Probiotics are a kind of beneficial bacteria that live in the intestines of dogs and play a role in protecting the intestines and stomach. Once the probiotics in the dog's body are out of balance, a series of diseases such as poor appetite, diarrhea, and vomiting will follow, and the originally healthy intestines and stomach will become "glass stomach"!
probiotics, know how much?
What is the use of probiotics?
Probiotics are small, but in the dog's body can play a big role, can be said to be a lot of use. Below, Dr. E summarizes several common functions of probiotics:
probiotics how to choose?
Common probiotics are mainly divided into "passers-by bacteria" (Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis) and "resident bacteria" (Bifidobacterium). The shoveling officer needs to choose according to the specific situation of the dog:
1 Crossing bacteria
As the name suggests, passing the probiotics of the intestines and stomach. After entering the intestinal tract, the passers-by bacteria consume intestinal oxygen, creating an anaerobic environment for other probiotics and allowing harmful bacteria to die without oxygen. The passer-by bacteria will not stay in the intestines and will be excreted with stool.
2 Resident bacteria
Resident bacteria is a probiotic that lives in the dog's intestinal tract for a long time. They attach to the surface of the small intestine to avoid the intestinal tract from harmful bacteria and maintain the balance of the flora.
Take probiotics, have skills!
The use of probiotics is also skillful. If they are used blindly, their effect will be greatly reduced.
1 quantity should be enough
Probiotics are anaerobic and will be consumed when taking them with air, stomach acid and bile. It can be said that they have to "go through five hurdles and cut six generals" to reach the dog's colon. If you take too little, there are very few probiotics left that can really work.
2 taken after meals
The dog's stomach acid has a powerful bactericidal function, will eliminate probiotics. After the dog's meal, the stomach acid in the body is almost consumed by food. At this time, taking probiotics can minimize the damage of stomach acid to probiotics. Therefore, 1-2 hours after a meal is the best time to take probiotics.
3 Warm water flushing
When taking probiotics in dogs, shoveling excrement with warm water at a temperature not higher than 40 degrees is the best. Probiotics are live bacteria, which are dormant after drying. If the water temperature is too high, the probiotic flora will change, and if the water temperature is too low, it is not easy to wake up the probiotics.
4 to eat in time.
As mentioned above, probiotics are anaerobic bacteria and are easy to "die" after encountering air ". Therefore, when shoveling excrement officials feed probiotics to dogs, they should take them as soon as possible once they are washed.
5 puppies should be fed more appropriately
The younger the dog, the more imperfect the flora in the body, so puppies need more probiotics to help establish a normal intestinal flora. Dogs should not eat too much when taking it for the first time, and then slowly add it.
6 When taken with adsorbent
When the dog diarrhea, shoveling excrement officer will feed some drugs to treat diarrhea, which may exist in these drugs adsorbent components, such as: montmorillonite (smecta), kaolin and so on. Adsorbents will adsorb water and toxins in the intestines to treat diarrhea, and they will also adsorb probiotics, so after taking drugs containing adsorbents, you need to take probiotics at intervals of more than 2 hours.
7 when taken with antibiotics
Antibiotics destroy bacteria, so probiotics cannot be eaten with antibiotics. After taking antibiotics, probiotics need to be taken at intervals of more than 4 hours.
Some misconceptions about probiotics
In the end, Dr. E clarified some misconceptions about probiotics:
Can yogurt replace probiotics? NO!
Edible yogurt is the product of milk fermentation. Its main ingredient is milk, not probiotics. The number of probiotics in yogurt is too small to have a good effect.
2 probiotics will produce dependence? NO!
The probiotics in the dog's intestinal tract are not produced by themselves and need to be supplemented and maintained by external food, so probiotics are not dependent. When improper diet, disease, etc. lead to the death of probiotics in the dog's intestinal tract, it is necessary to supplement probiotics.
3 probiotics taking excessive harmful?
Probiotic preparations also contain other ingredients, so do not feed too much. However, probiotics are active microorganisms. Excess probiotics in dogs will be excreted with stool and will not accumulate in intestines. Probiotics that cannot be excreted will multiply and die in dogs, so don't worry too much if you feed too much at one time.
Probiotics can cure all diseases? NO!
Although probiotics are good nutrition, but it is mainly used to treat dog intestinal flora imbalance and other diseases, other diseases can not be treated by probiotics alone. But probiotics can be an excellent teammate, paired with other drugs to help dogs recover faster.
