glaucoma

In glaucoma treatment, surgery is not possible (general anesthesia, etc.)・Intraocular pressure does not drop much even when instilled or administered by internal medicine.
Or, it cannot be continued for a long time due to the side effects of oral medication (there are many intraocular pressure medications for glaucoma, some drugs may cause side effects with long-term administration)

When used with traditional Chinese medicine in such a case, the intraocular pressure drops by 10 to 20 in nearly 80% of the cases at this hospital, and there are few side effects, so long-term administration is used for treatment.
However, the contents of Chinese herbal medicines vary depending on th animal's "proof" , so even if it is effective for one offspring, it may not be effective for another offspring. Therefore, be careful.


■Case ２：Intraocular bleeding

Depending on the cause of bleeding, Western medicine often uses hemostatic agents and steroids for medical treament.
However, as with humans, it is anxious to give long-term preventive medicine to pups that relapse and bleed even if they stop bleeding temporarily, or pups that have a predesposition to bleed.
For these animals, we have Chinese herbal medicines that match the evidence of the animals as an alternative to Western medicine.


■Case ３：Fibrin desposition due to endophthalmitis

There are various causes of inflammation in the eyeball. As a result of the inflammation, a hazy white substance called fibrin develops in the eye and when it increases, it may cause a decrease in visual acuity or glaucoma.

At this time, generally, there is a treatment to surgically clean the inside of the eye or to inject a drug called t-PA (a very expensive drug) of Western medicine into the eye chamber under general anesthesia (intravenously. There is also a method of administration.)

However, in the early days, fibrin may be lost, although it may take some time, by giving a herbal medicine that matches the testimony.


■Case ４：Conjunctivitis

Infants with recurrent infectious conjunctivitis are generally examined for the cause, and if the cause is antibiotic eye drops, dry eye, etc., they are treated while taking measures against tears.

However, some infections may recur.

At that time, if you use Indian eye wash solution (Ayurveda) the frequency of recurrence will be drastically rreduced.

This eye wash solution contains no antibiotics. It is thought that it is because of the bactericidal action as a factor of the effect.

If you are in trouble because it is cheap, please try it. It's a strange medicine.


■Case ５：Blood flow in the fundus

Although it was announced at the Ozone Society, there were some pups that were effective even at this hospital.

In Western medicine, drugs such as tocopherol nicotinate, flavanoids, and astaxanthin are used together when ocular lesions occur due to low blood flow in the fundus due to retinal disease, but none of them are silver bullets.

Although ozone treatment is not a silver bullet, pups treated with ozone treatment also feel better than before they were used.


■Case ６：Corneal lesion

Intractable corneal disease is usually recovered to some extent by surgery.

At our hospital, we perform various types of corneal surgery, but unlike humans, animals cannot be operated on without general anesthesia.

There are various reasons for performing surgery, but there are actually some babies who cannot undergo general anesthesia and therefore cannot be treated surgically.

In such cases, it is common to maintain the current state with eye drops in Western medicine, but for certain corneal diseases, it may be improved by using drugs such as homeopathy and homeotology.

If you don't mind, please consult our hospital once.




As mentioned above, there are various other things, but in the case of ophthalmic treatment, 90% theoretically can be solved by the treatment of Western medicine.

However, the biggest problem is that humans can perform cataract surgery with local anesthesia, unlike in animals, general anesthesia is required for most eye surgery as well as cataract surgery.

The issue here is how to treat an animal that has become unable to undergo general anesthesia. Can your animal control the symptoms? Does your animal take Western medicine for a long time with adverse effects? ...etc.

At those times, why not consider a treatment other than Western medicine？
Please feel free to contact us for any small matters.