Cat skin problems are common, increasingly so in our modern, so called ‘progressive’ age. (Looking around, wouldn’t it be more accurate to call this age regressive?)

Symptoms are the body’s way of showing all is not well. They are not a problem in or of themselves. The general public is not aware of this. The veterinary profession has no idea of this or of the concept of health. So they get busy suppressing the symptoms.

Suppression of the symptoms of a body can seem to be curative in the short term, as they often disappear. However, in the long term, they cause a catastrophic effect on the general health.

To understand this condition, you have to understand health, or should I say natural health?

The skin is the least important organ of the body, so is used by anybody as the first avenue to release the pressure build up of poor health.

When I say least important, I mean it has the least impact on the body when it is used this way. The impact is far higher to the health of the body if this load is released through the kidneys, the liver, the lungs or the heart. Then it can become life threatening.

So cats skin problems are showing you that your cat has a health problem, but is dealing with it in a healthy way. If you like, their health has only dropped by one notch.

Why does the body do this? 

Health problems stem from two major areas. There are others, but these are the ones you can remedy to have a positive effect.

• One is deficiency (ie a lack of quality, species-specific nutrition).
• And the other is toxicity.

Of course it is possible, and sadly common, for both to be present in the modern cat (or dog or you).

Toxicity is a major problem today. Toxins abound in the air, the water, the home furnishings, garden chemicals, the food, the veterinary drugs. But the two really problematic areas are the food and the veterinary drugs.

The other is the food.

Commercial cat food has nothing to offer in the form of quality nutrition or species-specific nutrition. It is cheap ‘food’ masquerading as healthy. Most of it comes from human food waste.

It has many added chemicals to try to address the lack of nutrition, to flavour, to colour, to stimulate appetite and to preserve. All these dramatically increase the toxic load on your cat.

Veterinary drugs, including vaccine, are all chemicals. The common chemicals include mercury and aluminium, two neurotoxins most of us are trying to avoid. The levels are far higher than recognised safety levels.

Cat skin problems start when these toxins are too high for their normal excretion through the bowels, the urine, and the small amount cats sweat – through their paws. 

Cats don’t naturally drink much, so this adds to the elimination problem; they can’t flush the toxins out as easily as we do.

The type of skin condition is not of any great significance. That depends on the individual cat, their lifestyle and on their ancestry. 

So focusing on, say, eczema, dermatitis, acne, etc, is not likely to get you very far. This is simply the effect. Instead, the focus needs to be on the cause.

Veterinary treatment doesn't look for causes. They are not aware they are the cause in many cases. So their treatment is on suppression. The antibiotics, the hormonal treatment, the steroids.

These simply increase the toxin load. They suppress the symptoms. They do nothing to cure the cause of the problem. And they do everything to cause major, life threatening problems down the track.

A healthier approach is to provide quality nutrition and avoid the toxins.

And you can do both quite easily.

You start by feeding them according to how they evolved. Step number one. Absolutely essential. Everything else is secondary. A healthy, natural diet increases the health of the immune system, making it much more efficient at dealing with problems. It increases their nutrition in a way nothing else can, whatever the claim.

Health in a young cat can be restored quickly, if there have been no other complications. An older cat’s health may take longer to recover. No quick fix here. Just the slow, curative fix.

The second step, alongside the first, is to consider what veterinary drugs are absolutely essential, including the common worm and flea preparations. If you watch carefully, you'll notice that your cat's health improves so much with the new diet, most of these are no longer necessary.

That is not likely to please your vet or the drug companies.

However, a healthy cat is immune to disease. A healthy diet prevents worm and fleas infestations. Be very sure that Nature is already perfect, that man creates most (perhaps all?) disease in domestic animals.

Some cat skin conditions may need extra help. So alongside the diet conversion, homeopathic treatment supports a healthy immune system, without suppressing it. That needs professional guidance.

Let your cat skin problems light your road ahead. They give, unconditionally. All we have to do is to recognise the giving, receive it gratefully and learn from it.