Puking Lab

[SneakyPhil]

So our lab has taken to puking on a semi regular basis. Used to puke once in awhile. Typically after eating or drinking a bunch of water and getting excited. Now he does it more often and not necessarily for the reason above. We haven't changed his food or anything like that. He doesn't get any scraps or treats. We used to give him fruits and vegetables now and again but only a few pieces. We stopped that all together. We make sure he doesn't get into the trash. He's an inside dog and we typically watch him when he goes out in the backyard. Took him to the vet two weeks ago and they couldn't find anything wrong with him. No masses in the stomach, no fever and was deemed health. They put him on nausea meds for four days and antacids.

He was doing fine then last week he threw up about two hours after he had his breakfast. The next day we woke up and found he had thrown up sometime after midnight. He had had some water when I let him out at midnight. Then that evening he threw up about three hours after eating. We took him to the vet yesterday they drew some blood and x-rayed his guts ($$$$). All came back normal. They have us more nausea meds and asked us to feed him a mix of his regular food and Purina Veterinary Gastroentric (SP). So far he's been ok (crossing my fingers). We feed him Bill Jac Sensitive with white fish cause he had a skin issue. We've feed him that for years. I've even started giving him bottled water to see if that helps.

Anyone go through this? Any ideas? He's four years old and been pretty healthy otherwise. Doctor says next step is a biopsy of the guy if he doesn't improve.

[Cbb1722]

He might have a worm or two causing it. Do you worm him? And if you do with what?

[catslayer]

My bet is eating to fast... I would change food to just to try it. We moved away from Purina yellow bag after a situation like this

[Johnny Dangerr]

Completely change his food. If feeding poultry switch to beef......

[Vap]

Food allergies
Try burger and rice or cottage cheese , the burg needs to be lean very lean.
He may need to be on this diet for a while

[Drycreek3189]

I'm assuming the vet checked for diabetes ? If not, I'd check that.

[texashunter]

I don’t have any suggestions, but I hope they can find out what is causing it. I’d keep going to the vet until they figure it out. My 7 yo lab got sick one weekend and started throwing up and wound up dying from twisted stomach. He was a stud hunter who was really hitting his hunting prime. I hope your hound can be helped.

[SneakyPhil]

Maximus Pretyboy Lankford. Picture from a while back. He's a great dog. Good with the kids. A bit of a whiner. Seems to be able to hear me open my eyes at 4 am so he'll come over and stare at me till I get up to let him out. Hope it's nothing bad.

[glen]

I would ask vet about a RAW diet

[TXDraht]

Your situation sounds a lot like what I just experienced with our dog. After numerous tests, nausea meds and xrays, my vet determined it had to be a food allergy. We switched her to Hills I/D dog food and it has resolved the issue. It took about 10 days for the vomitting to stop. Happy to have a healthy dog again, not liking the increased food bill though. Hope they get your pup fixed up soon.

[spikebuck]

Your situation sounds a lot like what I just experienced with our dog. After numerous tests, nausea meds and xrays, my vet determined it had to be a food allergy. We switched her to Hills I/D dog food and it has resolved the issue. It took about 10 days for the vomitting to stop. Happy to have a healthy dog again, not liking the increased food bill though. Hope they get your pup fixed up soon.

Lots of variables but I would put him on a different feed. Hills ID is a good one. There are some good prescription diets out there. My best guess is that you have to find the right one for him. Again, lots of variables to be factored into this problem.

[BigRed323]

Lots of other steps to try before going under the knife for a biopsy.

A couple of months ago, my 5 year old GSP starting having a little more vomiting than usual. First, didn’t think anything of it, but before I knew it, it had progressed to at least every other day with sometimes blood tinge to it and acutely developed problems with bloody diarrhea. She would even sometimes go 2-3 days without wanting to take a bite of her food. Since I am her Vet, she got a full work up. Bloodwork, x-rays, multiple fecal tests performed, endocrine disease testing. All tests always came back normal.

Tried treating with broad spectrum dewormers, antibiotics and it would improve while on meds, but then revert back as soon as I finished the course. Only thing I hadn’t done was switch her diet and figured I’d give it a shot before taking her to a specialist. Started her on Hill’s low fat I/d and she has returned back to her normal psychotic GSP state. No more diarrhea, no more vomiting since starting it so hopefully you have the same results with your pup.

[PvillDVM]

See if your vet will do a barium swallow test.

[bk_tradguy88]

My lab was the same way. We never changed food, and she never had scraps. After a very short visit with more anti nausea meds, and a X-ray that told us nothing. I was left with an almost $300 vet bill and she told me that hopefully she would quit, because her only other answer was exploratory surgery starting at $1500. I loved her, but told her before I spent that with no likely answer if she couldn’t just get past it I would have to evaluate if she went on or was put down. I guess she heard me, she didn’t puke again for over a year, and that was because she ate a bunch of hickory nuts at the skeet club.