The Canine Parvovirus very often strikes at the least opportune moment (although there’s never a good moment for your puppy to be attacked by Parvo, of course) - you may find it’s 3:00am on a Sunday morning, and the veterinary clinic is not open.
So, what options do you have?
You may already know that pups suffering from Parvo are going to dehydrate super quick, which is the reason veterinarians will hook them up to an intravenous drip, but of course IV drips are generally not items you are able to simply buy at your local supermarket.
And if you do not know about the consequences of dehydration, a fast bit of research via the web will certainly immediately give you the information you’re looking for.
The good news is that there’s a hydration therapy you can do at home, which is, in the majority cases, at least as helpful as intravenous fluids and SubQ fluids …
… and it’s called the Parvo Emergency Tea Recipe.
What exactly is it?
It is something you can cook up in your own home, using products you can purchase at almost all decent supermarkets or pharmacies, and it is designed to accomplish two or three distinct functions.
To start with, it is a natural electrolyte liquid that can help prevent your sick pet from getting dehydrated. (We understand that many people, including vets, will probably advise using Pedialyte or Gatorade for this purpose, yet unfortunately our own experience indicates that these two liquids could potentially cause additional vomiting, which is certainly the last thing you want if your pup has the Parvovirus.)
Second, it can really help to reduce any throwing up - without any synthetic medications that could trigger, of course, additional health problems.
Third, a few of the herbs in the Parvo Emergency Tea will help give a boost to your doggie’s immune system, which will undoubtedly be under heavy attack from the Canine Parvovirus.
So, there are a few details you ought to be aware of with this emergency tea, the most important of which is that you must administer it each and every hour, and that does include both day and night, until such time as you are able to commence full treatment for the Parvo.
In reality, you’re pretty much behaving like a human IV drip, and one of the keys to treating the Canine Parvo virus ıs always to give smallish amounts of liquid frequently - mainly because dehydration is not the only danger with this virus - overhydration is as well.
However , a lot more critical than that, you need to realise that the Parvo Emergency Tea is NOT designed to take care of the Parvo virus - although it does indeed seek to mimic the Parvaid product using easily-obtained ingredients, it’s not even close to being strong enough to treat your suffering pup.
You must therefore NOT count on this tea recipe for getting your sick pup well again - it is made to buy you precious time and keep him going until you can get proper treatment started (and we do, needless to say, recommend the Parvo Treatment Kit).
While it’s true a very small number of puppies do seem to pull through using only the Parvo Tea (in addition to plenty of TLC), we’ve observed this occurs in about 0.1% of cases - and that’s approximately one dog out of every 1,000!
Are you prepared to gamble that your family dog will be one fortunate pup in a thousand?
We certainly wouldn’t - our dogs are unquestionably far too special to us.
Hence, though we’d always encourage you to make and give the Parvo Emergency Tea the instant you notice any of the classic Parvo virus symptoms (i.e. not eating, not drinking, not playing / being lethargic, dehydration, depression, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever or chills), please, for the sake of your dog, be sure to get him treated instantly!
One of our customers had a pet that died only five hours following the initial bout of diarrhea, which just goes to show how aggressive the Parvo Virus has become. This really is so quick that you hardly have time to react, which is just one of the reasons we strongly encourage all dog owners to have a Home Parvo Treatment Kit around at all times - just in case.