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- Food as the basis of good health
- daily exercise
- Care with pharmacological treatments
- Strengthen your dog's defenses with natural methods
Does your dog have recurrent infections? In these cases it is always essential to go to the veterinarian, but it is important that treatment go beyond the correction of symptoms and focus on the primary cause, which in these cases is usually a deficient response of the immune system.
Keeping our pet's immune system in optimal condition is critical for our friend to enjoy a good quality of life, so as owners this should be a priority for us.
In this article by PeritoAnimal we give you the best advice for strengthening the immune system in dogs.
Food as the basis of good health
Food is a determining factor for health of the puppy and for a proper functioning of the immune system, if the defense cells or white blood cells do not have the nutrients they need, they will not be able to perform their function effectively.
What decreases the immune response is not just a nutritional deficit but also the intake of toxic or poor quality substances, something that usually happens when we give our dog a low quality commercial food.
If you want to feed your dog's defenses, you should choose one of the following options:
- high-end ration
- ecological food
- Home cooking with nutritional supervision
- BARF Diet (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food)
daily exercise
A dog needs to exercise daily (within its possibilities and limitations) for several reasons, one of the most important being stress management, since a dog that doesn't exercise is a dog that can get stressed very easily.
Stress in dogs is a condition that directly reduces the activity of the immune system. Why? The dog's organism releases several hormones, which occupy the receptors of white blood cells and prevent them from recognizing and facing a pathogen. Daily walks and exercise should be one of the main care that you should give your dog.
Care with pharmacological treatments
Natural therapies should always complement each other as the first treatment option, although we recognize that the most suitable professional for this is the holistic veterinarian.
Drugs generally reduce the body's own curative resources and act as liver toxicants, furthermore, when it comes to corticoid drugs, they directly cause an important drop in the immune system's response.
When pharmacological treatment is carried out with antibiotics, the main defense structures affected are the beneficial bacteria that are part of the intestinal flora. To avoid this damage, in parallel with taking antibiotics, probiotics should be administered to dogs.
Strengthen your dog's defenses with natural methods
In addition to taking into account the advice we have shown you above, if your puppy has a deficient immune system, this disorder can be treated using several alternative therapies like the following:
- Homeopathy
- Bach flowers
- Reiki
- Acupuncture
The same should not be applied without proper professional supervision., but when used they will effectively help your pet, increasing its defenses and preventing future diseases.
This article is for information purposes only, at PeritoAnimal.com.br we are not able to prescribe veterinary treatments or perform any type of diagnosis. We suggest that you take your pet to the veterinarian in case it has any type of condition or discomfort.