Is their a home remedy to give a dog while having a seisure,meds are expensive??

Answer 1

Depending on the breed of dog and the severity and occurrence of the seizure, there are home remedies that do work. There is nothing to give a dog while having a seizure, giving anything to a dog while it is having convulsions can casue them to choke. My Foxhound mix has had seizures since he was 1 year old, he is now nearly 8 yrs. He is aware of what is happening to him at the time and I just hold him until it is over.

The dogs diet can be very important and trigger seizures. Try a strict diet for about 6 months. Buy a dog food that does not have poultry or beef products. I have fed both Purina Lamb & Rice and Nutro Natural Choice Lamb Meal & Rice. These are both great foods becuase they do not have any artifical coloring or ground corn in them. You can also try adding Flaxseed to the dogs food. Flaxseed oil is easier to use then the seeds. You can only purchase Nutro at pet stores, feed stores, and most hardware stores. You can find all natural treats at pet stores if you feed them.

If you take your dog to the vet, they will probaly only do blood work. If that comes back fine, the dog will most likely be diagnosed with Epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause. There is no way to tell what is causing the seizures unless you do further testing such as a brain scan, and that can cause a few thousand dollars.

I currently have my dog on Phenobarbital to control the occurance of seizures,(been on it for 6 1/2 years). Before he was put on the medication he would have convulsions about every two weeks. He now has them about 5-6 times a year. Medications can cause liver damage in some dogs. This depends on the health, breed and dosage meds. It has never affected my dog.

If your dog has only a few a year or one every couple months, I would defiently try a home remedy before medications, Meds don't always stop seizure completly they usually help reduce and control them. If they occur more often talk to your vet about medication. Depending on the dosage, it would probaly cost around $10-$20 a month. Use a pharmacy instead of the vet, they are much cheaper.


Good luck with your dog.

Answer 2

I don't believe there is a home remedy for seisures. Please go to the vet. I have a little dog that has had seisures since she was 6 months old. She is now 9 years old. The vet gave her phenobarbital first. It didn't work very well and made her aggressive. Then he switched her to primidone. She has been on primidone for 8 1/2 years with no problems. She has seisures but not like before. When she first started having seisures they were like the grand mal-laying on the ground-foaming at the mouth type. Now when she has them they are not noticable to anyone who does not know her well. She'll kind of stare into space for a little while and look kinda confused afterward. This does not happen very often though.

The vet calls in a prescription to the Wal-Mart pharmacy where I get the primidone for around $40.00 for 100 pills. For a 10 pound dog, I give 1/2 pill in AM and 1/2 pill in PM. The 100 pills lasts over 3 months. That is cheap. Without it my dog would be dead.

Answer 3

There are no home remedys for seizures.
Dilantin or phenobarbitol should not be expensive.
You need to have the seizures proper diagnosed by the vet as to why the dog is having them and keep the dog medicated so he does not have more.
Every seizure he has you are risking his brain being damaged and him not recovering from it.
If you can not afford to properly medicate this dog look to see if you can get him into a rescue who can help him find a hime that can afford the meds.

Answer 4

No there are not any home remedies for seizures. Phenobarbital is not expensive, it can cause liver problems in dogs though. Talk to your vet about the different seizure meds and prices. You should not let a dog with seizures keep having them period. The poor dog is frying his brain with every seizure left uncontrolled.

Answer 5

Usually people who are looking for home remedies for t hings, and make their dog live in the basement, and tend to avoid the vet for whatever reason.. seem to be the same people that don't feed good quality dog food. I would bring the dog out of the basement. Take him to the vet and make sure he doesn't have any health problems. Don't keep bathing him, but feed him a good quality dog food and add fish oils to the food. Could be too that he has picked up fleas in the basement or some other thing.

Answer 6

The amount of misinformation people have (and insist on spreading) never ceases to astound me. *sigh*

Seizure medications themselves are generally pretty inexpensive, but the actual cost will depend on the dose needed by each dog. (A chihuahua costs a lot less to treat than a Great Dane, for instance....and some chihuahuas will require a different dose/cost than other chihuahuas. Great Danes/Irish Wolfhounds, etc. with refractory seizures can become quite expensive to treat, no matter which pharmacy you use.)

In refractory cases, we sometimes have to go to more expensive meds (sometimes even a combination of meds)....and some dogs incur more medical costs in diagnostic and therapeutic drug monitoring tests (which are REQUIRED BY LAW for phenobarbital), so some cases CAN become expensive if they are higher-maintenance. Once control is achieved, tests only need to be done every 6 months to a year, depending upon case specifics. In general, however, it's not very expensive at all to keep most dogs on anti-seizure medication.

It's not always necessary to do that, either. If the seizures occur less than once a month or so and are not very severe, we generally don't treat them....it doesn't harm the dog in any way to go through them on occasion. Seizures themselves are not terminal events (unless due to something like heat stroke, hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, etc.) and they do not cause brain damage if it's "just" epilepsy...unless it gets out of hand. They are DUE to a lowered seizure threshold, which can originate in the brain itself (idiopathic epilepsy) or be due to any number of other metabolic/physical disorders. In the latter case, identification and correction of the underlying cause makes the seizures go away....and treating with anti-seizure medications in that case does nothing but mask the underlying problem.

You cannot 'talk a dog through' a grand-mal seizure. They are completely and totally unconscious during it. If it's a petit-mal seizure, they might be able to hear a little bit....and keeping them calm can help EASE them through it just a tad, but won't stop it. All seizures are a direct result of specific changes in electrical activity in the brain, no matter what the cause.

There are no herbal anti-seizure meds. There ARE some herbal supplements that might or might not help, however. I'm not going to tell you what they are because it can't be determined whether or not they might actually HARM your dog without knowing his prior medical history, results of recent bloodwork, and examining him in person. Some of them don't hurt (and like I said, might or might not help...so I have no problem with people trying them if they want to, AFTER a proper medical evalulation.) But.....every herbal 'medication' I know of will cost you more than the appropriate pharmaceutical medication in the first place.

And again....I can't stress this enough....dogs with seizures caused by underlying disorders DON'T usually need specific antiseizure meds. If the seizures are triggered by a heart condition, the heart condition is what needs to be treated. If the seizures are triggered by liver disfunction/chronic pancreatitis, etc., the dog needs to be taken off of ANY people food and have those problems treated. If the seizures are triggered by diabetes, THAT must be treated. If the seizures are triggered by hypoglycemia (like in toy breeds), then the feeding type/schedule needs to be adjusted. If the seizures are due to untreatable underlying causes such as a dog being a distemper survivor, or having an open fontanelle (poor breeding in chihuahuas and Boston Terriers)....or if it's idiopathic epilepsy....then specific anti-seizure meds will be needed if...and only IF... the seizures are frequent enough and severe enough to warrant their use. Your DVM is the ONLY person who can determine that for your pet.

Keeping a very detailed 'seizure log' often helps veterinarians determine the cause of many seizures (if your DVM doesn't recommend and isn't willing to review such notes by you, find another DVM.) ***Actual Case Example*** I had an elderly couple once who wrote down EVERYTHING they could think of (because we told them to) whenever their dog had a seizure....what/when he last ate, the time of day it was, what THEY were doing that day...like if they had company, or perhaps were quarrelling with each other (some seizures are stress-related), the weather, etc. It was incredibly detailed (they were retired, and this was their baby.) After a few months of that, a common thread clearly emerged. Each and every one of their dog's seizures was precipitated by a drop in the barometric pressure. Simply by watching the weather channel and investing in some minor weather gauges themselves, they were able to keep their dog off of medication all the time, and give it only when there was an impending seizure, which they now could predict with good accuracy. Their dog was then seizure-free for years. THAT is an example of a good home remedy. :-)

And no....don't ever give a dog any medication DURING a seizure, unless you have access to an intravenous drug we use (you don't, because it's a controlled substance.) Your DVM can prescribe a rectal suppository if needed...because you CANNOT give oral meds while a dog is in the middle of a seizure. It's rare that that would be needed, anyway.

Answer 7

Talk this over with your vet. Once he's done a check up and has determined the cause of the seizures, he'll recommend some form of medication. you can then do a google or yahoo search for natural or home made alternatives similar in chemical composition as the medicine. Just make sure the cause of the seizures is properly diagnosed.

Answer 8

Your vet can prescribe phenabarbitol for your dog's seizures. It is not expensive. You can get it from the Wal-Mart pharmacy for around $12 for a month's supply. 2 of my dogs were on it.

Answer 9

no there is not a homeremidy i know how $ vets can cost so i aviod it when every possiable but if he has seiziers there is nothing but a vet that can treat him propmtly and i know that it will cost but if you love him please take him and get him so medicine
talk to your vet ask if you can work out a payment plan so you can get his meds And look in2 pet insurance
if you know that no matter what you can not care for him then please get rid of him
because he deserves a good life!

Answer 10

Please take the advice of the vet that answered above. Most people who answer medical things about dogs on Yahoo answers are talking out of their a$$e$.