Winky

Winky's Profile Breed: Black Domestic Short Hair Age: 3 Diagnosis: Mast Cell Tumors, Food Allergies, Renal Insufficiency

This is the remarkable story of 'Winky', a stray cat who spent his first year at a municipal landfill, had cancer at 2 years of age, suffered a seizure, had food allergies and renal insufficiency. Using Chemical Detoxification, an emerging therapy in veterinary medicine, we cured Winky's ailments so he was completely drug-free.

Click here to read excerpts from Winky's Hair Test Results and BioMedical Profile.

Mast cell tumors and Seizures
When Winky came to CRVC, he had recently had two cutaneous mast cell tumors surgically removed from the left side of the neck and right shoulder at the Animal Medical Center in New York City. He had a history of picky appetite, and infrequent bowel movements (every 2 days).

On November 26, 2000 at 5:00 a.m. Winky had a seizure-like episode. He was seen "lying on his side, paddling with the front legs, eyes open, spine flexed, tail puffed up, and snarling". This behavior lasted one minute.

Winky's caregiver was adding vitamin A-10,000 U, vitamin E-400 IU, bone meal ˝ tablet, and kelp ˝ tablet, twice a week. He received vitamin C-250 mg. and zinc 30 mg every other day. He would also chew on houseplants, and lived indoors.

Winky's exam at CRVC
Winky's caregiver drove 3 hours to bring her cat to CRVC on December 8, 2000. We found him to be somewhat irritable and not accustomed to examination or restraint. He had dark semi-lunar discolorations in the 4:00 to 8:00 position on both irises. The ear pinnae were cool, and unusually short whiskers were noted on the eyebrows and muzzle. The heart rate was 174. He had muscle tension on the right side, in the long head of the triceps muscle. Surgical sites had healed, leaving brown fur. He was sensitive over BL-23, an acupuncture association point for the kidneys. Body condition score was 4/5. A blood sample was obtained for routine serum chemistry tests and to prepare his BioMedical ProfileŽ. We also sent a sample of serum to a veterinary diagnostic laboratory for IgE food allergy testing, and gave a hair analysis kit to the owner to submit to a third diagnostic laboratory.

Homeopathic detoxification
We suspected dietary intolerance, so we sent Winky home with a homeopathic remedy for intestinal inflammation and gastritis. Second, we prepared a 3 cc syringe with a mix of superoxide dismutase 1.25 mg, glutathione 25 mg, vitamin B-6 10 mg, adrenal cortex extract 40 mg., and lactated Ringers solution q/v to 2.5 ml volume. This was administered as a subcutaneous injection by the owner at home to minimize stress on the cat and start the process of chemical detoxification.

Full length samples of hair were also obtained from the lateral trunk, caudal to the scapulae and submitted to a diagnostic laboratory for mass spectrometry analysis. We wanted to identify potentially toxic elements that Winky could have acquired from the landfill site, local water, or diet that would promote kidney disease, seizures, mast cell tumors, or any combination thereof.

Based on the hair analysis we prescribed 5 homeopathic preparations of the elements found in high levels in the hair samples. Winky was treated with Aluminum metallicum, Arsenicum metallicum, Bismuthum metallicum, Niccolum metallicum, and Thorium metallicum (Dolisos), 30c potency in water, 3 drops orally once a day of one remedy, rotating the remedies every 24 hours, for approximately 4 months.

Nutritional Therapy For Recurrent Food Allergies

Winky tested positive on ELISA IgE food allergy tests for soybean, corn, rice, potato, and carrot. He was borderline sensitive for eggs, lamb, peanut, and yeast. We recommended a hypoallergenic commercial cat food as he did not have interest in home made food.

Concurrent nutritional supplementation prescribed on his BioMedical Profile included Formula 1080, 75 mg. whole adrenal extract (Doctor's Mutual Scientific Corporation, 1 dropper sid); Daily-3 multivitamin-mineral (Doctor's Pride, ˝ capsule sid); EPA-DHA 300 (1000 mg capsule sid); Glucosamine + MSM Forte (Douglas Laboratories, ˝ capsule sid); Thymex, 130 mg. bovine thymus cytosol extract (Standard Process, 1 tablet sid); and Rehab Forte (Progressive Labs, ˝ capsule sid). Winky's owner did a great job administering the nutritional supplements daily.

Recovered, Inside and Out
Phone consultation with Winky's caregiver. Winky had no more episodes of seizure and was eating well! He is drinking a lot of bottled water, and getting exercise outdoors.

At Winky's four-month recheck exam we found him friendly, outgoing, and happier. He is having a bowel movement daily. The seizure did not return. He was very good taking the supplements. On physical exam the iris discolorations were gone, the heart rate a normal 126, body condition score 3.5/5, and he no more sensitivity at acupuncture association points (Shu points).

Winky's Hair Test Results and BioMedical Profile are shown below.

Follow up
Chemical detoxification is a new medical practice for humans and practically unknown in veterinary medicine. The doctors and staff at CRVC are innovators in the field of nutritional medicine, and proud of the very positive clinical outcome for Winky. Currently we have prescribed the next phase of treatment to address his chronic kidney disease.

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