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Originally Posted by valerieam  A month ago Pippin had severe vomiting during the night, with flecks of red blood. I took him to the vet and he said either pancreatitis, intestinal infection or ate something poisonous. He put him on antibiotics, medication and did blood tests. He had me start feeding him Hills I/D food.
The blood tests showed the lipase levels at 4,300. He had no more vomiting. He had one black tarry stool, and has been fine since. After a month we did another lipase test. It came back 799. The vet said he would like it a little lower, but just keep him on the Hill I/D. I mentioned I'd read about the Hills Z/D being lower in fat, and he said the I/D was fine.
I need to purchase more food and I don't know which way to go. In the posts I've seen suggestions for:
Purina HA
Hills I/D, W/D, Z/D,
Wellness Core Reduced Fat
Royal Canin Low Fat LF20
My vet sells Hill so I think that is why he suggests that. If he wants his levels to go lower why didn't he think I should go with the lower fat (W/D or Z/D)?
Pippin is 2 1/2 years old and never had any stomach or bowel problems. I had been feeding him Neutro Natural Choice for sensitive stomachs. I chose that because he did have some itching. I need to call and ask the vet today did we find out that it is pancreatitis or could it have been a intestional infection.
Any suggestions? I'm almost out of the Hills I/D and I don't know if I should keep him on that or try something else. |
sounds like ibd to me not pancreatitis as dogs with ibd can have elevated lipase and amylase as well - how long after switching to this food did your dog start vomitting? also many have posted here that nutro is not a good food
they have had their share of problems. Dexter got pancreatitis at 2 years and 5 months 7/06 and he was born 1/25/04 so sounds to me that this is the problem as dex has ibd of small intestines which triggered his pancreas took us a year to find out and realize white potato was the culprit as he was on ivd white fish and white potato at the time of the attack which is a low fat diet
the black tarry stool is more of an ulcer situation as is vomitting blood that look like coffee grounds so if the I/D is working i would stick to it as my concern would be with ibd symtpoms and possible ulcer symptoms i would not mess with this at all and stick with what works until it does not work anymore which can happen with ibd dogs as it is a food intolerance disease so a dog that eats the same food for a long time can acquire an intolerance and i hope and pray it does not happen to dex but so far we are good. Dex has went into a vomitting attack 2 times from dh dropping ONE SMALL PEA on floor and one other time i pilled dd with yams and gave him a TINY piece both ended up being 8hrs of vomitting and i was a nervous wreck so any little thing can set these dogs off and dex is a 10lb yorkie not a little guy but once he starts vomitting he is very hard to stop - now i have given him little bites of chicken and no vomitting and he eats sometimes my maltese poop and she eats newman's own organic food (chicken and rice very high in grain diet) and he never vomits so GO FIGURE