Digestive Support

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Digestive Support

Domestic animals, like humans, are subject to the damaging effects of cooked and processed foods, food additives, environmental pollution and the stress of modern day living. All of these factors can affect digestive functioning and lead to a range of digestive disorders.

Regular use of Digestive Support will help to:

Improve digestive functioning
Reduce inflammation and excess mucus discharge
Relieve and treat the painful symptoms of stomach ulcers
Reduce vomiting caused by illness, stress and digestive disorders
Detox the digestive system
Soothe gastric mucus membranes and inflammation
Improve energy and general well being and protect against infection
Relieve symptoms of gastritis, esophagitis, IBS, colitis, enteritis, bloating and other chronic digestive disorders
Assist in recovery after gastritis and other acute digestive conditions

Many holistic vets also blame over-vaccination for the rise in chronic illness, including digestive complaints, in domestic pets. As pet owners, we try to do the best for our animals and to feed them healthy, nutritious food that will not harm them. However, advertising and the claims of pet food manufacturers have contributed to the misinformation surrounding what is best for our pets.

Commercial dried and tinned pet food is convenient and claims to be 'better' than any other form of food. In addition, our pets learn to like the food that we eat and who can resist those soulful eyes when a packet of chips or a cookie is around!

The result is that pets in today's world suffer from the same digestive complaints and disorders as their humans. It can be very distressing to watch your pet suffer from the pain and discomfort associated with chronic and acute digestive disorders, which are often very resistant to treatment.

How can natural remedies help?

There are many synthetic over the counter and prescription medicines to treat digestive complaints and disorders. These include anti-inflammatories, corticosteroids, drugs that suppress the immune system, antibiotics and other medication for symptomatic relief.

While these synthetic medications may make a big difference to quality of life for animals suffering from digestive disorders and dysfunction, many also come with side effects like nausea, vomiting, heartburn, headaches, diarrhea and even greater risk of infection. Immunosuppressant drugs may also lower the body's natural resistance to illness.

Holistic practitioners recognize that the whole animal should be treated to maximize health and reduce imbalance in the system caused by a variety of environmental and dietary stresses.

A combination of natural medicine, healthy diet and regular exercise will help your pet to return to digestive health.

What are the ingredients of Digestive Support?

Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice): Powerful anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and anti-allergenic and excellent tonic for the intestines, bladder, kidney and entire digestive tract. This herb is also very effective in the treatment of peptic ulcers, reducing pain and helping to heal the stomach lining.

Ulmus fulva (slippery elm): The bark of this excellent digestive herb is rich in trace minerals, manganese, iodine, protein and soothing mucilage. It is a very highly respected herb in naturopathic circles and is regularly used by holistic veterinarians to treat a range of chronic and acute digestive disorders as well as to improve the health of the digestive tract.

Althaea officinalis (marshmallow), Rice Powder. An excellent and well known remedy for digestive disorders and very effective in soothing painful and inflamed mucus membranes of the digestive tract

What else can help?

According to many experts and followers of holistic health, the best diet for dogs and cats is a raw diet. Cooked food, pasteurized milk and other processed foodstuffs are thought to be damaging to the health of animals.

Studies, like the famous 10 year Pottenger Cat Study, have clearly demonstrated that raw meat (in the case of cats) and a combination of raw meat and raw vegetables (for dogs) is the only diet that will keep animals healthy and disease free generation after generation.

Everything in the anatomy of dogs and cats points to a raw meat-based diet as being what they were designed for. They have sharp teeth, highly concentrated digestive secretions to digest raw meat and short intestines.

Do not change diet suddenly, but slowly introduce fresh, raw and unprocessed food into your pet's daily diet, while reducing commercial foods and foods with little nutritious value.
Keep diet varied and interesting, but watch out for foods that your pet may be allergic to.
Regular exercise helps to build up a healthy appetite and gets all organs in the body functioning well. It also helps to relieve stress and contributes to a healthy happy pet!
Animals need time outdoors where they can naturally seek out herbs that will help them maintain the health of their digestive system. All carnivorous animals, including dogs and cats, will naturally induce vomiting from time to time as a cleansing process to get rid of excess bile, mucus and other impurities and do this by eating plants which will induce purging. This is healthy and animals should not be reprimanded for it!
Add green sprouts to your pet's food every day. This is an easy way to improve digestion and supply much needed vitamins, amino acids and trace elements.
Consult a holistic veterinarian for advice about the health problems associated with routine vaccination and regular antibiotic use.
For animals that suffer from constipation, ensure adequate roughage in the diet and use PetAlive Natural Moves for dogs and cats.
PetAlive Furball Dr helps to prevent distressing furballs in cats that are prone to this problem.

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