Dr Erik Johnson - Veterinarian
Companion Animal & Fish Health
Medications used as part of Veterinary Care
You will need:
A LOT of the time, you have to give a medicine to a dog or cat that won’t eat.
Worse, there are dogs who have no problem at all with biting their owners. (My dog would sooner die)
When you get a dog that won’t eat a pill, in a treat or piece of cheese or bread, you need to push the pill down their throat, or make it into a ‘drink’. And syringe that into the dog.
Measuring spoons that are ‘fairly’ accurate to the amount and milligram for things which have a very high and wide safety margin. Great spoons for measuring sodium ascorbate and rhizoma coptidis. https://drjohnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Dosing-Powders-Pretty-Accurately.pdf
Rhizoma coptidis natural alternative to ursodehydrocholic acid.
Dogs and cats have a variety of liver problems. Many of these relate to aging, and medications, germs, and viruses. Long ago, ancient people found benefits to health in “black bear gall bladder” gall. A lot of bears died.
Denamarin was a “me too” veterinary preparation of Milk Thistle sold as a ‘proprietary’ answer to the far-more-effective “Urso” which is ‘ursodehydrocholic acid’ and had been working WELL for liver disease, cirrhotic, fibrotic, infectious….But Veterinarians didn’t ‘control’ the drug and there was a generic. Milk Thistle contains minuscule amounts of UDCA and so it was … Read more
How To Get Medicines Online Without a Prescription Key points: You’re not encouraged to do this because you may get dangerous or illegal compounds. You could be included in a ‘situation’ when and if these online pharmacies are plundered by the authorities. You’re giving your credit card information to “this kind” of people. Past that, … Read more
99% of Microbiome Germs Are Mysterious Science has discovered, by identifying the tiny pieces of DNA from bacteria in our brains and muscles and organs, that we are absolutely swarming with germs that we depend on to live (Microbiome). We also know that antibiotics kill some of those germs, and we don’t even know what … Read more
Robitussin DM (Get it) Has been recommended for your dog. (Printable version) There’s good news, by the way. Robitussin DM is available in a pill form. When you’re dosing that, there are two parts: Guaifenesin and dextromethorphan. You dose based on the Guaifenesin. So the dose for Guaifenesin in dogs is 3-5mg per kg up … Read more
DHEA So there are hormone systems in the body which involve testosterone in males and estrogen in females. Those hormones are vital in the performance of the young male or young female dog or cat, reproductively, as well as for strength, endurance, overall health, muscle mass bone density fitness. Very solid studies have demonstrated that … Read more
I found my heartworm prevention for twelve dollars at Bill’s Pet Supply. (He’s a veterinary technician who steals Heartworm pills from the office he works at, and doesn’t have a pharmacy license. He sells them on Craigslist.) I need a prescription to make this “legal” 666PetMeds will sell me “heartworm prevention” (which they CANNOT buy … Read more
Finding Real Phycox on Amazon.com I can’t swear that I’ve doped out all the variations from both manufacturers but one is real and the other is fake. And the manufacturers of “Phycox” has been going after the fakes for a long time. So what I did was put together a document that shows you obvious … Read more
