[Dailydrool] Bud update

[Anita W.]

For Bud and Synthia – Apologies for taking so long to reply, I’m on Digest
and about ¼ of them just never show up.  Anyway, my Dachshund, Abby, was
diagnosed with a 3-4 heart murmur when she was about 8 years old.  She lived
to be 13, which is a pretty good age, even for a Dachshund.  The one thing I
would definitely start giving Bud (besides the prescription medications from
the Vet, of course) is Co-Enzyme Q-10. 

 

CoQ-10 is great for anyone (people or animals) who has heart problems
because it strengthens the heart muscle so that it can pump better, which
helps keep fluid from collecting around the heart ( which is congestive
heart failure).  This is what you have to watch for, eventually heart
murmurs get worse and turn into congestive heart failure.  I was never
overly scientific about how much I gave Abby, I’d buy the oil-filled gels
(don’t remember the mgs, too long ago), poke a hole in one and squeeze some
out into peanut butter and give to her twice a day.  She weighed about 17
pounds.  Experiment with how much you give him, start low and keep adding
until you can tell the difference in his behavior.  As long as Abby took her
CoQ-10 twice a day she did great, if I forgot to give it to her, next day
she’d have a lot less energy and would lie around and act like she didn’t
feel good.  

 

CoQ-10 will not harm Bud in any way, it’s something that all of us have in
our bodies, but like everything else, as we age we have less and less.  I’d
expect it to help him with energy and just acting like he feels good.
Statins deplete the body of CoQ-10, most doctors will recommend anyone
taking a Statin drug supplement with CoQ-10, and it’s definitely recommended
to people who have had heart attacks (like DH, who’s had three).  We’ll keep
Bud in our thoughts.  Good luck!!

 

Anita Woodrum

a.woodrum at sbcglobal.net

 

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