From Lecture week 6

Question 1

What are some benefits of medium chain Triglyceride (MCT) oil?

Answer 1

• easily digestible than other lipids
• absorbed intact and taken directly to liver, not broken down in SI
• treats diarrhea, digestive conditions

Question 2

What is a parenteral additive for animals?

Answer 2

B- complex vitiamins

Question 3

What are some GI conditions?

Answer 3

Dental, small intestinal re-feeding, large bowel, inflammation, constipation, flatulence, fiber responsive

Question 4

What science diet is for periodontium?

Answer 4

t/d - for dental health

Question 5

What do you need to do for animals with acute diarrhea?

Answer 5

GI intervention - water/electrolyte repletion

• gastroenteritis refeeding - boiled hamburger /chicken and cooked rice
• small feedings
• prototype “bland diet”
• balanced fuel sources with high digestibility
  1: 2 or 1:1

Question 6

What does high digestibility mean?

Answer 6

most of protein taken into the body is used by body and less is excreted out of the body

Question 7

i/d low fat science diet is used for what?

Answer 7

re-feeding after recovery from pancreatitis or other situation of sensitivity to lipids

Question 8

What is a probiotic?

Answer 8

live/viable useful/friendly enteric microbes

Question 9

What is a prebiotic?

Answer 9

Oral administration of agents to promote culture of desirable bacterial flora of the GIT

Question 10

What is synbiotic Therapy?

Answer 10

using prebiotics and probiotics

Question 11

What is Fructo-Oligosaccharides (FOS)?

Answer 11

It is a prebiotic sourced from beet pulp - less soluble sugar than the extracted sucrose

• said to improve stool quality
• normalizing and supporting the gut

Question 12

What product is a probiotic and follows GI antibiotics?

Answer 12

fortiflora, probiotics, bactaquin

- a possible way to go for chronic diarrhea instead of more antibiotics