Dog regularly being sick

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Hi All

Does anyone have any experience of a dog that is sick for no apparent reason now and again? My Lab is now 2 years old and I have issues with her being sick on and off but she's fine in herself and still eating ok. She's very healthy in all other ways and competes in flyball etc with no issues

She has 2 feeds a day with James Wellbeloved Fish dry biscuits and I've been feeding her in a slow feeder bowl. She tends to be sick mostly straight after drinking water and most of the time her food comes up undigested but sometimes if it's hours after her dinner it's more bile like. Have gone through the whole intolerance route etc and the vets are stumped as it's very irregular intervals between sickness.

Wondering if I should look at some sort of supplement to help her stomach in general that may help? Or change her food to something less processed?

TIA for those who got this far

Signed... lady who is sick of clearing up dog sick

 

[CorvusCorax]

Hiatus hernia?

 

[nellietinker]

My Whippet was like this and eventually it turned out to be Pancreatitis

 

[AmyMay]

Any difference if you soak the kibble first?

 

[fankino04]

My boy used to be sick / bile early in the mornings fairly regularly but sometimes he would just throw up an entire undigested meal. Vet suggested feeding more often as the morning bile thing was more common and it worked, we assumed that when he vomited after a meal it was actually that his stomach had got to the point of needing to throw up just as the food went in if that makes sense.

 

[rara007]

Not judging your Labrador but - Gastric foreign body….?

 

[AmyMay]

My boy used to be sick / bile early in the mornings fairly regularly but sometimes he would just throw up an entire undigested meal. Vet suggested feeding more often as the morning bile thing was more common and it worked, we assumed that when he vomited after a meal it was actually that his stomach had got to the point of needing to throw up just as the food went in if that makes sense.

It’s why I feed three times a day.

 

[some show]

Same here, three times a day for the same reason!

Could you try her on a different food just for a week or two, maybe even a completely different food like tinned Chappie (very easy to digest)?

 

[twiggy2]

Pancreas issues
Acid stomach
Foreign body
Have you tried a hypoallergenic food just to rule anything dietary out?

 

[Kat_Bath]

I think I might have posted on here about similar - I'll have a look in a sec - but I have a 7yo lab who does the same. Always has but comes and goes - some weeks nothing, some weeks sick every day. He's on Purina HA mostly, with a bit of soaked kibble as the HA makes his poos so small and rock hard. I think it's when he drinks too much water straight after eating and sometimes it's just his burp is very big, so it brings stuff up with it. I do feed 3 smaller meals a day and a snack before bed to tide him over (I think he has mild acid reflux and I think his body is a grazer, but he is a Lab so can't be left to graze!). Someone on another forum suggested bionic biotic but I never tried it in the end as we just ended up settling with Purina HA small and often and intermittent sickness as he's otherwise healthy. I do try and get him to drink slower after food, sometimes I add quite a bit of water just before I feed and that seems to help.

https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/up-at-5-30-for-the-second-time-in-3-nights.801529/ similar but this was in addition to the odd bout of sickness. Now he just has the sickness and burps, less of the tummy noise.

 

[[139672]]

My dog had this issue until I switched to raw food. He has processed, soft raw. Since on raw not had this problem the last 8 years. I feed him twice a day and also a small amount at lunchtime and about 7:30/8pm. Id try something other than dried food. He’ll get lots of water from the wet food.

 

[Slightlyconfused]

My sisters dog has been diagnosed with Megaesophagus.

He just kept randomly being sick, which was actually a regurgitation, and her old vets just kept giving steriods and antibotics.
Moved to my vet and one of the senior ones once he heard of her case pretty much diagnosed him then and there and the scans just confimed.

Basically the oesophagus muscle doesnt work properly and in the case od my sisters dog has a pouch half way down which he good sits. So he is fed sat up in a bucket (he is tiny) or our dad made a Bailey Chair for him. Once he has eaten he has to sit for 20 ish minutes for gravity to do its thing and the food to fall into his stomach.

 

[Cob Life]

My Whippet was like this and eventually it turned out to be Pancreatitis

Second this, mine was like this and it turned out to be mild pancreatitis and a chicken and beef allergy.

I think I might have posted on here about similar - I'll have a look in a sec - but I have a 7yo lab who does the same. Always has but comes and goes - some weeks nothing, some weeks sick every day. He's on Purina HA mostly, with a bit of soaked kibble as the HA makes his poos so small and rock hard. I think it's when he drinks too much water straight after eating and sometimes it's just his burp is very big, so it brings stuff up with it. I do feed 3 smaller meals a day and a snack before bed to tide him over (I think he has mild acid reflux and I think his body is a grazer, but he is a Lab so can't be left to graze!). Someone on another forum suggested bionic biotic but I never tried it in the end as we just ended up settling with Purina HA small and often and intermittent sickness as he's otherwise healthy. I do try and get him to drink slower after food, sometimes I add quite a bit of water just before I feed and that seems to help.

https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/up-at-5-30-for-the-second-time-in-3-nights.801529/ similar but this was in addition to the odd bout of sickness. Now he just has the sickness and burps, less of the tummy noise.

we started her on the purina HA but it’s not majorly palatable if you have a fussy dog and I found she had to eat a lot of it, our referral vets put her on Eukanuba FP which works and you feed a lot less than the Purina. She also has to be fed a minimum of 3 times a day but is often fed 4x (this is for behaviour issues too as a drop in blood sugar can make anxious dogs worse)

 

[Penny Less]

My sisters dog has been diagnosed with Megaesophagus.

He just kept randomly being sick, which was actually a regurgitation, and her old vets just kept giving steriods and antibotics.
Moved to my vet and one of the senior ones once he heard of her case pretty much diagnosed him then and there and the scans just confimed.

Basically the oesophagus muscle doesnt work properly and in the case od my sisters dog has a pouch half way down which he good sits. So he is fed sat up in a bucket (he is tiny) or our dad made a Bailey Chair for him. Once he has eaten he has to sit for 20 ish minutes for gravity to do its thing and the food to fall into his stomach.

I think I remember seeing dog in one of Paul O'Gradys programmes had this.