I am a recent survivor of C Diff
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C diff is a type of Gastrointestinal Infections super bug, that is killing people in hospitals & communities across Canada and the US). Colitis can be a result of C Diff. I was on antibiotics (metronidazole) aka Flagyl and Vanco (vancomycin) for over 4-months. I was unable to eat for over 12 weeks and then was only able to gradually start to eat very selective foods.
One very important thing to know is when anyone (human or canine) is taking antibiotics that the antibiotics kill bacteria. Good bacteria and bad bacteria.
In our gastrointestinal tracts are both good and bad bacteria (which is referred to as good and bad flora)
When I first became ill, it was due to the fact the antibiotics stripped all the good bacteria from my gastrointestinal tract, allowing the bad bacteria to flourish and take over my system.
Upon advice from my doctor and I had a friend contacted a nature-pathic who sent instructions for me to massively take probiotics. Probiotics are loaded with LIVE GOOD bacteria that will FLUSH the bad flora bacteria from the digestive track. I was told you cannot over-dose on GOOD (flora) Live bacteria but you can die from over-load of bad flora bacteria.
As Colitis is similar to C diff (same type symptoms) - I'd recommend going to your health food store and purchasing Bio-K+ which contains over 50 million live bacteria in each 98 gram bottle.
It is a Probiotics that does need to be kept in the fridge. (It's fermented milk) ORyou could purchase Ultra MAX 36 Billion Plus powder which also has to be kept in the fridge. Giving your dog a bottle of Bio-K daily or a 1- tsp of the powder a day will help restore the GOOD flora in your dogs intestines, with will help in recovering from the Colitis.
These two products that I took are easily digested and I believe as it was safe for me AND these two products saved my life - I'd recommend this for any dog as with my research into the disease I also found that canines are also susceptible to C Diff or Colitis.
Our digestion tracks work the same, and antibiotics do kill the good flora which allows the bad flora to overtake the body. Which can result in other organ failure; (in humans) if the diarrhea is not controlled.
I was lucky to have recovered from my severe symptoms and my doctor does believe it was only from the massive amounts of probiotics I took daily.
Since it worked for me – I wouldn’t hesitate to offer natural probiotics to my 4-legged friends! If you do question whether to believe this – please do some research for yourself. I truly owe my life to probiotics.