A teaspoon of natural raw honey every day can actually prevent allergies in dogs and boost their immunity to fight illness and disease.
If your dog has bouts of indigestion, diarrhea or constipation the health benefits of raw honey will certainly come in handy.
Honey helps to prevent bad bacteria in your dog’s digestive tract.
Raw honey is one of the best home remedies to combat kennel cough or any other kind of upper respiratory tract infection. It relieves the throat and soothes cough. It also works to alleviate the nasal discharge that accompanies kennel cough.
You may find that introducing honey into your dog’s diet not only helps prevent ear infections, but can also help get rid of a particularly nasty one.
The antioxidants in honey prevent and delay cell damage, giving dogs a chance to live a long and healthy life.
A little lick of raw honey may boost your old dog’s energy level.
Honey’s moisturization qualities improves your dog’s skin and fur.
Glucose oxidase, an enzyme in honey, produces hydrogen peroxide, which helps kill harmful bacteria. In addition, there are yet-unidentified substances which bees collect from flowers that give their honey antibacterial properties.
Clinical trials of burn and injury patients show that the application of honey as a wound dressing rapidly clears infection, inflammation, swelling, pain, and odor while speeding the sloughing off of necrotic tissue (dead skin) and the growth of new skin cells. It remains moist, seals wounds – including skin grafts – and protects them from exposure to air, absorbs pus, reduces scarring, and prevents wounds from sticking to bandages.
Unlike other topical antiseptics, honey prevents microbial growth without causing tissue damage.