How Can Stress Affect Your Pets’ Intestinal Flora?

Animals are subject to varying states of stress throughout their lives. Certain stress factors are already known

When an animal is in a stressful situation, the digestive system’s blood flow is perturbed. This has a direct effect on its intestinal flora, because the latter are relatively sensitive to environment. A reduction of the intestinal flora opens the way to invasion by pathogenic flora, and reduces the ability of the system to assimilate the nutrients contained in food. This explains why diarrhea is often associated with a period of stress.

Here is a brief list:

Travelling
Change of Diet
Change of Environment
Disease
Reproductive Period
Hostile Attack
Weaning
Molting

The animal is more vulnerable to disease and dehydration. This is why checking your animals’ stools is important as part of the daily care routine. Stools provide the first indicator of whether your pet is in a state of good health or one of stress.

In most cases, the animal’s metabolism operates in such a way that it can handle the impact of stress; but let us suppose that the animal does not have the strength to respond, or is weakened (young, old, already sick, etc.). Also, there could be other factors which could worsen the situation such as a new environment, sudden temperature change, consumption of contaminated water, or a change of owner.

How can you ensure that you provide your much-loved pet every opportunity to resist these potential problems? How do you stimulate their immune system?

The answer is to use PROBIAVI probiotics !