Curated by Maria Rita Insolera, Naturopath
Prostate enlargement is a common complaint in adult male dogs. Natural remedies can help prevent the onset of more frequent complaints. Let's find out what they are.
Urogenital apparatus of the dog
What is the prostate
The prostate is a fibromuscular and glandular organ of which only male dogs are equipped, the size of a chestnut, which is placed between the lower urethra and upright. The enlarged prostate causes mechanical compressions to both one and the other.
Symptoms of dog prostatitis
The symptoms of the dog's enlarged prostate are clearly visible. The dog defecates with fatigue and during the efforts to evacuate the prostate it moves further up, preventing or making it very difficult to expel the stools, which may appear "ribbon".
The compression of the urethra, instead, causes urinary retention first and then, when the extended bladder loses tonicity, total incontinence or drop by drop, sometimes with blood loss.
The situation may be such as to make evacuation and / or urination impossible with consequent danger to life. In these cases surgery or with hormonal substances is a must.
Prostatic hyperplasia, if it has not reached serious levels, is not in itself painful, when instead the prostate is inflamed and suppurating, that is in the presence of prostatitis, there may be violent pain and very high fever . The intervention of the veterinarian in this case is inevitable.
Dog prostate: cures and natural remedies
The prostate gland can cause problems in male dogs over 6 years of age . Although not all of them have obvious clinical symptoms, the very high incidence of the problem makes us think about the need to intervene early and with natural remedies so that the organic balance is maintained and there is no need for emergency surgery.
The most common alteration is the overall enlargement of the gland (hyperplasia). In simple hyperplasia and also to prevent it, a natural remedy such as Sequoia can be used effectively.
Of the sequoia in phytotherapy, young shoots are used, which have energetic properties, general stimulants and which, in males, regularize the genital apparatus with beneficial effects on the prostate gland: Sequoia gigantea (glycerine macerate), from 10 to 40 drops in the morning, diluted in a little water or distributed in very little food.
Preventive care should be done once a year, continued for a month, two weeks off, another month. In the case of an already enlarged prostate, the cycles must be repeated several times, until the gland is reduced. Thanks to its stimulating and energizing action of the senescent organism, the use of the redwood derivative of the giant Sequoia accelerates the recovery of strength in the case of neuroasthenia in the elderly dog, thus exerting a good action both physically and psychologically.
