Food Allergies Treatment

Question by sgoodrich2: My english bulldog puppy is having really loose stools and gas w/Canidae and Nutro. What others are good?
We have tried the plain yogurt and it made it worse. The only thing that seemed to help was boiled hamburger and rice. The vets are stumped and just want our $. We’ve had him only 2 weeks and he’s been seen twice for this. I think he may have wheat allergies from the nutro and the I have no clue about the Canidae lamb and rice but nothing seems to be working. Anyone who’s been through this please help.

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Answer by eastoak
try just rice for a bit. my dog can’t have even a little bit of meat because he gets the runs right away.

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Question by Aracaini: 8 month old puppy with diarrhoea?
Kai (puppy) woke me up in the night and currently now because he needed the loo, both times he had diarrhoea.He seems lively enough in himself, hes already barking XD I know that I must starve him for 24 hr then feed him bits of rice, gradually mixing with normal dog food. Is there anything I can give him in the meantime to ease the diarrhoea, our vet doesn’t open till 8am its 7am here. I have read that you can give a puppy imodium but I’m not sure how many and if it has to be the tablet form, as I only have imodium instants on hand.

Also this has happened before, I own a holiday home in an area where the water is classed as hard yet where I live its classed as soft, could this be affecting him? We went yesterday, if so I will have to keep some bottled water there for him

Heres some more info on Kai. He’s a 8 month and 3 week old rough collie puppy weight last time at the vets at 13.5kg. Known allergies are shellfish, any form of lamb meat. Not sure how helpful the last part is. He’s a digger and likes chewing on sticks. He’s currently on BETA puppy food, but lately we have been mixing it with butchers canned wet food, so thats another thing that might have to stop

Anyway sorry for typing so much, any help will be appreciated, thankyou.
Hi, thanx for your reply, we did ask pur vet about changing the puppy food over they said it was ok as long as we did it a bit at a time, we’ve been doing it for about 5 days now

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Answer by Christina
I would just give him just hard solid food only, and also stick to one food do NOT keep changing foods its really bad for them, stick to a solid food and dont ever change it, i give my dog beneful, when i used to give her canned wet food she used to get really sick so now its just solid food and shes fine, she could just be sick and you really should just wait it out, but just start giving your dog a solid food and stick to that for the rest of the dogs life or it could die!…

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The new puppies started weaning a week ago. I got them the ‘Chicken Soup for the Puppy Lover’s Soul’. It’s one of the best, non-garbage, foods that I can afford on a regular basis.
All has been well except one thing. About three days ago (four days after beginning weaning) one of the puppies has started throwing up the milk every time she feeds from her mother. I watched him like a hawk, and I’ve been keeping regular weight-watching. He eats his food just fine. He drinks his water just fine.
He’s not puking up his food at all not even after he feeds. It’s pure milk that comes out.
I’m wondering if it’s some kind of strange developed allergy he’s got or if that’s even possible in a canine. Should I just go ahead and try to stop him from feeding on her since he’s eating and not throwing up food or water? If I do stop letting him feed on her what sort of supplement, if any, should I give him? He’s playing and vibrant as the rest so it looks like his nutritional needs are being met. He’s probably absorbing at least a tiny bit of milk before throwing up the rest. Maybe it’s just that this particular puppy doesn’t need the extra vitamins so it’s rejecting it (like I do when I take too much iron).
Genetics won’t help me here as these are mutt puppies from my rescue that came pregnant. The previous ‘owner’ didn’t know she was pregnant when we rescued her, and couldn’t begin to fathom what sort of dog is the father. I know I’ll end up calling the vet tomorrow to make sure, but it’s late and I can’t sleep so if I can get feedback, why not try, eh?