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Monthly Holistic Animal Wellness Days

Ever wished you could offer your pets the same type of natural and holistic care that you use for yourself to relieve stress and stay healthy? Now you can! Bring your furry friends to a monthly Animal Wellness Day in Clinton and Asbury, where they can experience relaxation, emotional balance, immune-system building, relief from common skin, digestive, and respiratory issues, and reduction in inflammation or arthritis all through safe, gentle, effective holistic energy-medicine based techniques.

A joint offering from Sue Ann Seccia-Harnden, owner of Fifth Dimension Healing Energy LLC, and Virangini Cindy Rounsaville, owner of North Eastern Health Institute, the Animal Wellness Days program is aimed at providing holistic-minded pet parents with an alternative way to help keep their pets happy, healthy and enjoying a good quality of life.

Dogs, cats, and small animals are welcomed and served by appointment only. Consultations and treatments are 30 minutes long and include two 15-minute follow-up calls with the owner to check on the pet’s progress. The cost is $60 for a Reiki & BioMat, Homeopathy or SRT-EFT clearing session and $35 for a custom Flower Essence formulation for the pet and family.

Appointments are available on September 2 and 17, October 14 and 15, November 5 and December 10.

Location: Wellness Rocks, 28 Center Street, Clinton. Epona Pet Care, 460 County Road 614, Asbury. For more information, visit FifthDimensionHealingEnergy.net/Calendar, or call Sue Ann at 908-730-0658 or Cindy at 908-996-6761.

Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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