A Natural Remedy For Dog Dandruff
What you should do about your dog's dandruff is a concern that faces many dog owners or dog care givers. To somehow get oil into their coat or skin is the thing to do for the dog. Dandruff is uncomfortable, it itches, flakes into their eyes, leaves residue all over your nice furniture or nice sweater when you are handling the dog and is probably a sign of a less healthy diet or a sign of vitamin deficiency.
Many products are developed for dogs in forms of shampoo, supplements, coat conditioner, itch remedies and fortified dog foods. Products that help the dog retain moisture in the coat and its underlying skin are found beneficial by most pet owners of dogs. Of the products that are used by dog owners and approved by veterinarians, oatmeal shampoos are a very popular and basic stand-by staple to use often and keep on hand. Some owners wash their dog up to four times a week, while other dog care takers wash their dog every two weeks, either way oatmeal helps to lock in the natural oils, versus other shampoos, which may strip the coat or skin of its natural oil.
Treating the underlying itch can give the skin a chance to heal and replenish itself with natural oils from the inside of the dog's system. Iodine containing medicine that you add to the bath water, or human anti-dandruff shampoo that you mix into the pet's oatmeal shampoo can relieve the dog from itching, but you will still need to provide some additional oil producing agent for the time being, until the pet has no more dandruff. You can get additional oil by adding a little grease or oil from your kitchen, but this isn't as good as supplementing the dog's diet with Salmon Oil. Salmon Oil with Omega 3 fatty acids can be added to the bowl of dog food and found at most any pet shop for $14 or even lower if you shop around. Salmon oil hosts Omega 3 fatty acids of the type readily available to a dogs digestive system.
Daily supplementation will increase the coat luster, improve any skin issues and lower any allergies incurred through breathing that your pet may have. The salmon oil has an antihistamine effect on the dog as well as the ability to improve the skin and coat health of the pet.
How Does The Sleeve Gastrectomy Work?
The vertical sleeve gastrectomy is a restrictive form of weight loss surgery in which approximately 85% of the stomach is removed leaving a cylindrical or sleeve shaped stomach with a capacity ranging from about 60 to 150 cc, depending upon the surgeon performing the procedure. Unlike many other forms of bariatric surgery, the outlet valve and the nerves to the stomach remain intact and, while the stomach is drastically reduced in size, its function is preserved. Again, unlike other forms of surgery such as the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the vertical sleeve gastrectomy is not reversible.
Because the new stomach continues to function normally there are far fewer restrictions on the foods which patients can consume after surgery, albeit that the quantity of food eaten will be considerably reduced. This is seen by many patients as being one of the great advantages of the vertical gastrectomy, as is the fact that the removal of the majority of the stomach also results in the virtual elimination of hormones produced within the stomach which stimulate hunger.
Perhaps the greatest advantage of the vertical sleeve gastrectomy lies in the fact that it does not involve any bypass of the intestinal tract and patients do not therefore suffer the complications of intestinal bypass such as intestinal obstruction, anemia, osteoporosis, vitamin deficiency and protein deficiency. It also makes it a suitable form of surgery for patients who are already suffering from anemia, Crohn's disease and a variety of other conditions that would place them at high risk for surgery involving intestinal bypass.
Finally, it is one of the few forms of weight loss surgery which can be performed laparoscopically in patients who are extremely overweight.
Perhaps the main disadvantage of the vertical sleeve gastrectomy is that it does not always produce the weight loss which people would wish for and, in the longer term, can result in weight regain. This is indeed true of any form of purely restrictive weight loss surgery, but is perhaps especially true in the case of the vertical gastrectomy.
Because the procedure requires stapling of the stomach patients do run the risk of leakage and of other complications directly related to stapling. In addition, as with any surgery, patients run the risk of additional complications such as post-operative bleeding, small bowel obstruction, pneumonia and even death. The risk of encountering any of these complications is however extremely small and varies from about 0.5 and 1%. Having said this, the risk of death from this form of surgery at about 0.25% is extremely small.
As a general rule the vertical sleeve gastrectomy is best suited to individuals who are either extremely overweight or whose medical condition would rule out other forms of weight loss surgery. In the case of the former the vertical sleeve gastrectomy would normally form the first of a two-part plan of weight loss, with further bariatric surgery being performed once the patient's weight has fallen sufficiently to allow for other forms of weight loss surgery to come in to play.
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