Pasta salad is a fresh accompaniment to our meals, but it is not so beneficial for our dogs, discover three reasons why it is best to avoid giving pasta salad to our pets.
Risks
Pancreatitis or enteritis
Condiments such as garlic, onion, and sauces like mustard or mayonnaise that we can use as salad dressings are ingredients that dogs cannot digest so easily.
Therefore, the digestive system responsible for absorbing and digesting fatty foods, such as the pancreas and intestine, can become inflamed more easily, causing vomiting, loss of appetite, and decay.
Increases the deterioration of neurological tissue.
Pasta contains gluten and just as the relationship between gluten consumption and neurological inflammation has been demonstrated in humans, diseases such as “Paroxysmal gluten-sensitive dyskinesia (PGSD) in border terriers” have also been described in dogs.
This is a disease that consists of episodes of involuntary jerky movements, signs of gastrointestinal disease such as vomiting or diarrhea, and dermatological hypersensitivity and resolves when gluten is eliminated from the diet of our animals.
It has been described mainly borders terriers, but it can happen in other breeds.
Overweight
Remember that our animals do not feed on flour, so excessive consumption will only cause weight gain.
In general, pasta is not a nutritious food for our dogs, in salad, it can be harmful because of the combination of spices and sauce, and please avoid it at all costs if your dog has neurological, digestive, or dermatological diseases.
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