Pyometra

The Emergency Pyometra in Dogs: Risks, Symptoms + Treatment

Canine Pyometra - Why Some Dogs Don't Get Better With Medical Treatment or Experience Relapses

Pyometra in cats

Natural Remedies for Dogs

Coming on slowly over weeks or months, pyometra first appears as irregular heat periods and a discharge of reddish mucus from the vagina between heats. If unrecognized and untreated, it progresses to the point of severe depression, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, discolored vaginal discharge (not always present), excessive consumption of water and excessive urination. The large water intake mimics kidney failure, but the other symptoms help you tell the difference, particularly if there is a vaginal discharge and the animal is an unspayed dog or cat several years old that had many heats without being bred. A probable secondary cause is a high-hormone diet (from glandular meats or meat containing hormones used to fatten cattle). Concentrated in meat meal and other commercial pet food, hormones may predispose the uterus to malfunction.

Prevention, is simple -- the spay operation for the young female.

Treatment

Dogs (and sometimes cats) with pyometra can suddenly develop a crisis that may require surgical removal of the uterus, which often has become quite large and distended with fluid. The process is basically the same as a spay operation but much more serious and difficult.

Those animals not so severely affected may be helped by:

Homeopathic - Pulsatilla 30C. Use Homeopathic Schedule 3 This remedy is best for the animal that is not very thirsty (which is unusual) and wants to be comforted (petted or held). If there is a vaginal discharge it is usually thick and yellowish or greenish.

Homeopathic - Sepia 30C Use Homeopathic Schedule 3 . If there has been no improvement within 5 days of completing the Pulsatilla, use this remedy. It is often sufficient.