Help - Campylobacter - irritable bowel

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I have a rescue dog from Ireland. When he arrived (Dec 07) he had terrible diarrhea. After a couple of months of vets visits and lots of worm treatment (which helped a bit) the vets finally agreed to get a specimen tested for campylobacter which proved positive. He has had one course of antibiotics. This improved things for a week or so but now, although not as bad, the first poo in the morning is quite solid but full of grass (he eats a lot of it!) and as he poos throughout the day it gets looser and looser. He has the odd "mistake" at night too - it seems he just can't hold it. He can poo up to 8 times a day! The vet has suggested changing his feed to fish and potato complete food but this costs about £45 a bag! Does anyone have any other suggestions? Could another course of antibiotics help? Can anyone suggest a good food - He has tried James Wellbeloved and numerous others.
 
I would go for a bag of rice and then a fairly bland tinned dog fod. I would also push for a re test if the rice doesn't help as if Campylobacter is still around, another course of antibiotics may be needed!
 
Pick a diet and stick to it- the blander the better, there are plenty of good chicken and rice dried diets.
I also recommend feeding a pre and probiotic on a regular basis, some feeds have it added in. You need to stabilize his gut flora in order to help it work efficiently.
 
About potatos, remember that by some reason, it doesn't fit everybody to eat this years harvested potatos, though they're fine with last years.

In Sweden we have something, that according to my dictionary, translates to processed sour milk, it containes good bacterias that I've allways given my dogs when they've had stomachproblem (I eat it for breakfast every morning BTW). Don't you have some healthproducts like that to try?

If nothing else works have you tried chinese acupuncture?
This far it has improved three of my dogs last years and my now 13 year old CAT with backproblem is fully mobile again, without painkillers.
And two of the old dogs that had started loosing they're hearing, I had taken them to the acupuncturist for other reasons, but thought that hey, one needle more or less couldn't hurt
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, so I askt for a "earneedle" and they both started hearing better so that you at least didn't have to worry about spooking them anymore!
It takes about four to ten visits, and if it has effect, usually last a year.

Greetings from Sweden.
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I did try the James Wellbeloved Chicken & Rice for a couple of months but the vet said that lots of dogs are allergic to chicken which is another reason why he suggested potato and fish

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Allergic to chicken?? lol

We had bad results from JWL, our dogs as a breed are hypoallergenic. One of my bitches had Campylobactor, a rectal prolapse and twisted gut as a pup (a week after we picked her up) she was put on ID tinned meat and then the vet suggested chappie as its soft on the gut.

Have you considered a completely raw diet?
 
I did try Chappie when I first had him but he did have bad worms so it may be worth trying that again with boiled rice instead of cereal? As to the raw diet I'm a vege and would have a problem feeding that. I know.... I know what you are going to say but if its mashed up in a tin its easier for me to deal with!
 
Try chappie with rice then. If you fed it with cereal I'm assuming wheat was in there somewhere which is not digested by dogs.

Would you be able to cope with boxes of chicken carcasses/wings?

Surely sorting the dog out is paramount?
 
OK this is a long shot but a friend has a dalmation pup who came down with campylobacter about six months ago. After he had the all clear he still had major problems, diarrhoea and so on. He was given course after course of antibiotics and then put on James Wellbeloved and then Hills, all to no avail. My friend was worried sick, and gutted at the cost of his new diet. He had been wormed as expected with Drontal.... I suggested she try Panacur just in case he had Giardia (not that I'm an expert by any means), but we assumed the vet had ruled this out so I don't think she bothered.

Anyway the dog got worse, and then hey presto, they tested him for Giardia - it was positive.... a course of Panacur later and he is fine now and back on normal dog food (Chappie or something!) and putting on weight at last.

So, just something to think about, wormer wise!
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