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Originally Posted by bonitalou  Ok, so say she has a food allergy.......she would NOT be allergic to this food? Provided that she DOES have KIDNEY issues as they say......the protein is high on these. So then would I lean more towards PREFERENCE which has 12%?
Are you by chance the one that told me about organic pumpkin? I don't remember who told me. I did find a store in town that carires it. I don't remember how much I'm supposed to give her.
What I really would like to do is just go sit down and cry!  I just want her to get better. |
you are going to have to be patient as i had to bc if it is colitis causing the diarhea as the diarhea is not caused by kidney issues so that is a whole separate issue going on then colitis takes a while to heal up as it took 30-60 days for my dee dee to clear up completely -- If she were mine this is what i would do as it will not hurt the kidneys and i do this anyway lol -- get organic pumpkin from whole foods and dds plus probiotics as non-dairy and some dogs are lactose intolerant from vitamin shoppe give 2 capsules in am mixed in 1/4 tsp of pumpkin 30 min before breakfast and if you can start tonight before dinner -- I feed twice a day. If too much pumpkin you will cause diarhea as pumpkin is a natural fiber too much then diarhea and a little will firm it up so it helps for diarhea and constipation. I would stick to food vet has recommended then see how it goes for 3 days. When do you go back for blood work? Also give spring water and keep in fridge so it is fresh and cold and change 3-4 times a day if you can as my dogs will only drink it if it is fresh not sitting all day and this will encourage your dog to drink more water so the bun will correct itself. You want to encourage water drinking with kidney if it is an issue. When you go back to the vet do the bile acid testing as you need this test at this point.
Then if probiotics and pumpkin do not work THEN ask the vet for tylan powder which is a very low dose the smallest dose of antibiotic you can get and give daily to calm the intestines as i was given that by internal medicine specialist for dd for colitis if the probiotics did not work as i ALWAYS try natural first. Tylan powder is very bitter so you have to mix with something or get capsules to put it in as dog will not eat food if you put in food and then you may have a prob if they have to eat that food so you have to be careful. A stronger dose of antibiotics is metronidazole and it has to be compounded for toy breeds but that is the next step for diarrhea --
You have three issues here - vomitting, diarrhea and crystals in urine so you have a few things to address and vomitting and diarhea can be alot of things so we are trying to help you rule some things out so you rule out --Giardia, Coccidia, Pancreatitis, Liver Disease, ibd and colitis see how there is alot of things -- Giardia and Coccidia are on fecals. Pancreatitis is a spec cpli, liver is bile acids, -ibd and colitis are food elimination which take longer to diagnose. Urine and culture and bun and creatinine test kidneys. I do not believe kidney issue would make your dog have diarrhea but I may be wrong as i have never had one of mine have crystals in urine but have read alot as on 64 dog groups.