Vomiting - advice

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I am looking for some help/advice please! My labrador is nearly 10 months old now and has had diarrhea and vomiting pretty much from when we got her!

Only a couple of weeks after I picked her up at 8 weeks old in August she started with diarrhea, she then suffered with it every 2-3 weeks for approximately a week at a time, it was pure liquid and made her feel very sorry for herself. Lots of trips to the vets, we had bloods, poo samples and many many antibiotics. When she came she was on eukanuba food so we thought it might be that, slowly changed her onto Royal Canin which originally seemed to settle her but only for a few weeks. Then about Christmas time we changed her onto James Wellbeloved.. since then the diarrhea has more or less cleared up apart from an occasional bout.

However for the past few weeks she has started vomiting at night. It varies but she tends to be sick 2/3 x a night on a bad night, sometimes not at all and others maybe once. But she now being sick at least once most nights. She is very rarely sick in the day, but is quiet in the day and not herself. I took her to the vets the week before last, her temp was 40 degrees! So the vet thought she may have a bug, she had some more antibiotics... that seemed to settle her, the antibotics finished last week and then for the past few nights the vomiting has started again. :( Oh and the other thing is she eats it back up immediately!! :(

She is now nearly 10 months old and never seems to be 'right' for any significant length of time and doesn't seem to be putting on weight (shes 20kg at the moment and has been for the past few months). She is a nightmare of a chewer (typical lab!) and has eaten her bed (the fluff and towel) which we have found in her poo over the last few weeks, so now I am panicing if she has eaten something which has settled in the bottom of her stomach. The vets don't seem to concerned and think its just bugs/picking things up but I am just worrying...!

Any advice?
 
I would be getting more pushy at the vets if it were me... Surely they are concerned about her weight? If this continue surely she won't put any more weight on.

I'm really no help as I'm not an expert and have only just got my first dog (6month lab who also eats his sick immediately)

Could you change the diet again?

Sorry not much help but didn't want to read and run.
 
Could easily be a partial blockage, I work at a vets and dogs sometimes have things removed from their intestines months after the item was eaten. X-ray time. If it's not a foreign body she needs some anti sickness medication of which there is plenty. If vet not interested, change vet!
 
I would also push harder with the vets.

Also consider a raw diet. Have you spoken to her breeder or do you know where others from the litter went. Some food sensitivities and forms of IBS can be genetic.

My own dog is a chewer and he does not get stuffed beds, he gets towels and fleeces, when he is in the house there is always someone to keep an eye on him and he is crated overnight. It's all very well saying 'train her not to chew things' but it's hard to teach a dog anything when you are not in the same room as it!!
If you cannot watch her/trust her not to chew things while you are not in the room, crate her for her own safety. And don't leave anything remotely edible within her reach.
 
Thanks everyone. :)

Shes just been sick a couple of times :( She is crated over night, her bed was towels with a bed sown into the middle.. but she managed to chew through the towel and the bed to fluff... !! :( So now she just has towels.. (which she stills chews). Good plan speaking to breeder... they have all the female line of family and have kept a couple of the pups so will give them a call.

Thanks. :)
 
If I'm right in reading your post OP then I feel there are or have been two things going on.....

Firstly when she was younger I think she may of possibly of had something like e.coli or campylobacter which caused the diahh and vomiting.

Now if I read this correctly she mainly has vomiting, I would be highly suspicious that she has a foreign body that is causing a partial obstruction and the only way you are going to find this out is to have her xrayed with possible barium studies done and if necc then the vets go in and have a look inside.

If you arn't happy then seek a second opinion xx
 
I would say she needs a camera down there... Scar tissue obstruction...

After a foreign object getting stuck and a removal my Dalmatian had scar tissue that made him vomit, a lot, he had to have a muesli type food and was very messy with it but at least he wasn't sick. Only part of his problem but it was the tissue that made him sick so I can't believe they haven't had a look down there yet. Get her to another vet, no reason not to.
 
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Agree with the others. But on a weight point my lab has been 21.4kilos since he was 8 months old so i wouldn't worry about lack of weight gain but the chewing and continual vomiting would cause me concern. X ray needed at the very least.
 
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