Information from Dr Charles E Loops DVM
"Yehudi Menuhin's statement is one of several reasons
I became interested in Homeopathy and frustrated with "allopathic medicine".
After 10 years of traditional veterinary practice I became tired of having no
treatment for chronic disease, incurable conditions, and a plethora of allergic maladies
which seem to plague all veterinary practices. I was frustrated with giving animals
cortisone because I had no other solutions, or using antibiotics for infections which I
knew were of viral origin.
At this time I had some chronic health problems, which had
been unresolvable allopathically, but they responded to treatment by homeopathy. It took
some time but it worked!
This is when my philosophy about disease changed and my
interest in classical homeopathy began. I studied with Richard Pitcairn, DVM, going to
workshops that he offered for several years. I completed a year of study with Linda
Johnston, M.D., author of Everyday Miracles who had a very successful homeopathic
practice in CA. I have studied extensively and continue to do so.
I progressively added homeopathy to my practice over a 4
year period and in February of 1992, I sold this practice so that I could devote myself to
veterinary homeopathy exclusively.
Now that my practice is 90% by telephone and I rarely get
to see my patients or their owners by photograph, I thought that you might appreciate a
little background information on me and a photograph.
THE VACCINATION DILEMMA and
YOUR HEALTHY COMPANIONS
Homeopathic veterinarians and other holistic practitioners have maintained for some time
that vaccinations do more harm than they provide benefits. Vaccinations represent a major
assault on the body's immune system. Attentuated organisms or chemically killed viruses or
bacteria are injected directly into the blood stream, an unnatural route of infection.
This profound insult, avoiding the body's first line of defenses, and flooding the system
with millions of organisms or viral particles, stresses the immune system in a way not of
natures design. This insult causes irregularities and abnormalities in the immune system
which then manifests as chronic diseases in animals. These chronic diseases range from
life-threatening conditions such as auto-immune crises to conditions destroying the
quality of life of an animal as in chronic skin allergies.
What we are now seeing are generations of over-vaccinated animals and these current
offspring are suffering the penalty of this medical abuse. In an attempt to control a
naturally occurring process of population control and survival of the fittest, the medical
establishment has convinced people that mass innoculations are for the good of all,
overlooking the health of the individual. Where vaccinations have helped in eradicating or
reducing the incidence of severe, acute disease processes, the result has been to plague
humanity with more insidious, chronic diseases that are much more difficult to treat and
that lower the quality of life for many individual animals and people.
In all of this, there needs to be BALANCE, and the following are my recommendations for
vaccinating or not vaccinating and some comments about diet.
1. Puppies under three months of age should not be vaccinated.
Vaccinations are much more stressful on the underdeveloped immune system. Also, these
vaccinations are much less effective at providing immunity before three months of age. If
you feel you must vaccinate, do so with one vaccination of Distemper at three months,
followed by a vaccination for Parvovirus at four months of age, and stop with that. If you
can't find a single Distemper vaccine use the Distemper-measles combination. Use killed
vaccines only.
2. Kittens should only be vaccinated for
Panleukopenia and not before three months of age. All other vaccinations should be
avoided. One vaccine is sufficient.
3. Puppies and kittens can be given homeopathic
nosodes beginning at three weeks of age, if there is a potential for exposure to
Distemper, Parvovirus, or Panleukopenia. These nosodes can be used until vaccinations are
given or continued periodically for the first year of life, if vaccinations are not given.
Common sense should be used in avoiding exposure of very young animals to other, possible
unhealthy, animals of the same species.
4. Booster vaccinations are completely unnecessary.
Studies are now showing that these vaccinations are effective for many years and most
probably for life. Vaccinated animals do not need any boosters. Homeopathic nosodes can be
given periodically if you are concerned or if you think your animals live a high risk,
life style.
5. Rabies Vaccinations should be given as dictated by state laws. Lyssin,
the homeopathic nosode, should be given within a few hours after the vaccination. Clearly,
the rabies vaccination is effective for many years more than state laws require booster
vaccination.
6. Booster vaccinations can cause SEVERE set-backs when an animal is being treated
homeopathically for chronic problems. They can completely erase any progress that
has been made towards improving an animal's health.
7. My personal recommendation is NOT to vaccinate at all. The best road to
good health is feeding a diet rich in fresh foods, raw meats for the carnivores, and
avoiding vaccinations and allopathic medications. Antibiotics and other allopathic drugs
should only be used in situations where their use is clearly indicated, and this should be
only in potentially, life-threatening situations. Every time you suppress a symptom the
body produces, you are potentially lowering the health status of the body system. Treating
with the correctly prescribed, homeopathic remedy, herbs, or other non-invasive therapies,
not of a chemical nature, will enhance your health and your companions health.
8. Commercial diets should be carefully chosen. Your companion is at the
mercy of your good or poor judgement in selecting foods. Cats and dogs which have free
access to the outside can to some degree supplement their diet. Otherwise, they are
totally dependent on you. Science diets and Hill's dog and cat food products are not
good diets. They use chemical preservatives that have been shown to cause problems in some
animals, and they use by-products, which are words on the ingredient label that
need to be avoided at all costs. This generally means food not utilized for human
consumption. If you feed a carefully selected commercial food, some supplementation with
fresh food is necessary to maximize your companions' health. Raw poultry, beef, lamb, or
rabbit and occasionally liver should be added to the diet at least three times per week,
and fresh vegetables in small amounts should also be offered.
9. The best diet is a RAW FOOD DIET and we have recipes. There are also many
good books with recipes for raw diets.
