Candida in dogs

Candida symptoms are often misdiagnosed as allergies, manifesting as rashes or skin outbreaks on the feet, face, underarms, underbelly, or genital areas. Recurring hot spots or infections of the ears, eyes, bladder, or urinary tract can be caused by candida overgrowth.

Treatment with antibiotics, steroids, and other conventional drugs may bring temporary relief, but the patient soon returns with another flare-up, and symptoms progress until the veterinarian suggests allergy testing.

In conventional medicine, antifungal medications clear up chronic yeast infections, fungal infections, and related symptoms. But many antifungal drugs have potentially serious side effects and they produce only temporary results. As soon as the prescription ends, surviving candida cells multiply, recolonize, and trigger a return of symptoms.

Alternative therapies, such as medicinal herbs and diet, have fewer side effects and help correct the problem’s underlying causes. The best is to check what other additional issues your doggo might have. It can be hormonal.

Imbalance, parasites, vitamins and minerals deficiency or too much toxins in the body.

Wild wolves are unlikely to suffer from candida overgrowths because, wolves in the wild consume little or no sugars, grains, starches, fruits, or other carbohydrates and very little vegetable matter. Their diet consists almost entirely of the meat, organs, blood, skin, and bones of prey animals.

Switching a candida-infected dog from a kibble to a starch-free, raw diet is an easy way to reduce a dog’s candida. 

One effective anti-candida ingredient that can be added to a dog’s food, is coconut oil. The oil kills candida and other damaging organisms without harming friendly bacteria. 

Another one is MSM powder fixes leaky gut syndrome and related disorders.

Very beneficial is Dog bone broth- which is a golden liquid – boosts immune and has natural probiotics from apple cider vinegar.

We can not forget about coconut yoghurt which contains Acidophilus probiotic.