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Originally Posted by bonitalou  Thank you for the info. Autumn was 12 weeks old when she was fixed. The reason she was so young is because she was born with a hernia and they wanted to repair it. All her panels were negative at the time of her surgery and to my knowledge she didn't have any problems with the anesthesia.
She gets these phases where she gets the diarrhea and the vet's office just doesn't know if she has something else going on besides her kidney problem. I have her still on rice/hamb and now again her stool turned to liquid. I'm am SO frustrated! My poor baby.
Today I called the vet again and they said MAYBE she has a UI, so I've been trying to collect a sample and that's like pulling teeth. I prefer for her not to have a catheter placed for collection. I got the impression that a UI could elevate the BUN. Her Creatinine is normal........BUN is 38. Everything else on the panels are normal. Her temp is now 101.7 which I believe is normal. I don't like the fact that she is eating hamburger (protein) if her kidneys are indeed not the best. BUT with this diarreah I have no choice, but even now that isn't preventing it. So back to the vet on MOnday for more pills if she's not better.
The info you provided does indeed reflect the fact that infection could cause the kidney problem.
I'm very sorry to hear of your darling puppy, how old is she now.
Yes, very new on here and I've got a picture of Autumn out there somewhere, I have NO idea how to work this site too well. How did U get the pic next to your message?
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that bun is not that high and if creatinine is normal then i would not worry about it - ok now for the stomach upset - are you using white or brown rice? Many yorkies have ibd - inflammatory bowel disease and NSAIDs should NEVER BE USED IN AN IBD DOG. Nsaids inflame the intestinal tract making it worse and more diarhea. Tylan powder is a good anti-inflammatory and is used often in ibd toy breeds and much safer than nsaids. I think the nsaids made your dog worse. What dog food do you normally feed? Stay away from any chicken, brown rice, and white potato - any inflammatory foods - sounds like your dog has ibd in large intestines or colitis which is also inflammation of digestive tract but colitis is jelly yellow poop is this it? If not then ibd -- a good food for ibd is purina ha - it is a hydrolized soy diet as the protein is the culprit in inflammatory bowel disease and many allergy dogs cannot tolerate chicken or beef so the beef could be making your dog worse. Ibd is a food intolerance. So if this were my dog which btw i have an ibd dog but his is in small intestines so he vomits -- i would get purina ha dog food. I would get dds plus probiotics from vitamin shop which i use and get organic pumpkin from whole foods -- take a bit of pumpkin not alot like 1/4 tsp and mix with two dds capsules 30 min before food. Feed 3-4 meals a day as ibd dogs do better on smaller meals as easier to digest. If this does not work then i would use tylan powder as it is an anti-inflammatory antibiotics which can be used long term if need be but i prefer natural first