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Originally Posted by dwerten  yeah the white potato will do it for sure  dex kept getting hospitalized on white potato diets then i pilled dd with white potato and after metacam she started vomitting it up and demi vomits white potato too and she is healthy. The white potato is inflammatory unlike sweet potato so sounds like she has ibd in small intestines and that can trigger her pancreas like my dex Also ibd dogs cannot tolerate chicken as well - now dex can but our ims told me many cannot so now that you know steer clear of those two for sure |
Unortunately, I don't think it's that easy with Ellie.
Because she has pancreatitis, high bile acids, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth/IBD, and allergies, we are extremely limited.
Red meat, pork, and exotics aren't good for her liver and can trigger pancreatitis. Chicken obviously doesn't settle and we aren't sure if she is allergic to turkey or not. So our choice here is fish.
Grains aren't the best for allergies, and if she can't have white potato, then are only choice here is sweet potato (or a grain and hope it doesn't make her too itchy).
She does fine with most vegetables, but she is usually underweight, so these don't help really do a ton for that...
The fat % in her diet is now going to have to be lowered which means she will have to eat even more of the main ingredients everyday and she already gets bloated on the amount she is on now.
She does okay with fish, sweet potato, and vegetables, but it is pretty low calorie and if she starts not doing well on it, I have no idea what we are going to do.
She does not do well on rx diets at all, to the point where they are out of the question for now.
Oh and I am just hoping the food allergies don't start to really flare up now. She was on Temaril-P and I can't restart it for at least a week, and even then, it may not be a good idea because of her pancreas.