CanineVisions For A Healthy Dog: DIARRHEA

"...poor baby has diarrhea..."

"Garbage-gut syndrome," when a dog eats what he should not! Or, abnormally loose bowel movements, diarrhea, can be a concern!
One of the serious observations would be dehydration, the loss of water from the body.
Do take caution however, if your dog has watery
diarrhea often and is not eating or drinking, then your Veterinarian should receive a visit.
What to do immediately:
1. Stop feeding for 12 to 24 hours, to rest
the gut and allow the inflammation
time to heal.
2. If your dog is very complacent, or weak
during a fast, rub a sugar solution like
honey on the gums and take to
Veterinarian right away.
3. Keep water available always so dog
does not become dehydrated.
4. Often, a watery stool releases important
minerals from the body. What to do?
a. Rehydrate.
b. Gatorade - mix it 50/50 with
plain water and put into dog's
water bowl.
c. Pedialyte, and Ritrol another
rehydration fluid, can be
given diluted 50/50 with
water.

"...uffghh we all came from the same human food fest..."

SEE VETERINARIAN, IF DIARRHEA IS:
1. Black stool with tar-like consistency.
2. Extremely foul smell.
3. Containing large amounts of blood.
4. Accompanied by vomiting.
5. Giving severe pain.
6. Causing fever.
7. Causing loss of appetite.
8. Causing your dog to be lethargic.
9. Persists longer than 3-days with no
improvement.
FOLLOW-UP CARE:
1. Serve small amount of bland food.
Cook plain white rice, or macaroni until very
soft. Mix with boiled skinless boneless
chicken breast.
Offer this bland rice mixture in small but
frequent meals (3 or 4 each day)
When diarrhea is gone, increase each meal
quantity, and decrease the meal frequency
for 1-2 each day.
Then, gradually begin mixing your dog's
regular dry meal in with the bland rice
mixture:
a. 30% regular dog meal
b. 70% bland rice mixture.
Each day increase the amount of regular dog
meal while reducing the amount of bland diet
mixture until your dog should be back on
regular meals as before.
2. If your dog is not allergic to milk products,
yogurt has "good" bacteria that help to re-
balance the intestinal upset that caused the
diarrhea.
If your dog has lactose intolerance do NOT
give milk products.