Vomiting

[DebraDownSouth]

Hope he feels better soon. :(

[Patty]

I do so pray that he is better soon. It's so worrying for you and you have to trust your vet. Please keep us posted.

[dmey]

Thanks again for everyones good thoughts!!, Ayo is finally doing little better..he hasn't thrown up since yesterday at 6 pm. I was at the vet again this afternoon and he got yet another dose of everything. he had very small amounts at a time of yogurt in the afternoon, and now he had about 20 cc's of chicken and rice stew that I made as directed by his vet. I gave it to him very slowly, he loved it and wanted to gobble it up.. it looks like he is going to be fine.. I'm having trouble withe Internet so I went out to get some take out and use it.. Hopefully he will not have vomited when I get back…... Tomorrow morning is e last visit, hopefully, to the vet and will start him on ID again...

[nobarkus]

I hide 1 of these in Buddy's food daily. He'll eat food thrown on the ground or garbage along walks and sometimes I can't get it out of his mouth. It's called Pearls and can get past stomach acid and has a high bacterial count. They're very small and round like a small pearl.

[Buddys Pal]

@DebraDownSouth:

Can you give a link to the article? I have seen people hawking coated probiotics, but have yet to see research confirming a need for the added expense of them.

Studies on probiotics don't confirm that. Perhaps because products like Fastrack have MASSIVE amts compared to yogurt… but studies on yogurt in humans haven't shown that either. If there is something new, am most curious to read it.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/lactobacillus-acidophilus-000310.htm

http://dwb.unl.edu/teacher/nsf/c11/c11links/www.bact.wisc.edu/scienceed/lactobacillusacidophilus.html

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/05/probiotics-ibd/

Ok, here is an article, not the one I read in a magazine at the vet's office….anyway:[http://www.academicjournals.org/ajmr/PDF/pdf2011/…/Akpinar et al.pdf -](http://www.academicjournals.org/ajmr/PDF/pdf2011/.../Akpinar et al.pdf -) describes the yogurt's culture and testing. If the recommended ph for yogurt for optimun action is 4-4.1 and the acid in the stomach of the dog is ph 1- and ours is around 5 then it can be concluded that the cultures are pretty much deleted. Yogurt for the dog's diet may be for the protein as in Ayo conditon where the doc's didn't want the stomach to produce the required acid for digestion (here is an interesting article comparing our stomach to the canine…:http://k9joy.com/RawFoodForDogs/DigestiveSystemExcerpt.pdf. So, I hope you got the information you requested. The pearls sound like a good idea!

[lvoss]

This article is just not correct in its facts about human digestion. At rest the human stomach's pH is about 5 but during a meal it drops to between 1-2. This would be the same as a dog's stomach.

[dmey]

Well…. Just got back from the vet again... Now I started with the ID again,, one spoonful every fourhours... Hopefully he'll keep it down. Then is afternoon again, hopefully the last of the vet treatment!!!! ...The pills sound like a good idea,.. Hopefully it will helpavpid his stomach getting so irritated over stuff he eats on the street. This is the second time it's happened. The first time it was no big deal though , I gave him some omperazole and he was fine. This time was really bad!!!.. Ill look into it. I was thinking I was going to have to get him a muzzle, to walk with so he doesn't eat stuff that may hurt him.. But I don't want to do that....

[krunzer]

Hopefully he feels better and you don't have to go to the vet anymore….What is ID?

[dmey]

Ohh it's a canned food, I don't have it with m e now, but I think it's science diet, special for gastrointestinal problems,.. It's called I.D? The vet gave it to me to give him….

[krunzer]

Oh, well hopefully he can keep it down! Best of luck to the little guy.

[DebraDownSouth]

Okay first link doesn't work.
The 2nd is from a person hawking food, his book… not research nor accurate:

But raw food is not simple to digest… it takes some very strong chemistry to
break down raw proteins. So, the dog's stomach will produce some large
amounts of strong acid, thus lowering the pH level down to somewhere
between 1 and 2!this very low pH level is much lower that
what your stomach can produce - a human stomach generally operates
around pH=5

ACTUAL levels.. as pointed out, humans and dogs during digestion the same level
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/digestiv.htm

The stomach contains hydrochloric acid (HCl) strong enough to dissolve metal (pH about 1.5 to 3, usually around 2), which kills bacteria and helps denature the proteins in our food, making them more vulnerable to attack by pepsin.

[dmey]

looks like Ayo is finally over the whole thing!!!! he is now eating about half a cup of the canned ID food, and is doing well. Thanks for all the support!!! I still have to go back to vet tomorrow for check up, but I feel ita finally over.

[Patty]

I'm so relieved and pleased for you both.

[DebraDownSouth]

Glad Ayo is better!