Well it’s been a while since I posted. Things are what I would call Stable. But she is still not back to pre sickness state. She has had a couple episodes of late night vomiting and it can be very challenging to get her to eat.
I stuck with the Wellness rather than trying to go back to the 4Health. The meds she is on is the Albon and Sucralfate. She was also taking the omeprazole but I switched that to Zantac just this morning. I am nervous about that. She has 2 more days on the meds besides the Zantac I might keep her on that.
I’ve been doing loads of research. Seems like low fat is the best way to go for her. In the past 3 days she has vomited 2x in the wee morning hrs in her crate. It was not just bile it had partially digested food in it.
Yesterday I went to Petco and bought a bag of Wellness Complete Health Healthy Weight. It’s fat is 6% min and 10% max. Fiber is 6% max. Protein is 21%.
I am mixing it in with the regular Wellness at a 1/4 to 3/4 ratio. She seemed to really like it, she picked it out of the regular Wellness. But when the new was gone she went back to just sitting there refusing to eat.
This morning was one of the 2 episodes she had vomited in her crate. It had to be after 3:00 am because I checked on her at that time and there was no vomit. She was fed at 10:00 pm but it took her 45 minutes to finish. Keep in mind this is only a 1/4 cup of food so not a huge amount. So anyway my point was she vomited after the first try on the new Wellness (albeit 5 or more hrs later) and it could have just been a coincidence. Also, is it normal to still see food in the vomit that many hrs later, it was ground up no solid pieces.
But I’m praying it’s not the new food. As the day unfolds today I’m sure I will find out. I was hoping the low fat food would be the key to settling her stomach and helping us all get back to normal but I don’t know if she will even make it through the transition process of one dog food to another.
My questions are… If the Wellness Healthy Weight does not work out, what else can I try that is low fat. I’m assuming low fat is what she needs for whatever stomach issues she has.
Next, when is the best time day or night to give this Zantac. It has occurred to me that some meds work better with or w/o food, but also if the wee hours of the night and day are when she is vomiting (at this point anyway), would bedtime be the best time? If so it won’t exactly be on an empty tummy because of that 10:00 pm feeding. I just am lost on how to help her. I have some ideas but don’t know how to implement them.
