my Yorkie has been vomitting for two months!

[motya]

Originally Posted by dwerten

sulcrulfate is pepto bismal without the aspirin for dogs. Many dogs are lactose intolerant so i would not use yogurt as can make them worse. I use non-dairy probiotics - it is dds plus and you can get from vitamin shoppe - sounds like your dog first spun out of control from stress colitis then food changes have made it worse most likely. Colitis can be tough to treat if it spins out of control and vomitting is a sign it has as then the entire digestive tract is inflamed both small and large intestine. If just diarrhea then large intestine only is affected. Also t/d may have an ingredient in it for teeth like chlorhexedine like the cet chews which can cause some dogs to vomit and why i do not like it ingested. I use chlorhexedine to wipe the teeth though as it is the best to kill bacteria and why they use for non-anesthetic cleanings and regular cleanings in humans and dogs.

This is just my take - how is your baby doing now?

I think you are right about entire digestive tract. And I blame myself and most of all my vet doctor. Instead of finding the best cure he tried to rip me off with Xray, and all kind of tests. His first two prescriptions didn't help at all and I asked myself to give me sulcrate, which seems helping her. But the valuable time was lost. I never switch from one food to another without giving small amounts at first. And in 3 years Maggie never had diarrhea before.
Now the question is - what can I do to help my baby to cure? I don't trust my vet any more. If I have to cook for her - I would do it. I just want to know what should I cook and how.
Somebody told me about raw eggs, that it can help, but I am not sure yet.

[dwerten]

Originally Posted by motya

I think you are right about entire digestive tract. And I blame myself and most of all my vet doctor. Instead of finding the best cure he tried to rip me off with Xray, and all kind of tests. His first two prescriptions didn't help at all and I asked myself to give me sulcrate, which seems helping her. But the valuable time was lost. I never switch from one food to another without giving small amounts at first. And in 3 years Maggie never had diarrhea before.
Now the question is - what can I do to help my baby to cure? I don't trust my vet any more. If I have to cook for her - I would do it. I just want to know what should I cook and how.
Somebody told me about raw eggs, that it can help, but I am not sure yet.

yeah i would not do raw eggs with an unhealthy digestive tract as you could be asking for trouble there like salmonella - I would recommend doing probiotics 30 min before food in am so you can coat the digestive tract with good bacteria before food goes in - what are you feeding her now? and what was she eating before this whole thing started after the pet store and did it start with diarrhea or vomitting? My dd gets diarrhea when she gets stressed from vet visit so i double up probiotics with a little pumpkin and it stops the diarrhea immediately as she now tends to get colitis from an incident with metacam

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by motya

I think you are right about entire digestive tract. And I blame myself and most of all my vet doctor. Instead of finding the best cure he tried to rip me off with Xray, and all kind of tests. His first two prescriptions didn't help at all and I asked myself to give me sulcrate, which seems helping her. But the valuable time was lost. I never switch from one food to another without giving small amounts at first. And in 3 years Maggie never had diarrhea before.
Now the question is - what can I do to help my baby to cure? I don't trust my vet any more. If I have to cook for her - I would do it. I just want to know what should I cook and how.
Somebody told me about raw eggs, that it can help, but I am not sure yet.

Please don't be so hard on your doctor; he wasn't ripping you off with an X-ray, doctors are trained to treat the most serious or life threatening disease first, and vomiting can indicate an intestinal obstruction where time is the essence. A doctor's job is to rule our illnesses and they are a lot like a detective using tests to rule out things. The same set of symptoms can be produced by so many different things, and it's no easy task to find out the problem without any verbal input from the patient. I mean a dog can't say, my tummy hurts after eating xyz. Your vet has more information than he did before, but I've seen so many people go down the road of treating each symptom separately, and the illness, is never diagnosed. I urge you to stay with your vet, and tell him your concerns, when your vet wants to do more tests, ask about those tests, and make sure you understand why the vet wants to do the tests, if after discussing it with your vet, you still don't feel like you trust him, please find a vet you do trust, he will be one of the most important people in your life.

I also suggest that you keep a journal and chart your dog's symptoms. For example, the title of your thread says your dog has been vomiting for two months, but we should know, how often, everyday? How many times a day, what is the amount, and what are the circumstances, meaning what happened in the hours before. The more detailed information you can give your vet the better he's able to diagnose the problem. I mean Yorkietalk members can tell you if their dog has had similar problems and what helped their dogs, but we are not trained to diagnose a disease or illness. Your dog could be vomiting because it experiences low blood sugar at one point, and vomiting for a totally different reason at another time, so that’s why it's important to keep details.