Motion Sickness and weak stomach
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| Have you had a complete medical workup on this pup? There are so many things that cause vomiting........food allergies to some very serious health issues. Since it is a new dog to you, you have no medical history.....it's time to start one. Yes, it will be expensive but I'd start with a complete blood panel, fecal exam (looking for parasites), urine test. Also if the dog has lived where certain diseases and parasites exist, have those checked: Lyme, heartworm, Erlichia, etc. Hopefully this is a food allergy and by eliminating the usual suspects, you can get this under control. Most of mine have been very intolerant of soy products, one didn't do corn at all, one is wheat intolerant. Start by only feeding cooked ground beef and rice......brown if possible. Hopefully the tummy will settle down and you can start incorporating new foods.......chicken, fish, and other grains until you zero in on the culprit. Then find a food that doesn't contain the offender. I have have a tender tummy dog......MO, the wheat intolerant dog. She also gets a Pepcid AC once a day. She used to wake me up every night so she could go outside and vomit.....if she failed to wake me, I found the mess in the a.m. Since Pepcid, 90% less nightime visits. (she also needs a bedtime snack......empty tummies made her problem worse) Don't ask how long it took us to find out her idiosyncrasy. |
| Thank you for your reply. I agree we need to bring him in for an exam and allergy test. He had a fecal exam and that was fine, but it may be something else. I will also have to try a pepcid as well as new food. Very good recommendations. Thanks again! |
A full check up definately.  Also does your OES guzzle water, sometimes that refluxes and hence chuck. Also after feeding, no water before food, rest after for 15 minutes then allowed to drink. After exercise or charging around same thing too, dont feed straight away and dont let them guzzle water straight after or guaranteed to chuck, let them cool down for awhile before either eating or drinking. Also a preventative measure for Bloat happening. With the car sickness, ginger helps, you can actually get them in tablet form or even by just giving a Ginger snap bikkie, about 20 mins before you travel. Being a rescue might not be use too the movement of a car, so go back to basics there as well, short trips around the block then build on further distances. No fun with car sickies, also essential oils misted around the car helps there too, peppermint and lavendar are good ones to use and makes the car smell great as well   With the food, start back at basics as well with what sheepieboss said then build on from there with slow introductions to new foods introduced and always only one thing at a time. Best wishes I am sure all will be well, just a matter of working out over time what agrees with your new rescue. |
Winston does like to eat and drink and then eat again. I will make sure to monitor his water when eating. I am very careful he doesn't run after eating to prevent bloat. But I will also start with small trips in the car. He is such a great dog and loves to be with us but he needs to get adjusted slowly. Thank you for all your recommendations! Winston will be so appreciative when he is feeling better  |
| Ryleigh is a rescue as well. We have had her for about 1 1/2 months now and she still gets car sick. I tried the ginger but that just gave her loose stool so I found at Petsmart these tablets called Pets-Ease. They help settle and calm their tummys. We went on a 5 hour car drive and worked great. No sickness. But she doesnt vomit just from running and moving to fast, which she does all day! I would think a vet check is best thing to do, he may have some kind of blockage or something stuck in his intestine that is causing problems. If hes a rescue there is no telling what he may have eaten just to survive. Good luck and keep us posted please. |
| I would say a vet check is in order first off. In addition to that, something that might help is keeping him confined when traveling, in something such as a crate. I had one girl that had motion sickness & outgrew it after about the age of 6 months. I have a boy whom I had to change his riding position in the van. He used to ride in the crate in the rear as I felt the location offered him a bit more room. He did well there for a long time & then all of a sudden one day he had a problem with it. I moved him to a crate right behind the driver's seat & he did fine immediately. The rear crate was located over the rear wheels. The front crate is not located over any wheels. So I have to wonder if the sound & vibration of the wheels had something to do with it. |
| There's also a chance he has a problem with his balance center, inner ear. How does he walk? Does he stumble? Does he run, play, etc and generally be a happy puppy except for this tummy problem. That would be a good sign. |
| Poor pup. Everyone here has given you great advice. We are so smart on this forum! When Oscar came to us at 10 weeks of age, he had non-stop diarrhea and he would vomit up liquids. His beard constantly smelled of stomach acid. Turns out, after months of testing, we discovered that Oscar has Inflammatory Bowel Disease of the small intestine. Way before we had the final diagnosis, we did a couple of things to minimize his discomfort. First, we limited the amount of water he could have at any given time. (He would gulp and gulp and gulp.....) We started putting 12 - 15 oz at a time in his bowl, refilling when empty, and do so to this day. Second, we immediately started him on 40 mg of Pepcid AC (famotidine) per day to cut down on the stomach acid. Lastly, we started feeding him smaller amounts more frequently throughout the day. (He now gets fed four times per day.) These things took care of the tummy end, and it wasn't until our IBD diagnosis that we were able to resolve the diarrhea. Some of the tests they ran included a maldigestion panel (blood work), and the dog version of an upper GI. For the upper GI, they kept him for a few hours, and fed him small amounts of food laced with barium. Throughout the day, they took x-rays to see how the food traveled through his system. The GI test ruled out a problem with his pyloric valve, as well as with his esophagus. Then we did the endoscopy which is where we discovered the IBD. Hopefully, you won't have to take things to this level. You might want to talk to your vet about Pepcid AC, especially if you are constantly smelling stomach acid. Dogs are supposed to be more acidic than humans, as they need that acid to digest all the protein they eat. However, if other things are out of balance, there might be too much acid in his system. Please keep us posted on how your boy is doing. Laurie and Oscar |
| Ginger snaps. They work wonders. I agree a full medical work up is necessary since he is new to you. But I've found ginger snaps to help with travelling. We also use Pepcid Ac alot to coat the tummy...And watch his water intake immediately after exercise. If he drinks too quickly, he will vomit up the water. By the way...vomiting has a distinct sound of retching before hand. Sorry to be so graphic. Vomitting is clearly vomitting and sounds horrible. However, after drinking water too quickly or if something is caught in the throat. etc. they may "vomit" but it will be a quick burp up type of thing. No real retching. A very different syptom. This is not consdiered vomitting. If the vet asks you want to be sure you describe it excactly...even if its "gross" to do so  |
| Yup, as Ashley says. Regurgitating requires no effort... it just suddenly comes up without warning. Vomiting requires effort to bring up the stomach contents... you'll often hear the dog in the process of bringing it up and you might even have time to guide the dog off the bed or over to tile rather than carpet.  My vet shared something interesting... dogs can choose to vomit if something's sitting a little funny in their stomach. We were trying to balance out Kobuck's food and water... he would over-drink and then regurgitate in the morning. He had an interesting approach too... he'd immediately go into a "shake off" when he was surprised by the fluid coming up. You can imagine the distribution of stomach contents! We've figured out how to balance things and his infatuation with water has subsided so he's no longer regurgitating.  Panda on the other hand has a vomiting problem if she has an empty stomach... with blood. She's now getting 3 meals a day and may require another endoscopy to find the cause or rule out anything serious. Blood work is fine... maybe an ulcer or simply a sensitive stomach. Ok... to much info as usual  |
Quote: you'll often hear the dog in the process of bringing it up and you might even have time to guide the dog off the bed or over to tile rather than carpet. Yeah right.............what planet do you live on Jaci? Mine make a move TO the carpet since the results don't splatter as they do on a hard surface. Few sounds wake me up faster from a deep sleep.......than a dog doing the "yurka-yurkas." |
SheepieBoss wrote: Quote: you'll often hear the dog in the process of bringing it up and you might even have time to guide the dog off the bed or over to tile rather than carpet. Yeah right.............what planet do you live on Jaci? Mine make a move TO the carpet since the results don't splatter as they do on a hard surface. Few sounds wake me up faster from a deep sleep.......than a dog doing the "yurka-yurkas." Yep and cats are the same! We have all polished boards and tile and both dogs and the cat all go to the two rugs to barf on.  I can understand them not wanting splatters on their legs but mopping up chuck with pet hair mixed in from the rugs is not pleasant.  |
Quote: Yeah right.............what planet do you live on Jaci? Mine make a move TO the carpet since the results don't splatter as they do on a hard surface. This will impress you for sure Susan... there have even been times when I've been quick enough to grab a sheet of paper off my work desk to put on the floor in front of the hurling dog so it catches it. (I hate having to try to get dog vomit from between hardwood floor slats!!)Quote: Few sounds wake me up faster from a deep sleep.......than a dog doing the "yurka-yurkas." That is soooo true. The first sound of a dog heaving and I'm bolt up right and out of bed. |
Quote: This will impress you for sure Susan... there have even been times when I've been quick enough to grab a sheet of paper off my work desk to put on the floor in front of the hurling dog so it catches it. (I hate having to try to get dog vomit from between hardwood floor slats!!) I don't know which: or |
| Not so impressive though when you do it with a paper you needed for work.  |
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