Simple Ways For Your Dog To Feel Better

Canine Diarrhea: Simple Ways For Your Dog To Feel Better

This post was written by London Pet Sitter on December 4, 2010
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According to the AMVA (the vets’ association), canine diarrhea is the third most common problem they see in their offices. If this has ever hit your dog, you know how much this can disrupt your daily life. Stomach problems in dogs can come from too much bacteria in their intestinal system tract, or just from you giving them too much food or snacks. More troublesome cases can include bloating of the stomach and intestines or stomach cancer.

If your dog’s problems are mild and he is not vomiting or showing lack of appetite, you might be able to handle everything yourself. And here’s some tips you might be able to use if your dog has diarrhea. But if your little dog is vomiting or showing blood in his feces, you need to put him in the car and drive directly to the vet’s office.

Stomach problems and loose bowel movements in dogs may just be a side effect of simple causes like a change in dog food, an allergy to a certain food, indiscriminate gobbling of table scraps, and uncontrolled raiding of the trash bin where your always hungry friend might eat something that is not acceptable to his stomach. Other causes might involve parasites such as worms that cause a bacterial overgrowth or imbalance in the stomach.

If you look in your dog’s feces and see worms, (they can look like spaghetti or rice), you might be able to just get an OTC dewormer medication and this might clear everything up. But some parasites like Giardia or other worms you can’t see are not so easily dealt with by pet owners. This could lead to more stomach problems and more loose bowel movements. In cases like these, you must bring samples of your dog’s excrement to the vet’s office so he or she can run the right tests.

You can probably handle mild stomach problems yourself simply by letting your dog fast without anything to eat just for one whole day. This is with the assumption that everything else with your dog except the loose bowel movement is normal and there are no unusual symptoms being exhibited.

After a day of no food at all for your dog, give him or her a meal made of boiled hamburger, chicken and white rice with all the fat drained off of the meat. Just give your little dog friend small portions of food a half a dozen times a day until his feces are normal again. Sometimes, the vet would recommend small bits of yogurt so that beneficial bacteria can grow safely in the dog’s stomach.

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