| Have you heard of Clavamox for cats? Antibiotics | | | | cat's health. After that consider a natural diet based |
| are useful tools in the modern medical arsenal. They | | | | on meat: cats are obligate carnivores and do not |
| can save lives: yours and your cat's. However the | | | | process non-meat substances well, if at all. Low ash |
| use of antibiotics has many unpleasant consequences, | | | | content and moist food can help reduce UTIs (urinary |
| for you, your pets, and for the world. | | | | tract infections) and supplements containing cantharis, |
| Clavamox, while a solid and useful antibiotic, combining | | | | uva ursi, and other natural ingredients can provide |
| amoxicillin and clavulanate, is no exception. If you | | | | natural antiseptic and diuretic effects, helping your cat |
| want to avoid using Clavamox or other antibiotics on | | | | maintain a strong and germ free metabolism through |
| your cats, however, the best time is before your pet | | | | natural homeopathic substances. |
| is ill: prevention is the ideal approach to reducing | | | | Even if your cat does come down with an infection |
| undesirable use of any medication. | | | | and your vet chooses to prescribe Clavamox for |
| Clavamox, like the amoxicillin it is based on, is known | | | | cats with UTIs and other bacterial outbreaks, you |
| to cause side effects. When dosed with Clavamox | | | | can support your cat's recovery using natural |
| cats may suffer loose stools and diarrhea. Some | | | | substances. The same formulas that can help avoid |
| animals experience vomiting, and no pet should be | | | | infection in the first place can reinforce and support |
| dosed with Clavamox when it is known to have an | | | | the effectiveness of the clavamox. |
| allergy or sensitivity to amoxicillin or related antibiotics. | | | | Using these substances is an effective way to |
| Further, the antibiotic is formulated to be particularly | | | | ensure that the antibiotic leaves few if any bacteria |
| effective at attacking amoxicillin-resistant strains of | | | | to reproduce and start a new, resistant infection. |
| bacteria, using Clavulanate as an enzyme suppressant | | | | Remember, prescribing Clavamox for cats may be |
| allowing the amoxicillin to perform an end-run around | | | | necessary, but allowing that prescription to leave |
| the chemical resistance of the bacteria. If we have | | | | resistant strains behind is not. |
| already been forced once to find a way around | | | | Confer with your vet before putting your cat on any |
| resistance, do we want to be forced to find another | | | | supplement, either before or during a period when |
| end-run fifty years down the line? | | | | you must provide Clavamox for cats' health. Follow |
| The less we prescribe Clavamox for cats, or for any | | | | dosing instructions carefully, with both the |
| animal including humans, the less likely a resistant | | | | supplements and the antibiotic: remember it is best |
| strain is to develop. | | | | for you, your cat, and the world to use antibiotics as |
| It is better to do everything possible to avoid using | | | | seldom as possible and with as little backlash as can |
| antibiotics in the first place, by managing the health | | | | be arranged. |
| of ourselves and our pets through natural means | | | | When their health can be maintained with natural |
| dependent on life-style, natural diet and supplements. | | | | methods rather than Clavamox cats are happier, and |
| Keeping you cat in a clean, sanitary indoors | | | | lead better lives, with fewer side effects...and so do |
| environment is the very first step in maintaining your | | | | you. |