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Originally Posted by PILOTthePuppy  I think they just want to rule it out. He's not in any sign of pain. I also want to mention Pax and Pilot were coming off antibiotics late last week.
To recap, Friday afternoon Pax had loose stools and yesterday it progressed into the cowpie with some blood. He also would not eat much all day. We gave him sucraflate an hour before administrating metronidazole, cerenia, and a pinch of tylan powder yesterday with his dinner. Pax ate breakfast this morning, was picky at lunch but ate a few hours later, and ate all his dinner. He also has not had a bowel movement in 24 hours. I assume this means he'll have a normal bowel movement soon. We gave him the sucraflate, metronidazole, and tylan powder twice today.
Pilot also had loose stools Friday. We gave him metronidazole on Friday night and he had a normal bowel movement this morning.
Could they be fighting some infection if they did have hookworms? It's weird that going back on antibiotics seems to stop the diarrhea.
I'm calling my vet tomorrow morning about the ultrasound and IM vet which I think requires a referral. |
You don't need a referral to see an Internist - you just call them yourself. However, it would be good to for the Internist to see the records from the generalist. Get the ultrasound done WITH the Internist -
not with your general vet!!!
Has giardia and c.diff been ruled out....?!
Btw, if it's pancreatitis - you may not see the pain they're in - in many pancreatitis dogs, you won't -- they're just too debilitated.
I'm SUPER confused as to why/how they're on/off Metronizadole here...? It seems like they are on it at times for 1 day, or 2days or...? This makes no clinical or logical sense to me. Is this something you're electing to do yourself..? If so, pleeeeeaaase stop *immediately*! Because what you're actually doing here is creating the perfect storm for antibiotic-resistant bugs to develop and grow stronger
inside your dogs' bodies each and every time you give an antibiotic for *shorter* than the normal prescribed duration (10-14 days). THAT is a main reason we now have antibiotic-resistant germs/bugs/strains in our lifetime. SO, if it turns out that this entire sickness IS indeed a bug -- you've been dosing that bug w/ short bursts of antibiotics - not actually killing it with them - just giving the bug the opportunity to grow more and more resistant to that particular antibiotic bc it was only given in short duration - so bug survived, and evolved with some drug-resistance now too.
I would really get to an Internist ASAP -- even if you just take 1 dog first.