Although I am very open to hear any verifiable information that EOs are not liver toxic for cats, just because some have survived does not mean they are safe for all cats, or even the one that survives.
I heard about Tee Tree a long time ago, being too strong for cats, and that they tend to immediately lick it off. I have actually had one cat's neck wound get larger and slough skin, taking much longer to heal when I used Tee Tree in a lapse of brain function moment -- I was so happy to catch her long enough to medicate her, that I did not stop and think, just what was closest. Right now on cat wounds or allergic skin stuff I use 20% DMSO and CS or just 50% DMSO. I have one semi-wild cat that gets bare weepy spots each spring and fall on her feet, belly, and neck. One application of 50% DMSO clears them up enough that they heal over, two would be better. Sometimes it is hard for us to believe sensitivities that vary so widely from what we know in other species or ourselves. Having been very chemically sensitive myself at one time, including all EOs, I can appreciate that most cats may not do well with them -- yet some may or may seem to -- liver function and challenges vary even in the sensitive individual. Dilute EOs may be tolerated on a short term or one time basis, but you have to ask yourself what are you compromising for the liver to handle even that much? We don't know. According to the Total Load Theory it is not the single exposure that does the damage, it is the total accumulation of all exposures and the toll they take, that then allows that one straw to "break the camel's back". Could be that cats are more sensitive these days due to genetics, lots of in bred cats out there, or city living. When there are safe-er alternatives why not use what we know is not harmful, isn't that the whole point of doing alt med in the first place? I love EOs now that I am well enough that I do not react to all of them, but I am still careful and some of them still bother me. I consider the impact of any strong substance as a possible contributor to total load and keep tabs on my level of toxicity, as far as I can perceive it, and do what I can pro-actively to keep that margin of safety in case there is an unavoidable large expsoure. I want my toxin level as low as possible. Including my pets. That means avoidance and constant detoxing in a world as polluted as ours. Most of the bad quality air we are exposed to is in our houses, where our pets spend most of their time. I have seen critters that are sensitive to a lot of things others will tolerate -- Northern Alligator Lizards, in fact probably all Alligator Lizards are also very sensitive to any chemical that has to be metabolized by the liver, you can not give them most chems that other sensitive amphibians and reptiles will tolerate -- seen the results up close. "First of all do no harm" comes to mind. Garnet On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 11:55, sol wrote: > Cats have a unique liver metabolism among mammals. You may have saved > your cats lives in the short term only to substitute liver damage down > the line. I repeat, this is one blanket statement that anyone with cats > should heed, ALL essential oils are extremely toxic to cats. All contain > the damaging chemical constituents, in varying concentration, true, but > cats simply cannot deal with them, and they WILL build up in the liver, > eventually causing serious liver damage and death. > sol > > Christine Carleton wrote: > > > Essential oils have saved my cats lives on more than one occasion. > > Also the lives of others cats. Blanket statements eliminating all > > oils are incorrect. Knowledge of quality and chemical constituents > > are paramount. > > Christine > > thebodytalkcli...@telus.net > > > > > > From: foxhill...@aol.com > > In a message dated 9/11/2004 11:00:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > > silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com writes: > > > > fredsus1 <freds...@hotmail.com>: > > > > > Tea tree can be great but it has the potential for > > being very toxic to dogs and is an ABSOLUTE no-no for cats > > (any EO is). > > > > > > Do you know why it is so? > > > > Roman > > > > . > > . > > >>> With cats it's a liver issue.... they cannot metabolize > > essential oils of any kind. > > > > mjh > > http://foxhillfarm.us/FireBasil/ > > > > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> >
