I need help my yorkie has IBD!

[Oty]

Hello guys,

I m the owner of a 4 lbs biewer yorkie. She is 3 years old. I ve always had probles with her digestive system.
Since she was puppy she was a verry fussy eater. She never liked her dry food. I used to feed her human food( Chicken, beef, mash patatoes etc) i didnt knew this will damage her and at that time i was only happy that she is eating...
Anyway she used to have episodes of being sick every 6 weeks or so. She would woke up with noisy tummy then throw up foam then diarea with bloode or mucus sometimes. She wouldnt eat. The first vet i ve been to said it's because of her diet. I ve trayed to limit her diet and change it to dry food royal canin but she still was sick from time to time.
2 months ago i was in holliday back to my parents and my mom used to give her chicken leg boiled skinless and vegetable. She had this before many times. Sudently she did a very nasty episode with vomiting and lots of bloode diarea.
We rushed to a diferent vet specialised in gastroenterology problems. This vet did a proper investigations and we found out she has IBD. This is what he thinks. He said her intestines are the problem rather then her pancreas!
He gave her big doses of metronidazole injection twice a day for a week then pills for another 2 weeks. He also gave her pancrezym and some sort of hormon pills for allergy togheder with probiotics. We finished her tratment.
He advice us to compleatly change her diet and to give her new protein + fibre.
A protein she never ate before!. We trayed rabbit with sweet patatoes but she hated it and never ate it. We switched it to duck breast and green beans at the vet reccomendation. Duck was anothet meat she never had.

At the moment it s still not good. She doesnt get severe sick like before but almost everymorning i woke up with noise tummy following by a bit of throw up and i can see she is not good. She doesnt gave blood diarea anymore and the crises are not that severe but she is not well. She is not eating all day untill late at night when she feels a bit better. She rests. Now i only give her the duck with green beans. I m buying the duck from the ferm traying to keep it as organic as posible.
I dont know what to.do...i dont know what to feed her. It doesnt seems to work well for her. Everyday she is sick. Probably need to change diet again. Doctor said again new protein! I dont know any new protein meet anymore. I ve trayed all. I m at the end off my wits please help me. ☹😢What shall i do?? What food to give her? I m preparing her for a stomac biopsy next month.

[Lovetodream88]

IBD is caused by food allergies. My Callie has IBD. They put her on Royal Canin hydrolyzed small breed prescription food and it has made a huge difference in her life. Also if she is throwing up yellow foam that is bile which means her tummy is empty so you can talk to your vet about Pepcid and you might want to give small meals multiple times a day.

[pstinard]

Originally Posted by Lovetodream88

IBD is caused by food allergies. My Callie has IBD. They put her on Royal Canin hydrolyzed small breed prescription food and it has made a huge difference in her life. Also if she is throwing up yellow foam that is bile which means her tummy is empty so you can talk to your vet about Pepcid and you might want to give small meals multiple times a day.

Great advice. Here is some information on hydrolyzed protein and why it works for allergies: https://www.vetinfo.com/hydrolyzed-p...-dog-food.html

Basically, the protein source is broken down in smaller pieces that don't trigger the immune system.

I also agree about more frequent, smaller feedings. Our Bella had the same problem with vomiting in the morning, so we make sure she has a small meal just before she goes to bed, and another one after she wakes up in the morning. That solved the vomiting problem. Pepcid is also an option that our vet suggested if the frequent small meals don't work, but since the new feeding regimen worked for us, we didn't want to give Bella an unnecessary medication.

[Wylie's Mom]

Originally Posted by Lovetodream88

IBD is caused by food allergies. My Callie has IBD. They put her on Royal Canin hydrolyzed small breed prescription food and it has made a huge difference in her life. Also if she is throwing up yellow foam that is bile which means her tummy is empty so you can talk to your vet about Pepcid and you might want to give small meals multiple times a day.

This kind of diet may sound like a big step - but it can make a HUGE turn around in these kiddos, believe me!

[ladyjane]

I agree with the above posts. Another food you could try is Hill's ZD Ultra. I put one of my IBD pups on it years ago and had an immediate turn around in his symptoms! It is another food with hydrolyzed protein.

What tests were done to diagnose IBD?

[stevekberg]

My little guy has somwhat the same issues, he has been throwing up about once or twice a month for the past three years. Last week I was once again at the vet, they took an xray and said that his stomach was enlarged and has some kind of foreign object in it, well he likes to chew things and a year ago he chewed the stuffing out of his bed so I immediately assumed that was it. Next day I took him to the Blue something in Atlanta emergency room to have his stomach scoped. After waiting for half the day they came back with an xray saying that he must have passed what was in there and that he was ok. This week he threw up again this time with red spots in it, I panicted and took him to another vet, they gave him some pepto and somthing for nausia and sent him home, next week we have another appt with his vet here in Atl for blood work... to be continued.

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by stevekberg

My little guy has somwhat the same issues, he has been throwing up about once or twice a month for the past three years. Last week I was once again at the vet, they took an xray and said that his stomach was enlarged and has some kind of foreign object in it, well he likes to chew things and a year ago he chewed the stuffing out of his bed so I immediately assumed that was it. Next day I took him to the Blue something in Atlanta emergency room to have his stomach scoped. After waiting for half the day they came back with an xray saying that he must have passed what was in there and that he was ok. This week he threw up again this time with red spots in it, I panicted and took him to another vet, they gave him some pepto and somthing for nausia and sent him home, next week we have another appt with his vet here in Atl for blood work... to be continued.

You might want to have them do bile acid testing on him. Sometimes with liver shunts they can have periodic vomiting. May not be but since they often do happen in yorkies, it is always good to rule it out. The test is fairly inexpensive....around $100.