There’s no shortage of scientific evidence suggesting using probiotics can benefit humans’ health in a wide range of ways – everything from boosting the immune system, preventing and treating urinary tract infections, improving digestive function, healing inflammatory conditions and preventing eczema. As modern science has a way of doing, these benefits are now being extended to our pets, with products specifically designed to work on their systems.
You will need to use a product designed specifically for pets – and the correct species. Probiotic formulas used by humans are developed specifically to fortify the bacterial species found in the human GI tract, however animals have specific strains of bacteria unique to their species.
Probiotics are identified by their species or strain, and different strains can have different effects. PAW DigestiCare 60™ probiotic for pets contains seven different strains of beneficial bacteria.
A quality pet probiotic can:
If your dog is taking antibiotics, a probiotic helps restore and maintain a healthy balance in the digestive tract by providing 'good' bacteria back into the gut – antibiotics kill bacteria that is causing an infection, but doesn’t discriminate between 'bad' and 'good'. As a result, the delicate balance of the digestive system is disturbed and the absence of good bacteria can result in poor digestion, diarrhoea, bloat and flatulence.
A multi-strain, multi-species probiotic and wholefood powder for the maintenance of everyday digestive health of pets.