How to Help Your Dog Or Cat
INTESTINAL PROBLEMS
How to help your dog or cat
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Disorders of the gastrointestinal tract are quite common in dogs and cats. Various underlying causes can upset your pet’s gastrointestinal tract. These vary from ingestion of spoiled food or other substances, to parasites, bacterial or viral infections, or toxic substances. Other diseases such as the inflammation of the pancreas, chronic hepatic disease, or inflammation of the intestinal wall can also lead to vomiting and diarrhoea.
Furthermore, the inflammation makes it difficult for your dog or cat to digest food. Therefore, the food is not absorbed by the body, and your dog or cat may lose weight and become dehydrated.
The most frequent symptoms:
- Decreased appetite
- Weight loss
- Vomiting
- Diarrhoea
How nutrition can help:
A correct diet can play a key role in helping your cat’s or dogs intestinal system return to normal. Eukanuba Veterinary Diet Intestinal Formula is highly digestible to make it easy for your cat’s or dog’s body to digest and absorb the essential nutrients.
The key nutritional features of
Eukanuba Veterinary Diets Intestinal Formula:
Three special fibre sources included in these diets help fight the bad bacteria in the intestinal tract and help restore a healthy intestinal environment
- Highly digestible ingredients ensure that all nutrients are absorbed by the body; even in these circumstances when the intestinal environment is upset and nutrient absorption is impaired.
- Lowered fat levels (for dogs) to reduce the risk of diarrhoea
- An adjusted Omega-6 to Omega-3 fatty acid ratio reduces inflammation of the intestine.
How you can help:
Your Veterinarian has given you specific medical and nutritional guidelines. Be sure to follow all of these carefully. This usually means to also avoid all treats or snacks.
If your pet doesn’t eat, continues to lose weight, or isn’t responding exactly as you and your veterinarian expect, be sure to contact your veterinarian immediately.
In some instances, your veterinarian may decide that it is necessary to take further diagnostic steps to refine the diagnosis and treatment.
When the symptoms have gone:
Depending on the severity and length of the disease, your veterinarian can advise you about the duration of needed nutritional support.
Sometimes, lifelong support with Eukanuba Veterinary Diets is needed, but most dogs and cats can be smoothly transitioned to another Eukanuba or Iams product when the symptoms have been relieved.
The Eukanuba or Iams line of products provide complete and balanced nutrition for dogs and cats and is available for all life stages and lifestyles. Developed on the basis of extensive scientific research and more than 50 years of experience in making premium quality pet nutrition, Iams Company products combine the latest advances in nutritional science with outstanding palatability – for optimum results.
Intestinal Formula
Nutritional Features and Benefits:
- Special fibres FOS provide nutrition to
- Fructooligo-saccharides (FOS)the beneficial bacteria
in the bowel at the expense of bad bacteria
- Mannanoligo-saccharides (MOS)MOS attach to the bad
bacteria and so remove them in the faeces.
- Beet pulp Beet pulp nourishes the
Large bowel cells
- Lowered fat contentTo reduce the risk of
(for dogs)diarrhoea
- Highly digestible ingredientsProvides the body with
easy-to absorb nutrition to help in the recovery process
- A balance of Omega-6 and Reduces the
Omega-3 fatty acids of 5 -10:1inflammation of the
Intestinal tract
Availability:
Dry Cans
- Intestinal Formula for Dogs 1kg 400 g
10kg
- Intestinal Formula for Puppies 800g
- Intestinal Formula for Cats400g 170 g
If you have questions about any of the Eukanuba Veterinary Diets, please talk to your Veterinarian or contact:-
Iams SA on: 0126612200 or tollfree: 080 000 4267