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07-31-2019, 11:06 AM | #1 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Yorkie vomiting bile Anyone have a yorkie that throws up bile? What do you do? I dont want to run to the vet if the dog is barking and acting normal. |
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07-31-2019, 10:26 PM | #2 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| When Tibbe was doing this, sluggish, not eating for a couple of days at a time, seemingly better, would eat normally and then little bits of vomited bile appeared here and there about the house, if I hadn’t witnessed the vomiting. Misdiagnosed but treated for nausea for a while, through YT I finally began to suspect liver shunt or MVD, as he had been rubbing his head as if to scratch it all the time, so I requested the appropriate fasting blood fats test, I think is what the blood test was, which led to a nuclear medicine test, followed by a sonogram and his diagnosis was thought to be MVD, as liver shunt was ruled out during that testing. To truly be able to diagnose MVD with certainty, he’d have to have a liver biopsy but as his treatment would be the same, with a special liver diet, if it were MVD, he should get better if the suspected MVD diagnosis were correct. Treated with diet change and then went on probiotics and all his N&V, lethargy problems disappeared 6 years now. He’s back to being himself, before the onset of symptoms. He was 4 years old when a little bile vomiting first showed up, got worse and finally tested, diagnosed and treated successfully during the next year. Tibbe’s the only dog I’ve had that, for an agonizing while, regularly vomited bile.
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08-01-2019, 07:29 AM | #4 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| If he returns to occas. vomiting bile again, seriously think about insisting your vet run a fasting bile acids blood test on Jojo. It's what started the trail to our answers and totally learned from my YorkieTalk base of friends and their wealth of knowledge. And I'm so glad Jojo is doing better, hopefully just a virus.
__________________ 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 |
08-01-2019, 09:38 AM | #5 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| It is normally due to any empty tummy. When is it happening?
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08-01-2019, 10:18 AM | #6 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Lots of dogs, even tiny, nervous Yorkies, have empty tummies w/out vomiting bile though. Something else usually going on when it keeps happening isn't there?
__________________ 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 |
08-01-2019, 10:33 AM | #7 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Dog vomiting He threw up around 3am. Then the next day. Just bile. Maybe he ate something weird. I feed him Lifes Abundance dry food and Fromm turkey and pumpkin pate wet food. Today he is eating drinking and seems normal. He is a very anxious dog. He eats early am then around 11am and again ar 4pm. Maybe he needs one more feeding or a snack. |
08-01-2019, 11:20 AM | #9 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Normally it has to do with an empty stomach. The best thing to do is figure out if its happening around times that their tummy might be empty and try to give a few extra snacks in there to see if it helps. If it doesn't then you can think something else is the problem and head to the vet. The majority of cases though it is just an empty tummy and nothing else.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
08-01-2019, 11:21 AM | #10 | |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! | |
08-01-2019, 11:22 AM | #11 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Probiotics help more in the gut not in the stomach so it wouldn't help with vomiting.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
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