| When faced with serious UTIs, veterinarians often | | | | infections fails to protect the bacteria growing where |
| prescribe clavamox for cats, a combination antibiotic | | | | they belong in the effort to eliminate them where |
| containing amoxicillin and clavulanate. The amoxicillin | | | | they do not belong. |
| attacks the bacteria, and the clavulanate suppresses | | | | If your cat has a serious UTI it may be necessary to |
| the formation of enzymes used by resistant strains | | | | prescribe clavamox. A bad UTI is dangerous enough |
| of bacteria when holding out against the amoxicillin. | | | | to your cat's health and survival that there may be |
| The reason for this one-two punch is that as humans | | | | no better way to handle the problem. However it is |
| learn to fight bacteria using antibiotics, bacteria learn | | | | wise to supplement with natural homeopathic |
| to fight back, each new strain using new techniques | | | | formulas taken from alternative medical traditions...and |
| to survive the medical assault of the drugs. Humans | | | | once the outbreak is under control it is vital to adapt |
| and bacteria are in an ongoing arms race, and our | | | | your care of the cat to ensure that further |
| careless use of drugs has only increased the speed | | | | outbreaks don't occur. Repeated rounds of clavamox |
| of the race. | | | | for cats places stress on the cat and increases the |
| Where antibiotics should be preserved as a last | | | | odds of a resistant strain of bacteria developing. |
| choice, they have become a first choice to vets | | | | The most important tools you have in changing your |
| pressured to provide quick fixes in circumstances | | | | pet's life are food, water, and supplements. Using |
| which would be better addressed through slower, | | | | these you can adjust pH, strengthen the immune |
| more natural treatments, first. | | | | system, heal minor irritations of the urinary tract, |
| Clavamox cats may experience side effects such as | | | | flush out bacteria, kill germs before they can start |
| nausea, loose stools, and dizziness. The clavamox will | | | | colonies, and ensure comfort and well being. |
| not only attack the bacteria in the cat's urinary tract, | | | | Avoiding clavamox for cats in most instances, |
| but may kill off many of the same strains living in the | | | | reserving it for rare, severe outbreaks of infection, |
| digestive tract. This is not a great side effect, or | | | | allows you and your cat to experience a natural |
| some sort of added benefit. | | | | health without the need to turn to antibiotics over |
| The primary bacteria of UTIs is e.coli, accidentally | | | | and over, in a chronic cycle of infection and |
| transferred to your cat's urinary tract during | | | | medication -- with all the ills either can cause. |
| grooming. Growing in the wrong environment the | | | | Whatever approach you choose, but sure to do it in |
| e.coli can cause serious problems, but in the digestive | | | | consultation with your veterinarian since urination |
| tract they are natural and help maintain normal | | | | problems can be very dangerous for cats. |
| digestive functions. Using clavamox for cat's UTI | | | | |