Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract. 2015 Mar 30. pii: S0195-5616(15)00031-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2015.02.009. [Epub ahead of print]
Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Lower Urinary Tract Diseases.
Abstract
Consumer
use of integrative health care is growing, but evidence-based research
on its efficacy is limited. Research of veterinary lower urinary tract
diseases could be translated to human medicine because veterinary
patients are valuable translational models for human urinary tract
infection and urolithiasis. An overview of complementary therapies for
lower urinary tract disease includes cranberry supplements, mannose,
oral probiotics, acupuncture, methionine, herbs, or herbal preparations.
Therapies evaluated in dogs and cats, in vitro canine cells, and other
relevant species, in vivo and in vitro, are presented for their
potential use as integrative therapies for veterinary patients and/or
translational research.
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
