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Diarrhoea in Dogs – A Common Issue a with Simple Cure

Diarrhoea In Dogs, A Common Issue With A Simple Cure. Here’s Dr Conor Brady with more…

Diarrhoea in dogs is one of the main reasons people end up on our page. And we’re often not talking about the occasional episode here! Most of us would not be trawling for answers after just one occasion. The occasional stomach upset can happen to us all, certainly with dogs who get their noses into all types of things. However, it is more than likely that you are here as your dog is suffering from recurring diarrhoea and that is something we are total specialists at fixing.

Below are a few tips and a handy video to summarise the best approach to fix the issue so it doesn’t keep happening. If you need specialised help you can book me for a consultation.

The Cause of Recurring Diarrhoea in Dogs is The Wrong Food…

Everyone wants to know what they can put in to stop diarrhoea in dogs happening. However more important than what you put in at this point it what you take out of the diet, certainly for dogs where diarrhoea keeps happeningFar and away the most common cause of diarrhoea in dogs is wheat gluten (most dry food, dog treats, bread, pasta, biscuits, etc). But there are a number of other causes too. If your dog is suffering recurring diarrhoea then it’s likely you’re making some simple mistakes diet-wise. The first he’s likely to be dry fed. Dogs should be fed species appropriate raw dog food. That aside, the most common causes of diarrhoea in dogs is wheat but also nasty food chemicals and terrible pet store treats. Thus, I suggest, once you fix the immediate issue with the advice below, then please check out the most popular article on our site Allergy in Dogs. It will explain the dietary cause and solution to this all-too-common in dogs.

Leave your drugs in the chemists pot if you can cure your patient with food

Hippocrates, founder of modern medicine, 400yrs BC

The Immediate Solution to Diarrhoea in Dogs

The immediate solution to diarrhoea in dogs is the same as it is in humans

  • Skip a meal or two, let him dry up a bit
  • Rest
  • Leave out fresh, ideally distilled, water. The reason for this is that most water contains a lot of chlorine and that won’t help the struggling good bacteria in his guts. To this water, I would add with a pinch of good quality salt, something like Himalayan rock salt (find on Amazon) as it’s full of useful electrolytes. To this, I would also add a good tablespoon of local honey, not just for energy but it’s also great for troubled guts.
  • His next meals should be a nice, home-made, easy to digest diet. Ideally, this would be a plain, low-fat, easy to digest meal which you can make yourself. I recommend a 50/50 mix of carbs and cooked meat, e.g. tin of pumpkin and the equivalent weight in cooked turkey mince, or half porridge (boiled oats) with a tin of pacific salmon. Small meals.

BioFunction8 | Gut Soother Blend

  • BioFunction8 is especially for guts and contains herbal ingredients herbal that would be very beneficial now and more, though I would go for plain StoolRite myself first, and it’s a touch cheaper!
  • Adding some probiotics should help the micro-flora in the guts. Probiotic yoghurt is OK (always use the full-fat version, low-fat means high sugar which a troubled gut does not need) although any probiotics now would be great. The human type are fine. While dogs have different gut floras to us it turns out it’s in anaerobic bacteria, that is, lifeforms that do not like oxygen so you can’t make them in a lap and sell them in a shop. The human ones are usually better made with less crappy fillers, cheaper too. Pick up in the local health shop.

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