Vomiting
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I hide 1 of these in Buddy's food daily. He'll eat food thrown on the ground or garbage along walks and sometimes I can't get it out of his mouth. It's called Pearls and can get past stomach acid and has a high bacterial count. They're very small and round like a small pearl.
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Can you give a link to the article? I have seen people hawking coated probiotics, but have yet to see research confirming a need for the added expense of them.
Studies on probiotics don't confirm that. Perhaps because products like Fastrack have MASSIVE amts compared to yogurt… but studies on yogurt in humans haven't shown that either. If there is something new, am most curious to read it.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/lactobacillus-acidophilus-000310.htmOk, here is an article, not the one I read in a magazine at the vet's office….anyway:[http://www.academicjournals.org/ajmr/PDF/pdf2011/…/Akpinar et al.pdf -](http://www.academicjournals.org/ajmr/PDF/pdf2011/.../Akpinar et al.pdf -) describes the yogurt's culture and testing. If the recommended ph for yogurt for optimun action is 4-4.1 and the acid in the stomach of the dog is ph 1- and ours is around 5 then it can be concluded that the cultures are pretty much deleted. Yogurt for the dog's diet may be for the protein as in Ayo conditon where the doc's didn't want the stomach to produce the required acid for digestion (here is an interesting article comparing our stomach to the canine…:http://k9joy.com/RawFoodForDogs/DigestiveSystemExcerpt.pdf. So, I hope you got the information you requested. The pearls sound like a good idea!
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Well…. Just got back from the vet again... Now I started with the ID again,, one spoonful every fourhours... Hopefully he'll keep it down. Then is afternoon again, hopefully the last of the vet treatment!!!! ...The pills sound like a good idea,.. Hopefully it will helpavpid his stomach getting so irritated over stuff he eats on the street. This is the second time it's happened. The first time it was no big deal though , I gave him some omperazole and he was fine. This time was really bad!!!.. Ill look into it. I was thinking I was going to have to get him a muzzle, to walk with so he doesn't eat stuff that may hurt him.. But I don't want to do that....
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Okay first link doesn't work.
The 2nd is from a person hawking food, his book… not research nor accurate:But raw food is not simple to digest… it takes some very strong chemistry to
break down raw proteins. So, the dog's stomach will produce some large
amounts of strong acid, thus lowering the pH level down to somewhere
between 1 and 2!this very low pH level is much lower that
what your stomach can produce - a human stomach generally operates
around pH=5ACTUAL levels.. as pointed out, humans and dogs during digestion the same level
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/digestiv.htmThe stomach contains hydrochloric acid (HCl) strong enough to dissolve metal (pH about 1.5 to 3, usually around 2), which kills bacteria and helps denature the proteins in our food, making them more vulnerable to attack by pepsin.
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Glad Ayo is better!
