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Originally Posted by dwerten  yes internal medicine specialist, vet and on all nutritionist groups i have read this as well. My vet's dog cannot tolerate potato is how he knew. As soon as dex was off white potato diets he stopped vomitting. He was on ivd white fish and potato when he got pancreatitis so we analyzed it to death for a year and we now know he has ibd in small intestines as he only vomits no diarhea so small intestine gets inflamed and boom vomitting begins with undigested food. Ibd is a food intolerance not allergic reaction. The body cannot tolerate it and then they start vomitting it up and if it gets bad enough in small intestine. Jean dodds who we see has it in her diet but sweet potatoes are easier to digest - however my dd cannot eat sweet potato -go figure so in my 3 i have seen the white potato reaction and it happens immediately after eating it- i use organic steamed potato too - also white potato is very high in sugar conversion in body where as sweet potato is not so people with diabetes can eat sweet potato but not white potato and pancreas controls the insulin in the body so may be connected there
now what you are describing with the yellowy poop is colitis and colitis is tied to large intestines as red blood is fresh in poop and that is tied to too much fiber in diet so white potato may be ok in that situation but definitely not ok with a dog that vomits with ibd as white potato will inflame that small intestine too much and not let the food get to large intestines thus the vomitting. This is why when a dog gets pancreatitis and it has only vomitted and not diarhea i feel it is tied to ibd in small intestines like my dex and also izzy who is on this group as well. |
No, Marcel didn't have any yellowy poop at all, it was more like what I described above.
This is all interesting bc so many of the specialists I've known recommend potatoes and I've not heard of issues. I think about 20 folks here use Susan Davis, and almost all of those dogs are on potatoes (some on sweet potatoes). I actually prefer white potato over white rice for sick dogs too, they seem to snap right back and like the potato better than the rice (taste, I mean).
I still don't understand
how potato, or a "carb/glucose" (when it comes down to it) would inflame the intestine. I could maybe understand an interaction during pancreatitis if the pancreas was spilling amylase, but otherwise the physiology doesn't make sense to me yet. I'll have to look into this more.