Holistic Pet Care

Hi Paula,

Check your “Prescription for Nutritional Healing”.  Look under Alzheimer’s Disease.  Lots of great info that applies to our furry friends just the same as people.

I brought my 96 year young Nana back home to California last October.  She’d moved to Washington 20 years ago with her 2^nd husband who passed away Feb 2008.  She was diagnosed with dementia and required a 24/7 care facility.  We started her on intensive B Complex and B-12 (methylcobalamine form instead of the B12 most doctors use that isn’t as well assimilated by the body), dosing 3cc’s 3x/week for 12 weeks (this just ended last Friday); along with fish oil, Vaccination & Wormer Detox (she’d been annually vaccinated for the flu and pneumonia – though not getting vaccinated ever again with me), Derma NERV as it helps regenerate the nerves, NZ Colostrum, classical music daily (excellent for the brain), Visual Eyes for eyesight (she doesn’t wear glasses), and numerous other things.  All the herbal tinctures are dosed in her coffee to evaporate out the alcohol and so she doesn’t have to taste them.  Her doctor wanted to put her on the drug Aricept, but I refused, until she had a severe bout of dementia and was way off base one day, so we (she has a caregiver 5 days/week that witnessed that horrible day in early January) took her to her geriatric physician the following day.  He pushed the Aricept, so the caregiver started giving it.  She declined and had many of the side effects – fecal/urinary incontinence, lack of appetite which she couldn’t afford as she only weighed 85 pounds then (now she’s at 95 lbs.), and a severe decline in memory, plus some agitation/aggression, so we took her off the Aricept and the first week she improved greatly and has continued to do so ever since with her vitamin therapy.  We’re moving her to an Independent Living apartment as she is doing so fabulously well June 1st.

She has taught me many things, one of which is to give the sublingual form of methylcobalamine B12 to myself and my 15 ½ year old half wolf companion. =)

Anyways, Prescription for Nutritional Healing has excellent information and advises to NEVER diagnose an alzheimer’s or dementa patient until intensive vitamin therapy has been tried for at least a few months (largely the B vitamins) as often lack of these vitamins exhibits memory deficiencies.

Julie