Thanks for all your help we went to see Vet today they said she's got Colitis her colon is inflamed they give her an injection to help settle it down and some probiotics said no food for 24hours then just white rice and fish small amounts every couple of hours
I feel so bad not feeding her she keeps coming and sitting by my feet for food
I'm hoping for improvement tomorrow x
[MENTION=2649]Mush2017[/MENTION] sorry to hear your frenchie is dealing with these issues. I understand what you're going through. Did they give here cerenia shot? As a first step i'll advise that you try putting her on a hydrolyzed proteindiet to calm the GI tract first. You can ask your vet about either Hills ZD, Royal Canin hydrolyzed protein, Purina pro plan vegetarian or even try limited ingredient novel protein diets. Most ppl don't love hydrolyzed diets but they can help in colitis situations for most dogs. If you can afford it, do a biopsy/colonscopy if food is not making a difference. Try and stay away from rice and feathered proteins as frenchies generally cannot tolerate these. Try a novel protein your dog has never had like rabbit, bison or kangaroo but introduce this food very slowly. as some have mentioned, do a fecal test to eliminate parasite issues. it may be giardia in which case a course of panacur/dewormer will take care of it but you have to disinfect everything and ensure he doesn't get reinfected. Do some research online. We finally got rid of Nellie's girder through a natural routine not panacea because she was reacting badly through it. it was giving digestive enzymes on an empty stomach and hour before food 3 times a day for 7 days. Stop for 10 days and repeat. Please consult your vet before making any decisions or course of treatment because wha works for one dog doesn't for another when it comes to GI issues. If its not parasites then you have bigger issues to worry about, in which case perhaps hearing Nellie's story might give you an idea.
My nellie is 16 months old and has had GI issues from 3 months old after a near death experience with parvo, giardia, round worm and aspiration pneumonia at 9 weeks old. She was in the ER vet for two weeks getting treated for the above. After a few days out of the ER her GI symptoms started. after months and months of diagnostics and tests, she was diagnosed with eosinophilic and lymphocytic-plasmacytic inflammatory bowel disease ( both in the upper and lower intestines). She also has esophageal reflux issues. Her main issues were chronic vomiting/regurgitation, loose mucousy stools, stomach gurgles and discomfort. She was very finicky with food and we had tried kibble, home cooked and raw diet all for several months at a time and she would vomit or regurgitate and have loose mucousy stools. Her stools were great while she was on raw but occasionally they will be mush with mucous and blood sometimes. We did X-rays, ultrasounds, barium test, bloodworm and even surgery for a hernia and nares, palate and saccules surgery. But the only way we diagnosed IBD was when she did a biopsy of her intestines during surgery which confirmed the first type of the IBD. She then contracted giardia again and that made her IBD worst. We fought the giardia for months but it was had to get rid of due to the winter. During the time, she was at her worst with bloody stool and diarrhea daily for two months and vomiting blood. We did everything, tried every medication under the sun all of which she reacted to. We tried homecoming a novel protein, treating her for ulcerative colitis and nothing. Her specialists at the time told me to prepare to put her down if things didn't turn around. Since the beginning of her symptoms, she had tried the following proteins and food and got sick from each one. Chicken, turkey, beef, duck, fish (white and salmon), rabbit, lamb. Also she reacted to fish oils, too much seen potatoes, pumpkins, most probiotics and digestive enzymes and slippery elm to name a few. All of her vets had given up on her and they decided to give me a final referral to the veterinary college two hours away from me. We went there is March of this year and they have been a Godsend. They did another endocolonscopy and confirmed she had another type of IBD which is similar to churn's disease and her colon was very very inflamed. She also had a bleeding ulcer in the small intestine and colon. They put her on a two week course of omeprazole to treat the ulcer and the bloody poop and vomit stopped. They sent her biopsies to California for second and third opinions and then started a course of treatment. At the time we went to visit them, Nellie was on a diet of hydrolyzed protein by Royal Canin, before that she had tried 2 other hydrolyzed protein diets and they did not work for her. Hydrolyzed diets however are a Godsend for many dogs with colitis and IBD symptoms but each dog is different. You might want to talk to your vet about trying one to see f it helps your frenchie. At our visit to the vet college, they asked that i try metamucil or psyllium husk to help firm up her stool. They believed a fibre source and a low fat diet is what she needed, but the approach was introduce one thing at a time. So we stayed on the royal canon hydrolyzed diet and added the psyllium husk. It started to make her stools a bit firm but it gave her extreme gas and bloating. And it was through a fluke when i dropped a boiled white potato and she ate it did i realize the next day that her stools was getting more formed. I kept giving her the potatoes and it helped her stole so much. but she was still vomiting so the vets put her on Rayne low fat kangaroo maintenance diet. Its a canned wet food (also available in kibble) and i continued to mix the mashed white potatoes in with the canned food and viola! No vomit no diarrhea or loose stools. We have had flare ups along the way but only when she eats anything outside of this food.
I also have to say she is on the following medications for stability. She is on 1 mg of budesonide which is a corticosteroid. She has been on it since last october ( i really want her off it because she cannot put on weight on it, she looses her fur and as very elevated liver enzymes). They are looking to start weaning her off soon. She is on a combo of 5 mg of pepcid AC and 10mg of metoclopramide times a day to help with the acid reflux and regurgitation. She is on denamarin which is to help lower her liver enzymes. When she has a colitis flare up, we give her powder tyrosine three times a day until it resolves. No one flare up is the same though. Some are over in two days and others take 3 weeks. Good luck with your pup. Let me know if you have any more questions.
