Natural way to deworm?

I specifically want advice from a vet. My puppy has diarrhea and other symptoms of worms. Is there a natural way to get rid of them?

Hello - and first off, worm control is hotly up for debate in the veterinary field.  After all, we are now so incredibly careful with antibiotic usage (to prevent  bacteria from becoming immune to antibiotics), while worms can evolve in response to exposure to antihelmintics and antihelmintics may seriously damage the environment.  Wormers have historically been given to some dogs every few weeks all their lives, regardless of their worm burdens or sometimes even their exposure to worms.  However, this has recently been changing, with experts suggesting that the use of wormers should depend on the risk factors for the individual pet.  Many of these risks are difficult for owners to control, for example:  dogs' exposure to sandpits, slugs and snails and other infected animals and their feaces.  Clearing slugs and snails at home, washing away slime trails and preventing dogs' access to their own and other dogs' faeces, can certainly help to naturally reduce the local worm burden.  Some vets will offer faecal analysis and assessment of the dogs' risk and geographical location before they decide how often a patient should be wormed.  Good questions might include:  -What do you propose worming my dog against?   - What is the risk of my dogs' burden of that parasite going above a safe level?   - can we monitor the levels and worm as and when needed, instead? ................................................................................................................................................................................................... However, in this case it's different; this dog is already showing signs of diarrhoea.  Something is causing this; it may be worms, but it may be dietary or even a sign of the pancreas or digestive tract having other diseases.  Worming a pup is one way of starting to rule out worms as a cause, although there may be alternatives to this, for example there may be tests or counts to see whether this is a concern; this is something to ask your vet (and potentially their pathologist) about. Other common causes of diarrhoea in pups include other dietary factors, liver disease and so on.  I know relatively about your dog and therefore cannot comment on this case, but we would highly reccommend asking your vet lots of questions.  If you look in the blog, there is a recent article by Robyn Lowe, 'Are we overworming our dogs and cats?' that you might find interesting.

Finally, you asked about Natural Ways to Deworm - let me come back to this.  The answer of course, depends on the word 'natural' which is always an odd one because this word has no binary definition.   It arguably isn't natural to keep dogs in houses, often in ones or twos, or to give them any medicine or to neuter them.  There are ways of reducing worm burdens that don't involve chemicals, as suggested above, but the word 'Deworm' sort-of implies getting rid of all of the worms, and the answer to that, to my mind, is that the employment of chemicals may acheive this best.