What to Feed a Dog With Diarrhea, And How to Cure It

In learning what to feed a dog with diarrhea, you may well be at the beginning of totally changing the health of your dog. Why? Because by finding out what the cause of the diarrhea is, and addressing that, everything is likely to improve.

Too often, treatment of ailments is by suppressing the symptoms, rather than in looking for the cause. It's easier to suppress. You don't have to think. And you do have to think and be open when looking for causes. It's like being a detective. A good one has no preconceived ideas. They simply look at the facts and deal with them dispassionately, one at a time. Diarrhea can come in two forms. The acute form is when the dog has ingested something harmful, such as with food poisoning, and the body reacts violently to expel it. It is of short duration and occurred the once.

The chronic form of diarrhea occurs frequently or may never completely go. The most common cause of this is the food you are feeding your dog. Commercial pet food is highly toxic and nutrient poor. That is the quality is so poor that your dog is unhealthy. Your dog's immune system just can't deal with any offender, any pathogen in an aggressive way so it has taken a hold.

Commercial pet food is highly toxic with chemicals that would never be allowed in human food. The only way your dog can keep getting rid of this toxic load is to purge them out - constant vomiting and/or diarrhea. The best food is the food you prepare. You know what goes into the food. You have control over the healthy ingredients. So by switching your dog's diet from a commercial brand to a quality homemade one, you are probably getting to the cause of the diarrhea.

You can also assist your dog in the purging of the toxins, by giving the homeopathic medicine Arsenicum album. This may increase the purging for a short time, but your dog will feel much happier. Wouldn't you after dumping a toxic load? Learning what to feed a dog with diarrhea has the potential of curing the diarrhea, and improving your dog's overall health.