H1N1 Prevention for Animals

Since it now appears that both ferrets and one cat have contracted (what is believed to be) the H1N1 flu from sick human family members,

http://oregonvma.org/news/h1n1

 I’m looking for some flu prevention advice for these animals should someone in their household become sick with the flu.

Many of my friends and family and I have Influenzinum 200C on hand for prevention should we become exposed or begin to develop symptoms.  And in most cases, this is the ONLY remedy my not-so-homoepathically-literate friends have. 

Though this is a higher potency than I would like to use for an animal (generally speaking), couldn’t a very small watery dose of the Influenzinum 200C be safely used for cats, ferrets, and pigs?  How about birds?

Thanks for any advice.

Edward, thanks for the suggestion of further dilution in another cup or bottle of water – basically a type of split-dose dilution.  I hadn’t thought of that.

In this situation, it is likely that the genus epidemicus won’t be known.  And even if it were known, most people won’t have that remedy or ready access to it.

I’m not so concerned about whether or not Influenzinum will prevent illness altogether, but rather if it will attenuate or reduce in intensity any flu that does occur.  Though the idea of causing possible aggravation to a person or an animal is certainly an unsavory prospect, it is also likely that a family dealing with the flu is unlikely to pay much attention to the family cat until the animal needs prompt veterinary care.  At that point, the cat will be subjected to any number of orthodox treatments, none of which would win Hahnemann’s approval.     I’d rather see a homeopathic aggravation than an allopathic one.

You said:

“Where influenzinum may have an indiciation for use at the firsts signs of flu-like illness (to attenuate the disease?) this does not mean that it would be an effective preventative. Having tested this approach a little myself, it did fail everytime.”

I’m not sure what you mean.  Are you saying that Influenzinum failed to prevent illness even though it worked once symptoms developed?

Thanks very much for taking time to explain all this, Irene.  I have been following your posts over on one of the Yahoo groups but it is very helpful to have it all together here in one place.  I know it takes time to put information like this together, so thank you for that.

Good to know that potencies for animals are no different than for animals and birds!  I confess that out of necessity, I’ve used the same potency on a pet that I’d taken myself a few times and it worked just fine.  The only thing I did differently was reduce the size of the dose.

Sounds like those Fibonacci series remedies are a big hit!  Thanks for putting them to the test.  I’m sure Dr. Roz is thrilled to see them put to good use here in the USA.