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JakeysMama · 04-29-2016, 05:36 PM

So today he went to the vet and we are trying sulfasalazine 3x a day along with the Flagyl still 2x a day.

This morning I gave him a quarter Pepsid in a Royal Canin little meatball and he wouldn't stop retching so I gave him a little Hills ID in his bowl and that settled him down, he was fine after that.
So when I went to my vet, I told him how I felt about the RC. I really feel he is allergic to something in it, maybe I'm wrong but he had a lot of accident on it.
My vet read the back of both ingredients and essentially said they are the same but that Hills ID had a slightly higher fat content.

I think that RC had more ingredients, there's plenty of probiotics in it, and if I put the Fortiflora in it there was a fight possible going on between that and the Flagyl.

My vet said we are going to go slow and in steps. First we try the sulfa drug, if there's no improvement in 2 weeks, he's going to suggest home cooking beans and rice made into a mash for 2 weeks, if he's not getting better, he's going to send him to Associates which is bad news cos that means he might have something terminal. But he said not to even think about that now, to let's try the sulfa and ID food with the Flagyl.

Jake had his first sulfasalazine pill tonight with dinner and had no side effects or allergic reactions thank God, then when I took him out he pooped a pretty formed brown poop with a little blood trace in it.
I was so happy just to see a formed poop of normal brown color, I was ecstatic!

Then just now I was playing with him and my Maltipoo and he ran onto the puppy pads and had soft poop again, I took him out and he had a few drops of diarrhea. That was probably my fault for playing too much and he drank lots of water so now we are just relaxing.

I have to just keep being hopeful, I truly believe this is an allergy caused colitis that was triggered by the stress of the shelter & coming to a new home. When I first got him, my maltipoo went after him. I was totally shocked but it resolved itself in a week and now my maltipoo is very gentle with him, but the first week was traumatic and could have caused him to flare.

04-29-2016, 05:36 PM	#14
JakeysMama Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Deltona, Fl. USA Posts: 38	So today he went to the vet and we are trying sulfasalazine 3x a day along with the Flagyl still 2x a day. This morning I gave him a quarter Pepsid in a Royal Canin little meatball and he wouldn't stop retching so I gave him a little Hills ID in his bowl and that settled him down, he was fine after that. So when I went to my vet, I told him how I felt about the RC. I really feel he is allergic to something in it, maybe I'm wrong but he had a lot of accident on it. My vet read the back of both ingredients and essentially said they are the same but that Hills ID had a slightly higher fat content. I think that RC had more ingredients, there's plenty of probiotics in it, and if I put the Fortiflora in it there was a fight possible going on between that and the Flagyl. My vet said we are going to go slow and in steps. First we try the sulfa drug, if there's no improvement in 2 weeks, he's going to suggest home cooking beans and rice made into a mash for 2 weeks, if he's not getting better, he's going to send him to Associates which is bad news cos that means he might have something terminal. But he said not to even think about that now, to let's try the sulfa and ID food with the Flagyl. Jake had his first sulfasalazine pill tonight with dinner and had no side effects or allergic reactions thank God, then when I took him out he pooped a pretty formed brown poop with a little blood trace in it. I was so happy just to see a formed poop of normal brown color, I was ecstatic! Then just now I was playing with him and my Maltipoo and he ran onto the puppy pads and had soft poop again, I took him out and he had a few drops of diarrhea. That was probably my fault for playing too much and he drank lots of water so now we are just relaxing. I have to just keep being hopeful, I truly believe this is an allergy caused colitis that was triggered by the stress of the shelter & coming to a new home. When I first got him, my maltipoo went after him. I was totally shocked but it resolved itself in a week and now my maltipoo is very gentle with him, but the first week was traumatic and could have caused him to flare.