The gastrointestinal and digestive system of cats is relatively fragile. During the feeding process, cats often experience gastrointestinal problems such as indigestion. Cats’ digestive tract health helps improve cats’ immunity. Adding a moderate amount of probiotics to their cat’s diet can help cats regulate their digestive system and maintain intestinal and physical health. In addition, appropriate supplements to cats with some probiotics are not only good for the cat's own health, appropriate feeding of probiotics can also prevent the recurrence of hemorrhagic enteritis in cats and play a role in preventing disease. In general, feeding cats with some probiotics is very beneficial to cats' health, and it can also make cat shovelers worry-free during the process of raising cats.
1. It is prohibited to feed antibiotics and probiotics at the same time
Tooster owners must be careful not to feed antibiotics and probiotics to their cats at the same time, because antibiotics will indiscriminately destroy the cat's healthy intestinal bacteria. When a cat has undergone surgery or is in the recovery period after antibiotic treatment, the shoveler can feed the cat some probiotics, but it should be used under the guidance of a veterinarian. Even if the veterinarian says that you can feed the cat probiotics during antibiotic treatment, it is generally recommended that the cat take the probiotics for 2 hours after taking the antibiotics. Pet probiotics can promote the cat's intestine to reproduce beneficial bacteria. After cats are treated with antibiotics, veterinarians generally recommend feeding cats probiotics for several weeks, because this can keep the beneficial bacteria in the cat's intestine active.
2. Be careful not to use water above 37℃ to brew probiotics. Be sure to control the water temperature. It is best not to brew probiotics with warm water exceeding 37℃. Generally speaking, when using water temperature above 40℃ to brew pet probiotics, the probiotics will change, weakening the efficacy of probiotics, especially some powdered probiotics.
3. Probiotics that cannot be fed to cats
Although cats may not necessarily produce adverse reactions after eating human-use probiotics, because the species of bacteria required by humans and cats are different, human-use probiotics may not produce the same reactions in cats. Therefore, it is not recommended to feed cats with probiotics. It does not mean that human probiotics will cause harm to cats, but will have no effect on cats. In addition, in order to improve palatability, human probiotics have even made many flavors. They may add some lactose and other sugar additives. If cats are accidentally fed these probiotics, it may cause harm to the cat. It is recommended that owners use pet probiotics for cats to feed their cats. Pet probiotics generally have a bacteria called Bacillus, which can inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria in the cat's intestines and promote the rapid reproduction of beneficial bacteria in the intestines. Probiotics that are truly useful to cats can improve intestinal problems, increase cats' appetite, and regulate gastrointestinal dysfunction and weakening problems. However, many probiotics on the market are inferior as good, which fail to regulate cats' stomach and intestines, and may even increase the intestinal burden on cats. Therefore, cat shovelers should pay attention to strictly selecting suitable probiotics for cats.
The above are some things that the editor introduces that need to be paid attention to when feeding probiotics to cats. Appropriate feeding of pet probiotics is very helpful for cats' intestinal health, but cat shovelers should pay attention to purchasing suitable pet probiotics for cats.