Hi Charisma, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your boy…. How I knew the H-Pylori came back was after finishing the 1st triple therapy meds he was doing really well then about 1-2 weeks later he got sick again, miserable, he was hungry acting like he was starving, like your boy is doing, he had his acid reflux & burping, licking mouth & swallowing, feeling sick, he wouldn’t settle, he was worse early hours of a morning when his stomach was empty, after he ate he was OK then 2-3 hours later starving hungry again & I know kibble would of just digested he cant be hungry & the vet that did his Endoscope + biopsies said, H-Pylori is hard to get rid of, we might need to do the triple therapy a few times, with different meds the vet said dogs with IBD all seem to get the H-Pylori it takes over & he said I normally do the triple therapy again & keep the dog on a low dose of the Metronidazole + he feeds his dog, well his wife cooks, white fish + tapioca gluten free diet for their dog, he has a dog with IBD as well, but poor Patch started getting side effects after being on a low dose 200mg Metronidazole after 1 month but I think it was longer more like 2 months cause I stopped & started the triple therapy again, he was acting real paranoid, scared of his own shadow & 1 morning he knows to stop & wait at the corner cause its a busy road but he just crossed the road real scared & I knew something isn’t right & google side effects to Metronidazole & told his vet what happened & she said stop giving it to him ASAP. I said I already did stop giving him the Metronidazole, so now when he takes the Metronidazole he’s only on it for 10-14 days, very low dose 200mg, just enough time to fix whatever wrong with his bowel & stomach…
Just tell your vet the last time your dog took the Metronidazole & Amoxicillin & didn’t get the Losec as well they forgot to give it here’s a link for human studies, there’s also studies done on Beagle dogs, look to your right & there’s more links about what meds work the best cause after taken certain antibiotics your dog becomes immune & you cant kill the Helicobacter then they found if the human or dog stays on Losec or Somac a PPI the Helicobacter doesn’t come back cause it cant breed in the stomach walls cause the Losec stops making the Hydrochloric acid that it needs to live, I put Patch on Taste Of The Wild grain free Roasted Lamb & Patch seem to get better I was just using the Mylanta every time he started his burping & I knew its coming back then I ask Patches vet can I do the triple therapy meds just 1 more time & we used the Losec, Clarithromycin & the Metronidazole & after the 10 days he stays on the Losec & she said OK the vet’s are learning as well, I also tried him on Tylan powder its like the Metronidazole & one lady said that helped her dog, I joined a IBD group & there were a few poor dogs with IBD they had the H-Pylori all the dogs that were on a steroids were worse & I’m so glad I didn’t put Patch on the Prednisone when I didn’t know he had the H-Pylori Prednisone gives you stomach problems & bad acid reflux so why would I give him the Prednisone, whe he has all those symptoms, I had 1 vet that wouldn’t see Patch all cause I wont give the Prednisone & then later when I found the vet Patch has now I told her the vet wanted Patch on 60mg Pred a day for a 40lb dog she said that’s way toooo much… I’m glad you didn’t give it to poor Patch…then Patch got better all last year, vet wrote out a 6 repeats scripts for Metronidazole & Losec & said when he needs the Metro just give it to him for 10-14 days & same with the Losec, then my vet rung me cause she hadn’t seen us for over 6 months, she was wondering what happened, she was so use to seeing us every month, now I tell her about all the new brands of kibbles coming on the market, her dog has colitis & she rotates her dogs foods cause she react to the foods like Patch & she has to change it around, her husband is also a vet & he asked how’s Patch going these days what did I end up doing….
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3925860/
