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Originally Posted by kokopelli  Hello, This may be a long post so I appologize ahead of time. I'll try to keep it simple. Approximately 3 days ago, my yorkie got into food that wasn't his. He ended up getting several bites of Little Ceasears food that is a treat for one of my other dogs. Mikki has a very sensitive stomach and when this happened once before, be vomited and had diareaha for one or two days and then began eating again. This time, I think something more serious is going on. He did not have any diareaha but did throw up for two days. This is the morning of the 4th day and he still has not eaten anything (so it's been 3 days with only just a handfull of chicken) he is drinking lots of water and I have given him karo syrup to keep his blood sugar up. He is walking around but is definitely not himself. While researching on the internet I came accross the symptoms for Cushings. Mikki has many of the symptoms like the potbelly, excessive drinking and peeing and is constantly hungry. Now I'm confused because although he has all of these symptoms on a regular basis, right now he's not eating at all and I understand throwing up is not a symptom for Cushings. I need to get him to eat something until I can get him to our vet tomorrow. I'm scared that it's been three days now with just water, karo syrup and a handfull of chicken. Could someone please help me know what to do for him? Thanks so much......Kayla |
Letting him drink too much water will make things way worse as you are diluting the electrolytes. you can pick up pedialyte from your drugstore, it is in the baby section of the drug store and it is an electrolyte solution. You can give as much as 9 cc's at a time maybe acouple of cc's wait a bit give another bit wait a bit then the 3rd, doing this 3 times a day. BUT if he throws it back up it won't do any good.
To properly diagnose if it is cushings the vet needs to run a blood test for potassium/sodium levels. The symptoms can be similiar to other bowel issues.
I agree with the other poster, you need to try find a good Vet today that can take action with him. A vet can pull a blood sample, put him on IV or put inject fluid under the skin to take care of dehydration. They can go down and be in crisis in less than 24 hours.