I like your subject header better than mine.
There seems to be a lot of disagreement about human digestion. From
reading several differing opinions, I take the side that human digestion
is acid dependent in the main. Bacteria in the stomach are likely to be
pathogenic only, stomach digestion has nothing to do with bacteria. It
seems likely that the beneficial gut bacteria we are concerned with in
humans are much lower down in the intestines, therefore much less
subject to CS unless there is diarrhea. (so I have read).
My concern is that people with herbivore pets, might carry this
thinking over to pets like rabbits, in which digestion IS bacteria
dependent, and in those species CS could be very harmful if given in
sufficient amounts, as are other oral antibiotics. And to repeat, death
from dysbiosis can occur extremely quickly in these small animals. There
is no time to "fix" it with probiotics, which in any case, for rabbits
and other herbivore species human type probiotics are NOT normal GI
inhabitants of these animals. They can "fill in" so to speak, preventing
overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria until the normal gut flora
re-populate, but if that doesn't happen (too many have been killed off),
the animal will surely die, and I have read nothing to suggest that
probiotic bacteria spp, can replace the normal gut bacteria longterm. At
least one supplement sold for animals (namely Animal Essentials)
contains B. coagulans, which produced fatal enterotoxemia in mice.
I am harping on this because I want to be sure people understand that
it is not necessarily safe to generalize from humans to other species.
With some herbivore species, particularly pet rabbits, such generalizing
from one species to another could be fatal. Neither is it safe to
generalize from dog and cat to rabbit.
paula
M. G. Devour wrote:
Hi gang,
This has been a frequent topic of discussion in the past. It's good to
bring it up again for the newer members.
I believe claims that CS "doesn't kill the good bacteria" are mostly
marketing hype. In effect, it is sort-of true, but as the information
is usually presented it is clearly wrong.
CS will kill almost any bacteria we know of, with the exception of some
strange bugs from some silver-rich soil deposits that have adapted
somehow. None of those effect us. CS will not, however, distinguish
"good" bacteria from "bad." It *will* kill the gut flora if it can get
there.
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