i dunno, i looked them up online and none of the worms really looked like the ones i saw. im guessing whip or round..but i dont care as long as it GOES AWAY! he didnt have any fleas when i got him, but god knows before that..I dont know what the vet gave me cuz it wasnt in original pkg it was just half a pill they said will cure it all up..what should i expect? If the worms get cleared up how do i know it worked?

Ok...you made me laugh. I SO understand. Those things are creepy.

If the tablet is large and round (I realize you only have 1/2...but a large 1/2 :D ), my guess is that it is what I said and it will get rid of them. You could always send a fecal out in a couple of weeks to be sure.

thank god lol i guess it was a pretty big half. I CANT WAIT for this to be over..on the plus he did seem xtra playful today so maybe he is startin to feel better already:) He pooped in the cage while i was at work and i didnt see anything in it, but i CLEANED him and the cage like no other..with gloves haha i am so paranoid
thanks so much for all the advice btw:D
i love my baby boy:animal36

You are too funny! :D I am SO glad he is doing better and you can have some humor in your days! :) He is a lucky boy to be so loved.

I gave timmy the dewormer pill the vet gave me on tues morning with his breakfast. The vet didnt see any worms or eggs when he examined his stool, but the day before i took him i saw a living worm, possibly two in it. he gave me the wormer anyway, but now i am curious...how do i know its working?? I havent seen any worms since that ONE day..so i dont know whats going on...if he had worms wouldnt the medicine be killing them and he be pooping out dead worms?? I see NOTHING in his poo at all anymore (thou i dont inspect it really, its not soft and easy to squish..and gross anyway lol) I dont know if he's feeling better cuz he acts the same as usual. I havent tempted fate with the puking b/c i wanna make sure the worms are gone before i try to feed him his meal all at once and test out his dig system. if it was the worms causing the throw up (no worms were ever in it) then that would be great but i just dont know how much longer i have to wait before KNOWING that he has no worms anymore???

I am honestly not sure how long it works. I do know that they usually recommend a second treatment two weeks after the first. It has to do with the stages of development of the worms.

ya i asked that and the vet said i wouldnt need a followup treatment...but im gonna ask again. i still havent seen any worms so maybe he had a very small case considering i already dewormed him a few weeks ago...i did however try out the puking thing...i thought maybe it was caused by worms so i tried to feed him half his meal all at once this morning and he still threw up. So ill go ahead and get the barium study done tomorrow anyway. Most of the things i found online say dewormers usually kick in about 24 hours after ingestion and about a day or so later they shed dead worms but again..ive seen nothing since that ONE day..and his poo seems normal now. i took a picture of the vomit, and i put a tuff of his lost hair in a baggie so i can show the vet both of those in case that helps..and of course i have the log of his feeding for the last few weeks

wish us luck tomorrow! hope its nothing serious!

You probably will not need to do a follow up treatment if you are not seeing anything. I am sure your vet is right about that.

Good luck tomorrow! I will be thinking about you...please let us know how it goes!

BTW does anyone happen to know how to clean cotton squeaky toys? i have a ton of them and timmy has gotten a lot of them dirty with his nasty mouth...plus with the worm scare i would feel better if i could wash them somehow to protect him from catching them again somehow.. I have washed a couple in the washing machine before and they seem okay after i squeak the water out of the squeaker..but i dont wanna ruin all of their toys if theres a better way...any suggestions?:animal36

i wash mine in the washer and throw in dryer

I wash our plush squeaky toys in the washer on gentle cycle and then dry on normal setting in the drier. I've had to repair a few holes over the years, but it gets the toys all nice and clean.

Awesome thanks guys!!:) ill do that cuz they def need cleaned lol they are the last thing that hasnt been washed i believe since he took his wormer pill tues. i've washed every blanket, bed, and everything i believe...lol
thanx again! ill update when i get him back from vet tomorrow with results to barium

Timmy is officially at the vet! He will have the barium done first..then be given anesthesia for the teeth cleaning..if they find some blockage during barium they will take it out while hes asleep. thats actually what im HOPING for! I did everything i could. I took in a sample of the tuffs of fur hes dropping, 3 pictures of his vomit, a log of every time i have fed him for the past couple weeks with everything i have seen happen during his eating, and a stool sample from this morning. Also they weighed him for me and he has lost .3 lbs since i got him last month:( not that uncommon since he has problems eating i guess, but other than yesterday he has kept all of his food down for like a week or 2..anyway i am going to try not to think/worry about him while he's there until they give me a call....
Thanx again for EVERYONES help:D u can imagine how helpful its all been me being a first time yorkie owner and all

Will say a prayer for Timmy and keep my fingers crossed. Hope all goes well.

hope all goes well and you will have some answers soon

So the vet just called. The barium is done i guess, and they found NOTHING! which is good and bad, obviously. He said there was no pooling in the esophagus, so its not megaesophagus:) and he said it went straight thru the stomach with no problems and it seemed to be goin thru the small intestine now with no problems as well. HMMM so no blockage and no megaesophagus, and NO REASON for the vomiting. He said they are going to clean his teeth now, and maybe that will take some pain away or something that will make him want to eat slower and enjoy his food, but i doubt it. He also said there were no traces of worms that he could see in poo, so i guess thats taken care of as well. :) As for the hair falling out, he can see NO skin problems that would cause that either, the only scratching ive seen in around his harness so we can look there to see if it looks like thats where hes losing hair but i dunno cuz its impossible to tell. Hes a furball lol. He also told me to switch to a wet food for a while and see how that goes with the vomiting. Any suggestions?? obviously i have to stay away from the fish salmon type stuff cuz his stomach hated the dry food containing that.

hes a medical marvel!!! all problems and no reasons for them!!! anyone happen to be DR HOUSE for pets? lol

well, vet just called back and said they found some really really bad teeth in the back of his mouth that have to be pulled, so i cant pick him up today:( i hate the idea that hes not gonna be home all nite tonite and i cant pick him up until 4:30 tomorrow after work. im really depressed about leaving him there. however, they did say that these teeth could very well have been causing his really bad breath, and maybe the pain from them couldve caused the gulping, and the vomit. Still not much hope that vomit will stop, but its something at least.

Bad teeth can cause a lot of problems, so it's great he's having those removed. Hopefully this will give him (and you) some relief!

LOL....about Dr House for pets....we could sure use one at times like this!

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Sounds a bit familiar to me... But my 5-month-old pup just begun displaying signs of motion sickness... He had no problem going with me to places, but now, suddenly from the day of his first rabbies shot, he vomits every time we drive in the car. This is sooo fustrating that I have, with a broken hearth, decide he can't go with me places anymore :(

Hope someone can give you a good advice and will be attentive to get one myself!

i bought timmy a new bed for his arrival tomorrow from the vet..:) its adorable so i posted pictures..

still think it is inflammatory bowel disease as the intestines inflame when food enters the system that is inflammatory thus causing the vomitting.

Hair falling out is a sigh of hypothyroid so i would have a 6 panel thyroid done on next blood draw

could be BUT my maltese had 27 extractions and she never vomitted or gulped food and she had some loose teeth :( just comparing mine to what you are dealing with to see if that helps and i am not sure why they need to keep him over night ? is someone with him all night as my demi came home that night no problem after all those extractions.

yeah my dex use to be able to go places too but now he is home bound as he got older he got car sick more - it stresses him out too much and not worth putting him through that if it stresses him so much plus he is prone to ibd and pancreatitis so not good for him to start vomitting- it stinks as he is so social and would love to take him to meet ups

i guess he had to stay overnight b/c they ran late b/c of the pulling and they closed at five. the vet didnt wanna send him home unless he had come out of the anesthesia completely first. im gonna try the wet food thing now that the teeth are gone and see how that goes. if that doesnt work, i may have to call another vet for a second opinion cuz i have done everything. he has no problems at all when i feed him slowly, so i dont know what it could be now that they've checked everything. vet seems to think he just developed this problem from having to compete for food and eating way too fast for the first part of his life..i dunno, we'll see. im hoping it was the teeth cuz i have noticed sometimes when he eats he stops to bat at his teeth/mouth like theres something caught somewhere.

i did look up IBD and i didnt get much. lol he does have vomiting, which is a sign that it would be in small intestine like you said..but he doesnt vomit when i feed him a little at a time, so how can that be it? It takes me about 10-15 min to feed him 1/8 cup or maybe less time sometimes. i dont have specific amts that i give him at a time really, sometimes more, sometimes less but its always 1/8 cup for breakfast, and 1/8 for dinner. And the vet saw no problems with the small intestine during the barium study either..so i would assume that it would have become inflamed during that too?? i dunno, i may ask him again about it just in case, but i hope its just the teeth thing.

no it will only inflame with an inflammatory food or substance and he was on drugs under anesthesia and the substance is probably not inflammatory. Scoping not barium swallow is how they diagnose ibd - but i never had mine scoped just knew it by symptoms

ibd dogs have to be fed 3-4 small meals a day to help digest food. If they eat fast and too much they vomit the food back up and that is what your dog is doing :( Also blood work can come up totally normal but sometimes amylase and lipase and cpli are elevated which is an indicator. The fact that he is throwing up food is a very big indicator as the food is not getting digested out of the small intestine. The barium swallow only tells you if the intestines are blocked not if they will inflame

honestly i would have done the scoping over the barium because of the fact that he was pooping fine and if blockage they will not poop either :(

here is some info on ibd

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in Dogs

Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Dogs

alot of yorkies have this :( and the owner gets real frustrated as they vomit food or have diarrhea and nothing shows up on blood work or fecals

i bet this is why he was given up to rescue as the previous owner was so frustrated and could not figure it out :(

yeah usually they will not eat due to bad teeth as my demi would just lay there and not eat as much - did he have loose teeth in his mouth? If absesses in mouth they will not eat it is too painful. I see more not eating when teeth issues - teeth happen fast too as my demi had one loose tooth i freaked and by the time i got urine and blood work prior to anesthesia and a dentist second opinion she had 10 loose teeth i freaked out but i thought petzlife gel was going to work as used for a year to reverse tartar and did not save us. She did not have much tartar at all either which is why i was so surprised

Ask if anyone was with him last night as one thing that upsets me is when they leave the dog there all night and no one is there with him checking on him all night as this happens alot after spay and neuters and then the owner asks if anyone will be there over night and vet says NO - not cool. I brought mine home for spay, neuters and all dentals never had to leave over night - if they are with him 24/7 then ok but i bet no one was with him and hope i am wrong

no idea if anyone was there. hes home now:) I talked to the vet and he said they took out practically all of his teeth in front and one or 2 in back b.c they were so bad and he has gum disease:( but he said the rest of his teeth look good now. he gave me some antibiotics to give him for a while, but he should start feeling better now. He also fed him some wet food and he didnt throw up so i have to get some and try that out. He did say that he doesnt think it is IBD, even of the small intestine, b/c he throws up SO FAST after eating/while eating that the food hadnt had time to get that far into the digestion yet..so if it is inflammation it would prob be of the stomach..but we prob wont do any of that until later if it doesnt stop.
Also he wasnt given up..he was taken from a puppy mill, where he was used as stud:( and they clearly didnt take care of HIM so im glad they took him away. One of the poms they rescued from the same breeder had gum/teeth problems also..so this lady should NOT have been breeding small dogs. my poor baby. they did say if i want we can do the gel thing to keep his teeth clean or protect against bacteria but the best thing we can do is just keep an eye on them and have them checked/cleaned at least once a year..theres nothin we can do about him havin gum disease other than that..i dont care if he has teeth as long as he doesnt have organ failure later in life, cuz ive heard that periodontal disease can cause that!

yeah my demi does fine with 15 teeth and it is much healthier than having gum disease -- i use chlorhexedine wipes from drs foster and smith it keeps bacteria down in mouth

i hope the wet food continues to help :( that is odd as when dd had colitis from metacam and she was all inflamed she vomitted the food right up after eating it immediately so i had to soak it for 30 days before she could keep it down