subject: Dog Allergy Medicine - Do Steroids Do More Harm Than Good In Dog Allergy Treatments? [print this page] Dog Allergy Medicine - Do Steroids Do More Harm Than Good In Dog Allergy Treatments?
When your dog gets sick, the first thing you do is take him to the doctor. Unfortunately, the first thing your doctor does or thinks about doing is prescribing your dog steroids.
Steroids?!
Yes, steroids. The reason they do this is so they can match what you, the dog's owner, wants to see. And what's that? You want to see results and the doctors want to give you immediate results. Now you might be thinking. What's wrong with getting results for my sick dog?
Well, nothing. Except the fact that the doctor is doing your dog more harm than good and those immediate results you're seeing is nothing but smoke and guns. Steroids don't heal or cure anything. The only thing they do is suppress your body's ability to show a normal reaction. They do for two reasons:
1) Immediate results and
2) The hope that your body or, in this case, your dog's body will have enough time to recuperate.
This would be perfectly fine if that's all steroids do, without any side effects. But that's not the case; there are many side effects some even being fatal.
Steroids don't need years to damage our systems; it could be a few months or even a week. Some long term steroid effects are cataracts, muscle weakness, and osteoporosis to name a few. While some of the short term side effects of steroid use are: irritability, agitation, and depression.
So you're probably thinking: "But my doctor told me I should give them to my dog. He must know what he's doing." My response would be, if your doctor told you to jump off a bridge, would you? If your answer is no; read on.
There are natural ways to relieve your dog of allergies and they aren't expensive! Some natural ways to relieve allergies are OPC-3 which is a super antioxidant supplement taken orally or fish oil which has omega-3 fatty acids. Both of these options battle and protect your dog against allergies.
