Hi i'm Dan Scott, Canine nutrition and home remedy specialist and in this video
i'll talk about the 15 reasons vet prescribed antibiotics are dangerous for
your dog, the alternative and effective natural
solution plus the one remedy you need to help boost your dog's gut flora levels
if they've had antibiotics recently.
Many pet parents understand that antibiotics are indiscriminate killers
of both harmful and friendly bacteria in your dog's digestive tract.
Your dog's beneficial bacteria are key to their system working properly
and protecting your dog from viruses, bacterial and fungal infections
and parasites too. Just about every time you visit the vet with a health concern,
you come home with antibiotics. Many times the vet isn't really sure what the
problem is, so they prescribe antibiotics as some
sort of potluck precaution. Antibiotics are overused and according
to research by probably a hundred percent
and if research tells us half of all antibiotic use is either
unnecessary or inappropriate, you can be sure that that's a big problem
and not just because it's such a waste of money but because your dog suffers.
Back in 1942 when Dr Alexander Fleming discovered antibiotic penicillin, he
could not foresee the problems that would come with it. Three years
later he began to notice the blanket prescription of the drug
would quickly lead to resistant bacteria and within just
three years of this new wonder drugs introduction, as many as 15 percent of
the bacterial strains isolated in patients
had become resistant. So the race was on to develop
new antibiotics to keep up with the ever increasing resistance strains
and over the next three decades, along came amoxicillin
tetracyrecline and streptomycin. By 1975 there were over 100 human antibiotics on
the pharmacy counter. Drug resistance starts when drugs kill
susceptible infections, leaving hardier resilient strains behind
and today we simply have a chemical race going on between science with drug
development and bugs with new forms of resistance
like mrsa. And right now you can be pretty sure
that antibiotics are simply not effective,
they're just not keeping up with the bugs and the more antibiotics are
overused the less effective they become. Unfortunately it gets worse. Your dog's
gut is the key to a life of well-being or a life of misery and although
antibiotics kill bacteria, they're indiscriminate killers.
Good bacteria bad bacteria all bacteria that aren't resistant
to the antibiotic will be killed. And because of this,
your dog's system is being chemically intoxicated.
As much as 80 to 90 percent of your dog's immune system,
its defense system resides in its gut which is the lower end of a 12-foot long
digestive tract that starts at the stomach and ends at
the anus. In the lower intestinal tract to house
billions of precious bacteria that do the following:
Produce vitamins, assist in hormone production,
manufacture nutrients vital to cellular health,
outcompete harmful bacteria that cause yeast overgrowth.
Antibiotics will kill these friendly bacteria and lead to the growth of yeast
in the body, most frequently the candida species. In
the time its taken for the short-term benefits of
antibiotics, your dog's immune system has taken a massive hit
to its good bacteria population. The numbers drop dramatically
and your dog is now left ever more susceptible to other diseases while at
the same time host to chronic skin, bowel and urinary
tract infections from yeast overgrowth. Because the good bacteria in your dog's
gut that help produce vitamins and create nutrients vital to cellular
health has been destroyed, your dog's gut is now depleted of
vitamins such as b1 b2 b6 c e and k and this can lead to health
problems such as reduced immunity, diabetes, obesity
diarrhea, allergies, asthma, anemia, nerve damage, oxidative stress,
behavioral concerns, inflammatory bowel disease or ibd,
reduced wound healing, urinary tract infections,
ear infections, outbreaks of skin problems such as demodectic mange.
So what can you do to home remedy the situation?
In today's world of processed pet foods fortified with sub-optimal synthetic
vitamins and minerals, it's essential to keep vitamin mineral
supplies unbroken because they're not likely to be
replaced by cheap kibbles. If your dogs had antibiotics recently
it's best to follow with a course of probiotics to help
restore the colony of beneficial bacteria and get your dog's body back
into balance. The looming problem with this recovery
method is that recent research is finding that once antibiotics have
done their work killing off your dog's floral levels and
leaving them susceptible to infection, in many instances the flora levels simply
cannot return to normal levels again. The more rounds of antibiotics your dogs
had, the less likely they are to recover their gut health
and so become exposed to greater health risks going forward.
This is where the natural alternative makes the difference. Oregano oil and
colloidal silver are two such natural antibiotics that
have been shown repeatedly to be effective. They both have various
therapeutic effects, reducing allergenic responses and
stimulate the immune response to stop infection.
While antibiotics cannot always be avoided and can save lives,
given recent research, try your best to avoid them or as a last chance option.
Better still, if you can feed your dog a more natural diet such as my Healthier
Kibble Diet or home-cooked food diet or raw food
diet the need for antibiotics is greatly reduced.
For more on how you can feed your dog an improved kibble diet to reduce
day-to-day chronic health problems and the need for antibiotics, click the
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