Aggressive Antibiotic Drug Therapy vs. A Holistic Approach to Environmental Parasitic Disease Syndrome
Trying to Fix a New Ferrari with Old Chevy Parts
With complete adherence to the feeding, thyroid, if necessary and Environmental Illness supplement protocol--and I repeat, using the COMPLETE protocol--antibiotic drug therapy, so far, has not been necessary, for restoration of health.
Violating the protocol with alfalfa, pelleted or extruded feeds, low protein grain mixes and those "fortified" with phosphate and sulfate chemical forms of minerals or not paying attention to the daily temperatures and thyroid protocol can mean the difference between a successful program and an unsuccessful one. Many old wives' tales and old feeding preferences still exist and are often a very emotional topic among horse owners. Even so, the ones that worked well for my grandfather will not work well for me now, because it's a different world out there, with different parameters and different factors affecting us.
For all practical purposes, we may as well be in a completely different latitude, elevation, weather pattern, etc., with a radically changed environment. That's how much the world has changed at the biochemical level since the invention of plastics, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, heavy metals, and solvent chemicals in the environment, both as active functional factors and as pollutant wastes.
It's a different planet now. Petty emotional responses about convenience and such that prevent new applications of successfully demonstrated principles that work, especially when the old ones don't, need to be eliminated. That goes for professionals of all levels as well as mainstream society. We either "buck up" or "drop out" and continue suffering and trying to manipulate obsolete mechanisms. These people are like automobile mechanics trying to fix a 1999 Ferrari with 1956 Chevy parts.
So, to not become as polarized and short-sighted as the "drop outs,"in denial and to include the possibility of a few Environmental Illness who don't follow the rules of Nature, I say to those of you with newly diagnosed EPM or other opportunistic infection horses who are not yet severely debilitated and in danger of eminent death beginning this program for the first time, "try the program for seven to ten days, or even two weeks to a month, without drug therapy and see how the horse does."
If you see no improvement, no stabilization, and a decline, you can always add the drugs later.
Normally, for those of you who are educating yourselves with this material, you will not wait until the disease is severe to do something about it, and a short time is not a crucial length of time to make a difference with any of the heavier antibiotic or antiprotozoals drug therapy anyway. We all wish that we could manipulate Mother Nature to the point of our ultimate conveniences in daily life, but She has her own ideas on that matter!
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