Really Bad Night

[Christiansmommy]

Dale had a lot of vomitting around a month or 2 ago, as well as diarreha (sp?). He had been drinking pond water previously, so the vet treated him for giardia, which he didnt end up having. So he treated him for whip worm too (similair symptoms to the giardia). Now he had no blood in his vomit, but did have some in his poop. Whip worm is very hard to detect in their stool, but they felt he had the symptoms, so they treated him, and it turns out that was what it was, b/c the meds did the trick (he was also on pepcid). Anyway, this was a similar instance to yours, but anyway, i hope they find out what it is...it is no fun watching them feel so ill, and not knowing why, or what to do about it...please keep us updated.

[pipersmom]

My Piper had the exact same thing a few months ago. However, he had LOTS of blood in his stool.

I rushed him to the emergency vets, who gave it a name (I can't for the life of me remember what it was called, but it was an acronym of some sort). They sent us home after giving him something for his tummy and subcutaneous fluids to rehydrate him, with orders to take him to his regular vet the next morning. Of course, I was petrified and couldn't sleep for watching him all night.

As it turns out, our regular vet told us that the acronym basically stood for the symptoms, which is a really severe irritation of the stomach lining, blood in the stool, diarrhea and vomiting. It could have been caused by swallowing a foreign object. He told us he would be okay, and that it would have to run it's course. We didn't give him food that day, and started him on a bland diet for the next couple of days (boiled chicken, white rice).

He's fine now. We still don't know what caused it but my suspicion always was that it was some of a stuffie that he had played with the previous day that he tore to shreds while I was in another room of the house. He only had it a matter of minutes, but that's all I can think of that it could have been. I kept watching for him to "pass it", but never found anything.

I hope this helps. I'm sending up a prayer for Beaner.

[LorraineO]

Just saw this thread and I am so relieved he seems to be okay now!!!