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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wud" data-source="post: 270879" data-attributes="member: 13578">Re: Wud's project 365Okay this is really.. could it be?? My dog has a thing with his ear, he been looked in the ear normally by our vet twice and then he has been going to chiropractor/osteopath several times, and they more or less always found something in his scalp/chin/around the ear to fix, so obviously we thought that was the problem. Last week I talked to his rehabilitation lady about this and she said, we should get an appointment where he would be anesthetized, because there can be something way further down/in. I've of course been googling my behind of, to see if I could find ANYTHING which would make sense to what happened, anything else than epilepsy. (I do know its not a death sentence, but I would really love this seizure to be something easily fixed..).And look what I found!! (First listed a number of things, that could trigger a seizure): <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And seeds in the ears!</li> </ul>Our vet in Cascade, Idaho, Keith Ruble, pulled some long, skinny, black "sticky" (barbed) plant seeds out of both of Jetta's ears. (They hadn't caused an obvious infection, just a severe irritation. One thing it lead to was some loud breathing, as though she'd gotten asthmatic.)  It's a good thing he knew to look for them, especially since the thin black seeds were attached to thin black hairs! In the 6 years since he first bumped into this in vet school (with a convulsive dog that had been given every other kind of test by the stumped faculty), he's seen about a dozen cases of seizures in dogs clear up when "barbed" plant seeds (e.g., foxtails - that's just one kind) were removed from deep inside their ears.  (You know why forget-me-nots are called that? - yep, their seeds stick to hair and clothes!)...Not all vets are aware of this seeds-in-the-ear seizure connection! - and those darned seeds are everywhere.  So be sure it's checked out if this happens to your animal.  Keith sees grass-seed seizures in cats and rabbits, too (though not in cows or horses, whose ears and/or head height, perhaps, don't invite the problem) - and it's even happened in humans.  The ear drum is right near the brain! - so anything bumping or rubbing against it, or perforating it, could wreak havoc on the other side, sending the wrong signals to the body's power source.(It's difficult to see the pertinent ear drum area in a dog, as the canine ear canal has an elbow-joint in it.  A veterinary otoscope has a longer cone tip on it than a human one, and you have to make the dog uncomfortable to get past the "L".)Full article here: <a href="http://www.alternativepethealth.com/seizures.html" target="_blank">Seizures in pets - natural healing options</a></blockquote>

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