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05-12-2020, 08:37 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Temecula
Posts: 669
| Milo is sick again with spitting up/soft stools Hi all, I would so much appreciate your help with my baby Milo. He is six years old and had a stent put in for collapsed trachea which does make him prone to coughing and gets a wholistic cough medicine at least 3X a day. About 2 weeks ago all of a sudden from nowhere he started having loose stools unformed and then started vomiting. There was some blood in the vomit, but he was vomiting about 5 times, like wretching. Took him to 24 hour ER and he was there all day, they did blood tests , xrays 2X gave him fluids and they said all tests and xrays turned out fine. They sent him home and told me to feed him white rice and a protein so for about 2 weeks I have been doing that. He has not been going to the bathroom much (he goes inside on his potty) but his stools are still very soft but more formed. However every now and then he start to wretch and I feel like a bubbling in his stomach and its two weeks already and still he is not well. Tonight he started to gag and wretch again and I only gave him a little rice and some low sodium broth. What could it be? His regular food is small batch chicken which I tried to feed him once or twice but he started wretching and having loose stools again so he hasn't had his regular food for almost 2 weeks. Feeding him white rice and chicken broth and gerber baby food, tied low fat cottage cheese but he just got diarreah again. So sorry for the long post. But I wanted to give you all the facts. What couild be wrong with him. He has a great appetite, he loves to eat and seems in good spirits. I just don't know what to do. Does anyone know why this has lingered and lasted so long or have any idea what could be wrong with him. Very grateful for anyone who can shed any light on what is going on with him. Thank you all in advance |
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05-12-2020, 09:44 PM | #2 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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If this keeps happening, ask your vet to do a fasting bile acids fasting test to see how his system is now capable of handling fats. My dog Tibbe had late-developing MVD when he was 4 1/2 - 5 years old, suddenly kept getting sick, was always having cycles of GI problems from lethargy, nausea, vomiting/dry retching, diarrhea, 2 days fasting and he was back to normal, feisty, happy, eating voraciously then sick and lethargic, GI symptoms worsening, diarrhea, fasting again and then normal and on and on until i found out here on YT about insisting on a bile acids test, which was abnormal and in light of his recurrent GI problems, lethargy cycles, he was worked up for possible liver shunt/MVD, found to likely have MVD, which we treated successfully with prescription diet. He got well, happy, feisty, terrier-like again and for the rest of his time, https://vetmed.tennessee.edu/vmc/Sma...D-Brochure.pdf Could be many things to vet follow-up, more testing is likely in order now that the symptoms have returned. May be food allergies, persistent bacteriological/viral infection, etc. Best wishes to you and your little one.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis | |
05-13-2020, 10:47 AM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Temecula
Posts: 669
| Thank you Thank you sooo much for your reponse-I will look into it What does that acrronym stand for? |
05-13-2020, 11:42 AM | #4 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
Posts: 22,140
| I think it's Microvascular Dysplasia of the liver. Once Tibbe went on Hill's i/d Digestive Care kibble, his life changed back to normal w/only GI sx. every 4 mos. or so for a couple years, then no more unless he foraged something in the back yard. Could not believe the change in his life!
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
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