Healing cats with allergies starts by understanding what causes them. No amount of wonderful treatment will do any serious or long term healing until the causes are addressed.

First though, let's look at the typical symptoms.

Typically, these are sneezing, coughing, watery eyes and nose and itching often with intense scratching. The skin may become red. Over grooming can occur, leading to bald patches. Rashes are not uncommon.

Sometimes, the scratching is blamed on fleas, but fleas can be absent.

The areas affected can be anywhere, but often include the neck, the tail, along the back, around the ears, around the groin.

The bowels and the renal system are responsible for clearing out natural waste in the system. But also, unnatural waste, or toxins. This means diarrhoea and renal issues can also be a sign of allergies.

There are causes for every dis-ease. Very often, the causes can be multiple as the body really tries hard to maintain health even in the most unhealthy environments. Life is tenacious!

Often, one problem is simply the final straw that lead to the immune system's inability to maintain good health.

Veterinary tests are of little value because they don't understand the big picture. All they can do is to point the finger to perhaps a food or pollen.

However, these are usually naturally occurring phenomena that a healthy cat will have no issue with.

Avoiding said food or pollen is often either not possible or has no effect.

Here, two of the REAL causes are examined.

First the diet. Commercial cat 'food' is mostly from the rotting waste of human food. It is topped up with inappropriate food for our carnivores. Then chemicals are added in a vain attempt to add some nutrition to an otherwise nutrient bankrupt trash, to preserve, to flavour, to colour.

Chemicals are toxic.

This 'food' keeps cats alive, but it doesn't keep them healthy. Malnutrition is rife. The immune system struggles big time.

Second, the veterinarian drugs, and vaccines in particular, create chaos in an otherwise well organised and perfectly functioning immune system.

Again, these are toxic. They need to be eliminated.

First of all, YOU have to make some changes. YOU are the only person who can change the diet. Feeding your cat a biologically appropriate diet goes a long way in restoring health.

A healthy and properly functioning immune system relies heavily on a healthy gut and digestion.

A cat is a carnivore. Carnivores need fresh and raw meat and bones. Not plant protein so common in the commercial muck. And certainly not highly processed plant isolates.

Depending on many factors including the past treatment and the age of the cat, this simple change maybe be the complete answer in restoring the immune system to its former glory, allowing the cat an allergy-free and vibrantly healthy life.

However, sometimes extra help is needed. And that extra help needs to be supportive of what the body is trying to do.

The veterinary solution is limited to steroids. These suppress the immune system. They also destroy organs. This means your cat will have a shorter, and a more miserable, life. Cats dislike drugs. It dulls their instincts and natural feelings.

Instead of suppressing the immune system, the cat need a properly functioning one.

Homeopathic treatment supports naturally healing cats with allergies. Or cats with anything. Or anyone with anything!

Homeopathy works in accordance with the body's best efforts. In so doing, healing occurs. However, that healing is unlikely to be limited to the allergies. Classical homeopathy looks at the whole patient including the allergies.

This means everything starts to improve.

However, this necessitates working with a professional homeopath.

Don't mix up roles. Your job is to change the diet to a healthy one. A practitioners job is based on their knowledge which you may not have access to.

Healing cats with allergies often needs this double approach. It can open you up to a whole new way of thinking about health.