Many owners love their dogs and always keep their dogs full. However, a full-fed dog is not vigorous but seems sick, lazy, and has abnormal bowel movements. Dogs are just like humans. Gastrointestinal health is essential. Without good digestion, no amount of nutrition will help! Can giving dogs probiotics improve their gastrointestinal problems? What is the function of dog probiotics?
When to use probiotics for dogs
First of all, we must determine the dog’s gastrointestinal condition and know when it is appropriate to supplement probiotics. If the dog has vomiting and diarrhoea at the same time or is sure to have symptoms related to gastroenteritis, be sure to see a doctor first. Severe gastroenteritis will kill the dog, and the owner must not take it lightly.
The typical dog gastroenteritis is bacterial gastroenteritis or food poisoning. This gastroenteritis will cause many harmful bacteria in the dog’s intestinal tract, destroy the balance of the intestinal flora, and cause the dog to have diarrhoea or even vomiting. It is recommended to use drugs to inhibit and reduce the excessive breeding of harmful bacteria and then supplement with prebiotics and probiotics so that the good bacteria can be effectively attached to the intestines and have enough nutrients to help restore the dog’s intestinal health.
Therefore, in the case of gastroenteritis, do not rush to give the dog probiotics at the beginning. Use the medicine for 3-5 days to see the dog’s recovery. If the diet can restore a small and frequent diet, you can supplement the dog with probiotics. Let good bacteria grow, and strengthen intestinal immunity and health.
In addition to the above conditions, for other gastrointestinal problems, probiotics can be used with a small number of meals or with drugs as adjuvant therapy to help dogs digest difficult-to-decompose food, improve flatulence, establish an excellent intestinal environment, nutrition Absorb and upgrade.
6 major functions of pet probiotics
(1) Healthy peristalsis and defecation:
Using a sufficient amount of live bacteria that can effectively reach the intestines can quickly increase the good bacteria in the intestines. Tract cells promote intestinal health, effectively form healthy stools, and reduce sticky stools and constipation.
Dogs with diarrhoea caused by weaning, indigestion, food allergy, flatulence, stress, etc., can adjust intestinal restlessness and mucosal secretion and restore normal defecation.
(2) Inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria:
According to research, many diseases and cancers are related to the proportion and division of colonies in the gut. Increasing the good bacterial community in the heart can reduce the possibility of toxins entering the body and can effectively inhibit the damage to intestinal function and induce various diseases. Harmful bacteria can relatively reduce the production of certain conditions. When the good bacteria in the intestines increase, they can capture the oxygen needed for the survival of harmful bacteria, produce lactic acid that can inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria, occupy the adhesion position of harmful bacteria in the intestine, effectively inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria in multiple directions, and restore a healthy intestine. Micro-ecological environment to prevent common gastroenteritis and diseases.
(3) Establish intestinal immune barrier:
Like humans, the dog’s gut is the body’s second immune system. The intestinal biological barrier is like a protective wall. If it is broken and hollow, bacteria can easily invade the blood circulation and run to various body parts to attack and cause diseases.
Supplementing probiotics can repair and rebuild the intestinal biological barrier, induce the intestinal mucosa to produce various antibodies, enhance intestinal immunity, and enhance the dog’s ability to resist bacteria.
(4) Promote nutrient absorption:
Young (before one-year-old) and older (after 4-5 years old) dogs need adequate nutrition the most. Puppy dogs need a lot of nutrients to develop and grow, and their gastrointestinal tract has just been created, so they need to be enriched. Bacteria settle in to help form an excellent immune barrier. In older dogs, various body organs, including the gastrointestinal tract, begin to decline, and retaining the nutrients in the food is challenging. If you want to help the old dog maintain its eyes, joints, etc., it is impossible to absorb these additional added nutrients Effectively. In addition to puppies and old dogs, some dogs with picky eaters, or dogs in recovery after surgery and antibiotic treatment, can also use probiotics to promote the normal digestion, absorption and peristalsis of the intestines, help decompose and regenerate, Absorb food residues, allowing dogs to absorb complete nutrition effectively, grow, repair and restore health.
(5) Improve oral and faecal odour:
The staple food of dogs is mainly protein. If protein is not digested and absorbed, it will quickly produce sulfur-containing gas after being decomposed and fermented by bacteria in the large intestine. The oral cavity, also the digestive system, forms bad breath. Probiotics can help dogs completely decompose and digest protein in their diets, reduce gas-producing harmful bacteria such as Capsula aerogenes in the intestines, and effectively improve the mouth’s and faeces’ odour.
(6) Excellent assisting role:
Probiotics have an excellent synergistic ability and can be taken in combination with a variety of drugs, nutritional products, and foods for a long time, without interfering with or inhibiting the action of medicines and food nutrition or causing side effects, and can further promote the body’s absorption of nutrients, and reduce a variety of medications. toxic side effects.
