Dietary supplementation of new-born foals with free nucleotides positively affects neonatal diarrhoea management.

ABSTRACT: Foals commonly experience diarrhoea in the first weeks of life. Although this condition is rarely life-threatening, it can have significant health consequences. This study investigated whether new-born foals can benefit from a dietary supplement of nucleotides, as already demonstrated in other species. Dietary nucleotides have positive effects on rapidly proliferating tissues and are considered "semi-essential nutrients" since cells have only a limited capacity to synthesize these compounds. The aim of this study was to investigate whether providing foals with a dietary nucleotide supplementation, in the form of an oral paste, was able to affect diarrhoea incidence, systemic immunity, intestinal microbiota and volatile fatty acid production. Thirty new-born standardbred foals, from 3 diffe

SUBMITTER: Penazzi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11871744 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature