Nutrient Buffer® H/G is a 100% natural nutritional equine supplement that contains NO DRUGS. It's a blend of nutritional buffers, a full spectrum of micro-encapsulated probiotics, and USP Grade vitamins and minerals, including organic forms of minerals designed to address hind gut ulcers and help manage EPM as well as other neurological syndromes. Nutrient Buffer® H/G is an essential part of an equine dietary program intended to re-balance and restore hind gut integrity after environmental exposure(s) to toxins such as smoke, chemicals, poor feed and water quality or trauma.
Horses with a history of upper gastric (stomach) ulcers have a much higher chance of developing an intestinal ulcer soon after. Excess acid travels from the stomach down into the gut and can degrade the protective mucous membrane which lines the intestinal tract. Without that protection, the acidity of fecal matter constantly rubbing directly on the flesh of the intestinal walls can cause hind gut ulcers, Leaky Gut Syndrome, serious nutritional deficiencies and can increase susceptibility to opportunistic infections that cause neurological hind end weakness - such as EPM.
If hind gut health is neglected, the trillions of protozoa and other parasites from the gut can slip through the intestinal walls into the body cavity and blood stream of the horse - where they can cause neurological syndromes and other chronic opportunistic infections which can bog the immune system down dramatically.
If your horse has a weak hind end which is unrelated to physical injury, and if the horse has a long history of stomach ulcers, then there is a chance that one or more, opportunistic infections has caused the problem. Nutrient Buffer® H/G is designed to do for the hind gut what the original Nutrient Buffer® liquid does for the stomach. The two products combined are a complete buffering and probiotics restoration system for the equine digestive tract.
We approach healing hind gut ulcers by addressing the underlaying cause of the problem. Neutralizing excess acidity is the first step to helping the hind gut heal, so that the cells lining the hind gut can begin absorbing nutrition again, and additional probiotics are also need to release optimal nutrients from fecal matter.
If your horse has a weak hind end that's unrelated to physical injury, and if the horse has a long history of stomach ulcers, then there is a chance that opportunistic infection has caused the problem. Nutrient Buffer® H/G is designed to do for the hind gut what the original Nutrient Buffer® liquid does for the stomach. The two products combined are a complete buffering system for the equine digestive tract.
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