Integrative methods for seizure treatment

According to Fred Wininger, VMD, MS, DACVIM, seizures are 10 times more common in dogs than humans, making them a prevalent condition to treat in the veterinary field. At the Fetch dvm360^® conference in San Diego, he highlighted integrative methods for treating seizures aside from CBD and traditional anti-seizure medicine.

View the video below for the entire discussion. The following is a partial transcript.

Fred Wininger, VMD, MS, DACVIM: [Seizure management] is an area of intensive research and outside of traditional anti-seizure medications and CBD, there are different diets that have been purported to be of use, specifically the Purina NeuroCare diet with its medium-chain fatty acids. I think what we're really headed towards is surgical intervention [in veterinary seizure treatment] so [incorporating] things like brain stimulation [and] other analogs [that] they're using in the human field.