Okay so i have a dog, who is around thirteen or fourteen. I know she has allergies, and some arthritis, but is not taking medicine for either. Today, she threw up all over the house, and she wont eat or drink. I even tried giving her regular food, but she wont take anything. I’m really worried, shes my best friend. If i need to go the vet, I’m going to have to convince my parents to take her. So any ideas or advice would be hugely appreciated.

Other than arthritis, my health is pretty good. But it seems like one of those kind of ailments that there will never be a cure for.

Zero deaths caused by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbs
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) To hear opponents of natural medicine say it, vitamins and herbs are extremely dangerous for your health. They should be regulated, we’re told, because they’re so dangerous!

Statistics from the U.S. National Poison Data System prove otherwise. According to a 174-page report just published, the number of people killed in 2009 across America by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbal supplements is exactly zero.

Compare that to the 100,000 (or so) Americans killed each year by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals — and that’s even according to studies published in JAMA. Also consider the thousands of women harmed or killed by medically-unjustified cancer treatments following false positives from faulty mammograms. And don’t forget about the more than 16,500 Americans killed each year from internal bleeding caused by NSAIDs (over-the-counter painkillers).

As the July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains:

“Conservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone.” (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Recent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy”, The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)

So if NSAIDs alone are killing 16,500 people a year (or likely much more now, as use of these drugs has risen significantly since 1998), and nutritional supplements are killing zero people a year, why do health regulators try to scare everybody about vitamins being so “dangerous?”

Pharmaceuticals, meanwhile, are openly allowed to be prescribed for off-label use, meaning that doctors can prescribe them for diseases and health conditions for which they’ve never even been tested!

What’s wrong with this picture? It’s clearly a war against nutrition — a war against natural medicine — being waged by the health regulators of the world who are conspiring with Big Pharma to keep the people trapped in a state of malnutrition (all while profiting from their disease by selling them more patented pharmaceuticals).

The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service published a full article on this issue. Here’s what they had to say about the safety of nutritional supplements and the misguided attempts by world governments to limit or outlaw many supplements.

No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs
Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements’ Safety

There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John’s wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Two children died as a result of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other “Electrolyte and Mineral” category death was due to a man accidentally drinking sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener.

No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period.

61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is “one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking.”

Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so “dangerous,” as the FDA and news medi

I have pet insurance that covers 4k per year on both my dogs. I have found that since the vet I use has found out the limit and I love my dog so much I listen to him as to what he needs, allot of ‘extra’ things are popping up on my bill which would not normally.
An example would be that my Boxer fell and sprained his knee recently in the snow. One vet said it required Metacam and rest for 2 weeks. When I saw another vet for the same condition in her absence, he said GA and to open the leg up to inspect what was going on to prevent any arthritis in future as a precaution. The bill would be in excess of 2k for this. So, two vets and two opinions but my dog is not in any pain and walks well but with a slight limp on bending due to the bump.
If it was my leg, a GP would not book me in tomorrow for a knee operationa dnw ould try other non invasive treatments first right? what would you do?

I think my dog is developing arthritis.
She looks really stiff and walks funny when she gets up from lying down for a while. She is approx 7yrs, slightly overweight, half collie half corgi.
And she’s my baby!

Any advice?
Is there anything that could help?

I’m 28 and my little sister is 12. Now first I love my little sister very I’m like her second mother. Hell I used to take care of like she was my own. Anyway, my sister gets excellent grades. She is in all accelerated classes and gets straight A’s. She’s on the honor society and the national deans list. She’s plays the piano and is in choir. I am VERY proud of my sister and I brag about her all the time. With that says she gets whatever she wants. Like last week my parents, bought her an IPhone. My brother (22 yrs old) was outraged. In his opinion no 12 yr old should not have an IPhone. Also my sister demands that my mother buys her restaurant food for her school lunch EVERYDAY. To give you a background my mother is 57 yrs and has rheumatiod arthritis. Her hands are severely deformed because of this. Anyway my grandmother is the one that told me about my sister demanding lunch be brought to her everday. When I heard this I was angry. The school she goes to provides them lunch and when I was growing up I had to make my own damn lunch as well as my brothers. I just dont want my sister to grow up thinking she deserves special treatment all her life. In fact, I suggested that once my sister starts high school she could live with me. I live in the city and there’s this wonderful college prep school near my house and my sister could go to. http://uiccollegeprep.org/. My mother said she would think about it.

I have a 10 year old Great Pyranese mix. She’s in good health except for some arthritis and a cist on her tail. It’s a little bigger than a golf ball and the Vet tested the tissue and said it doesn’t appear to be malignant. He didn’t notice that it has grown in the past year either but he brought up the idea of surgery. Supposedly my dog is well enough for that.

I just don’t see putting my dog through surgery to remove it if it’s not causing any real problem. I don’t see it bothering her much. The worst it’s done is drain two times that I know of. My dog was sore and babied her tail when it drained, so maybe she bit at it or something, but I gave her dog asprin and she was fine the next day.

Is this worth surgery?

Friends and family didnt know what it ment when three year old me couldn’t bend or stretch, had trouble walking felt to stiff to even run with the little kids. Doctor to doctor, nurse to nurse would we ever find the cure? As the doctors words rolled off his tounge in sorrow”I believe your daughter had juvinal rumitowed arthritis” the parents cried to hear the awful news thinking”dear god what are we going to do?” X-ray to X-ray, as parents wait and pray. Never screaming or fussing through all the rushing doctors, kids, patients, parents. “does that hurt?” doctor asks but at last I timidly say “just a little” not wanting to give all pain away to the ones worrying for me and praying there hearts away. Now I’m five and fifty five pounds never want to eat never want to frown. Medicine to medicine always hurting or tasting bad but I always took it with a slight gag. Braces and braces on so many areas can’t sleep cause of them. Wake up in the morning crying “mommy,sissy take the pain away!” they just try to help In anyway possible with tears in eyes not try hide. Eventually and it’s gone and the usual smile returns to my over tired, over worked, over skinny face where it will stay for the long days and days ahead that I would quietly dred inside my head. Watching ballerinas on tv wishing that’s what I could be. “mommy I want to take ballet” she looks with saddened eyes knowing it wouldn’t work saying “honey someday we will” letting her down easy without a dought knowing she is sad. Longs days, mornings, evenings, nights have past till finally the arthritis has passed. Everyone full of joy me running up the down the hospital halls faintly hearing the doctors small voice”it can return but she should be fine” parents are happy to at least know there little girl can enjoy being little again.Ten years old in dance and people already couldn’t stand a chance. Working hard with all my might wanting to get each move perfecly right.

so for a while a stray dog would come to my house and i would feed her b/c she looked thin and she seemed to be an old dog w/ arthritis. so i feed her whenever she would come to my house and she wouldnt get to close to me since she was scared. i soon found out that she belonged to someone who lives outside the neighborhood.so i reported the person to animal control b/c the dog was thin and the owner allowed the dog to wander and the dog had to cross the street every time it went into the neighborhood.
so a few days later after i emailed animal control i was concern about the dog b/c if she was taken away from the owner and taken to the animal shelter(it a kill shelter) she wouldnt have much of a chance of being adopted since she was old and seemed to have a few medical problems.
so i email animal control again to c what happend and they said that they talk to the owner and she said that the dog was in that condition b/c she was old. and that now she will take her to the vet. i was thinking that it was crazy that she would say b/c she is thin b/c of her age but if she knew that y didnt she take the dog to the vet and take better care of her.
so do u think it was ok that the dog is still going to stay with her or was it ok for animal control to give her another chance and let her take the dog to the vet.
i am happy about what i did and dont regret it since she is getting the medical treatment she deserve.

I am having some blood tests done thursday for a few different options like rheumatoid arthritis and hypothyroid, but I was wondering what you think..
I am 25 and have an 18mo old.
Tired often
Sore muscles
Achy joints
Painful fingers and tingling hands (especially after sleep)
Lack of energy
Low to no sex drive
Super dry skin and hair
I basically feel like crap all the time. I am normally active and work on my feet at my coffee shop. I eat fairly healthy and don’t get sick. I am young so it makes it harder to understand. That is why I am being tested. Anyone have an opinion? Thanks!