Why looking for alternative medications, a RI is something serious and while alternative medications may alieviate the simptoms the RI keeps lingering and ultimately becomes fatal.
A RI is not the equivalent of a cold in human but more of pneumonia obviously you would not try to get rid of a pneumonia with tree oils.
A GOOD vet (not one talking about tree oil ) will run a culture to established what kind of RI you are dealing with, prescribe the right anti-biotics (injectable not oral) and will do so for a length of at least 30 days.
Now if a RI persist even with proper treatment the animal immune system might be weak and compromise or you might be dealing with something different that does present itself as a RI but that more difficult to treat.
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