Overall, a diet that is rich in probiotics will help your pet to achieve digestive balance and promote a healthy gut. If your pet doesn’t already have a diet with added probiotics and they start to suffer from diarrhea, a probiotic supplement can help to treat the diarrhea.

All dogs can benefit from probiotics, which aid digestion and modulate the immune system. Probiotics produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which inhibit the growth and activity of harmful bacteria, such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Clostridium perfringens, as well as providing other benefits to the intestines. Studies have documented the effectiveness of certain strains in treating diarrhoea, irritable bowel, and intestinal inflammation. Probiotics may help prevent urinary tract infections, and can even reduce allergic reactions by decreasing intestinal permeability and controlling inflammation.

When your pet is sick or feeling stressed (for example, when she’s boarded at a kennel, or is moved to a new home), the balance between healthy and illness-causing microbes in her gut can become disrupted. This can lead to issues like diarrhea, gas, cramping and bad breath. Probiotics have been shown to reduce the duration of diarrhea in dogs from seven to four days.