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Guides, nutrition notes and observations from practice, written from a veterinary point of view — to make daily care at home a little easier.
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Clinical NotesHow Does the Gut Microbiota Manage Immunity? Probiotic Colonisation in Small Animals
The microbiota does not boost immunity; it lays the ground for it by maintaining the barrier and training the mucosal immune tissue day after day. What probiotic colonisation actually means, why strain identity matters, and the physiology of the period after antibiotics.
30 September 2026·9 min readRead the article
Clinical NotesPost-Antibiotic Diarrhoea and Gut Flora Disruption: How Is the Epithelium Protected?
The physiology behind stools that soften during antibiotic treatment: loss of flora balance, falling short-chain fatty acid production, and why the intestinal epithelium is a heading of its own.
29 September 2026·8 min readRead the article
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