groomer
Hi Dr Falconer,
This whole conversation prompted me to call them up, as it is two partners, both of which I love, and I called to get clarification as this subject had confused me as well. Well it was the guy who I normally do not talk with as often about any questions regarding our system. He informed me that they advise no Microbubbles within a week of topicals, as the negative ions would bring out the topicals, especially as these topicals already say no water baths for a week or something. Our dogs do not get those toxic topicals anyway, we use neem and essential oils, Neem oil, nematodes, and Boric acid you recommended last year destroyed our flea infestation, it was a bad year for those pests.
So I went into what I was told last year and elaborated that even at one of the Tradeshows it was reiterated about the shots and I was wondering the mechanism of the microbubbles, how it effects a dog who just had shots, etc.
He was not sure so he got on the phone with their vet, and his partner must have misheard it or something, because they were referring to topicals. I know multiple times I was told shots, so I was only going with what was said, however it has been clarified. There is no evidence at all about any effects of microbubbles given within one week of the shots (I had asked how this was measured, eg a study with dogs that received titers and one group had received microubbles and one had not, etc) , however there are cases of dogs that had hairloss at the vaccine site and after their 3-2-1 protocol the dog regrew hair in that spot (which we have seen as well, not sure if it was the vaccine site on dogs we have helped). Therefore if our next puppy gets a forced rabies shot, we will still rush him home for a microbubble bath for his skin care. I would be thrilled if his next titer revealed no titers, lol, even though it is unlikely and I do know titers do not measure cell mediated immunity.
Next puppy we are having a hard time with on this whole idea of Rabies shots, I want to train him as our service dog, however I really do not want to deal with even one shot that is unnecessary as our breed we do not worry one bit about them biting anyone, and they are always at our side. For example, the tradeshow we love their new center they are going to have made it abundantly clear they are checking every dogs rabies status under Texas law, and that they hope to stay at this location, ugh, so frustrating!! I hate our laws!
I wish I knew the vet that lady mentioned in comments on one of your blogs that he looks at her, she shakes her head No, and he hands her certificate.