Pet Probiotics

My poor old dog has Lyme :( Can I give him probiotics after the antibiotics, or must they be vet probiotics? I asked the vet and she said he didn't need any....I don't agree, obviously. Have any of you given a pet probiotics?


Hi Sheryl, so sorry to hear your dog has Lyme. Yes, absolutely, you can give probiotics to dogs. I've been doing this for years with my two dogs, and their digestion is perfect. I use Natren's MegaDophilus, and add 1/4 tsp to each meal. I usually get it in powdered form, but they didn't have it last time so I got the capsules, & just open it & sprinkle it over their food.

Hope this helps.

I also have noticed that they add probiotics to some of the high quality dog foods.


Thanks Madge. You should have seen us getting a urine sample from him this morning,lol!


i think natren sells a probiotic for dogs, need to check. also i think the measure of any civilised society is how well it treats its most vulnerable, including its animals. did anyone read this lately? ---> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1844070,00.html well meant, if a little over the top 'in Turin, dog owners can be fined up to 500 euros (�338/$650) if they do not walk their dogs at least three times a day.' !! in england most dogs to not leave the house once a month (if that). as im not working at the moment i try to take my dog to the shop or down to the fields 3-4 times a week, its not fair to keep an animal locked up to long.i also think that the only way pets as a whole will become more healthy is when the humans become more healthy and eat better diets, because alot of pets are fed leftovers, crisps and garbage that the humans leave, so when our diet is improved, so will theirs.


Pets are also having health problems due to over vaccination


Are they vaxing dogs for Lyme? Suddenly I think I remember hearing something about that..


Not sure, but I recall they are getting cancer due to over vaccination.

Yeah, I'm anti vax in general, people or animals, so mine probably didn't get it if it wasn't mandatory like rabies etc..


Thanks I'll look in to Natren.

Aren't dogs the best? :) Too bad I bring mine into the woods so much tho, now he has Lyme :(


Sheryl, I don't know why not. I've searched candida before and ended up on veterinary websites and they talk about probiotics for dogs on there I think.


My dog has yogurt every day. My other dog died just recently...he was 16 yrs old and also enjoyed my yogurt...he had prostate cancer for several years and the vet was amazed I kept him healthyfor so long without any invasive procedures.


thats good to know about the yogurt. I'm sorry to hear your dog died...That must have been so hard. Mine is almost 12.


I've heard of folks making yogurt for thier dogs. I make yogurt out of probiotics such as natren, ethical nutrients, culturelle, biok plus, etc. I have always felt that if I had a dog I would feed them this. I would also try to feed them homemade sauerkraut.

How do you know your dog has lyme?

FYI, my wife works with a woman whose daughter and her daughter's friend have both tested positive for lyme. Both of these young women are seeing Dr. Stricker, a pretty famous lyme md in San Francisco. As it turns out, both of these women work in a vet clinic, and treated a dog with some sort of tick fever immediately before the daughter's friend came down with symptoms. Apparently, according to the mother, Stricker claims to believe that BOTH women contracted lyme AND babesia from exposure to this dog.... this women told me that Stricker believes that neither of these young women had to be exposed to the ticks themselves.


I do feed him yogurt, but I think he might need something stronger. The vet assured me he couldn't pass it to me without the tick getting on me. He has an ear infection, and they did a routine blood test while I had him there, and called today to say it was positive for Lyme. I tested negative a couple of months ago myself.


Sheryl

You may not have lyme ut elieve me the test is NOT conclsuive evidence of that. I have tested negative for a long time and tested postive after treatment.

Sheryl,

I've given you this information before, but perhaps other folks will benefit from it.

>> I tested negative a couple of months ago myself.

Lyme is a clinical diagnosis. You simply CANNOT rely on lab testing to rule out lyme. I was tested in 2000 for lyme/babesia/rickettsia using PCR, which was supposed to be state of the art at the time, but my current llmd feels this test has less than a 10% chance of detecting a positive result. He relates this test to looking for a needle in a haystack.

He did clinically diagnosis me with both babesia and borrelia prior to testing using Igenex test, and my babesia did come back positive after treating for 6 weeks or so. Apparently after treating for a while the immuen system rebounds and at that time folks are more likely to test positive for both lyme and babesia.

Below is a quote from the NIH website...
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Until better tests are available, the diagnosis of Lyme disease must be based on characteristic clinical findings in which the results of laboratory tests play a supportive role.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ruezIFOFJkoJ:www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/lyme/diagnosis.htm+cdc+lyme+clinical+diagnosis&hl=en