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Originally Posted by dottiesyrky  So sorry that poor Anna has the loose and bloody stool. Did your vet think it was still the lingering Pancreatitis or something else? Did they get a cPL number for her to see what the level of the disease is now? You say she is on Flagyl but did the vet also suggest Cerenia? I say this as when my dog had the P this helped him a lot with nausea. I also think that getting her on the canned ID Low Fat food is important. Could be even the bland diet you were giving her was too much for a weak tummy.
Sorry for all the comments, but they are based on what happened to my dog.
Hope she feels better soon. I know how concerned you are with your poor baby. |
I wish he had given her Cerenia because last night she began vomiting. At the time we saw the vet she wasn't vomiting, and even though the stool sample showed none of the parasites that could be seen through their microscope, he wanted to put her on Flagyl in case she had P *and* something else.
The vet didn't do more bloodwork, but palpated her, took her temperature, looked at her gums, did a pretty thorough exam plus the analysis of the stool sample. She seemed to feel okay other than the blood in the stool.
But when I got her home and gave her boiled rice with a tiny bit of low-fat cottage cheese and a miniscule amount of boiled chicken breast, she ate with gusto and may have eaten too fast or too much, though it was a small amount. Plus she's hard to give pills to but is suffering from terrible itching from allergies, so I wrapped half a Benadryl (approved by the vet) in a bit of the chicken and she threw that up whole. So now we're struggling to give her meds without food.
She was playing and acting more like her old self a little while ago, though not as vigorously as usual. I didn't let it go on too long because I assume she needs to take it easy.
She drank water and kept it down. So I peeled and cut up a potato and boiled it until it was falling apart and gave her a smear--about 1/8 of an eraser tip. She ate it (she was refusing rice or the cottage cheese--and she's kept that bit of potato down as well as the water, Benadryl and Flagyl. So I've got my fingers crossed and am waiting for the vet to call back about the vomiting.
She got up in the middle of the night and left a loose bowel movement on the floor--not something she would normally do. i slept through it but my husband cleaned it up, looked for signs of blood and saw none.
Guess this is going to be a longer road to recovery than I thought. I did copy a recipe for a homemade diet from a book at the vets office. I didn't like that it said to put a salt substitute and iodized salt in it, but I guess that's for the minerals. Also said to supplement with a children's vitamin and mineral pill. I think I'd prefer to make her a homemade diet, and maybe supplement with prepared dog food.
I had another beloved yorkie who passed from kidney disease in cancer in 2006 two keeps shy of his 15th birthday. He had also had pancreatitis. He hated the Hills Rx food, and even back then it was more than a dollar a can. Anna's 9.6 lbs. Not fat but a little bigger than the average yorkie. (Her brother is 13 libs.) Oh, and that's another thing: my dogs were on self-feed with their Blue Buffalo grain-free kibble plus, regrettably, table scraps, so I don't even know how much to feed her when she's well, though I'm sure that information is available in lots of places.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Every bit of information helps. And it's comforting to not feel so alone in this.