Probiotics for dogs
When we welcome a dog to our home, we need to be able to meet their basic needs and that requires good nutrition, which allows it to feel healthy and energetic.
- Sometimes.
- Because of inadequate feeding or other factors.
- A dog’s intestinal flora changes and this can have serious consequences on their health.
- Which can be avoided naturally.
That’s why, in this Animal Expert article, we show you probiotics for dogs.
As in humans, dogs also have an intestinal flora or an intestinal microbiota. It is a set of beneficial bacteria naturally present in the gut and vitally important to the health of our animal, as they perform the following functions:
There are many strains of beneficial bacteria in our dog’s intestinal flora, but we should point out the following as the most important:
Changes in intestinal flora can have several causes: although the most common are changes in diet, administration of a poor quality diet, rich in non-digestible proteins or antibiotic treatment has begun.
To restore the intestinal flora of our animal it is essential to determine the underlying cause to eliminate it, but at the same time we must resort to probiotics.
Dog probiotics are products formulated from strains of bacteria that normally inhabit the dog’s intestines and are beneficial for your health. They are not considered a drug treatment, but a nutritional supplement.
Probiotics should be distinguished from prebiotics and symbiotics, let’s see below the differences between each product:
Probiotics are especially recommended for diarrhea or gastrointestinal disorders and after antibiotic or parallel treatment.
It is very important to offer our pet a good quality product, and for this we recommend you to follow these tips:
Probiotics for dogs are completely safe nutritional supplements. Recommended treatment is recommended in the package to ensure proper restoration of the intestinal flora.
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