IBD Help/Advice
Discussion
Our nearly 3 year old rottie has just been diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowl Disease.
She started getting bad diarrhoea, and even though she is house trained was having accidents in the house, luckily we don't have carpet downstairs.
Took her off her normal food and gave her chicken and rice which stopped it but also 'bunged' her up.
Vet did blood and stool tests and everything came back clear. So he think it's IBD that she has.
He gave us some Fortifora sachets to try and told us to gradually bring put her back onto her normal food with the sachets and bran flakes.
Did this, however as soon as the normal food was introduced it happened again.
From a puppy she has always been feed Royal Cannin foods. Currently she is on Royal Cannin sensitive, but from the above we are going to have to change the food. To probably either Hills or Royal Cannin Gastrointestinal.
Id be interested to hear if any others have dogs that suffer the same problem and what you do/use to prevent it.
She started getting bad diarrhoea, and even though she is house trained was having accidents in the house, luckily we don't have carpet downstairs.
Took her off her normal food and gave her chicken and rice which stopped it but also 'bunged' her up.
Vet did blood and stool tests and everything came back clear. So he think it's IBD that she has.
He gave us some Fortifora sachets to try and told us to gradually bring put her back onto her normal food with the sachets and bran flakes.
Did this, however as soon as the normal food was introduced it happened again.
From a puppy she has always been feed Royal Cannin foods. Currently she is on Royal Cannin sensitive, but from the above we are going to have to change the food. To probably either Hills or Royal Cannin Gastrointestinal.
Id be interested to hear if any others have dogs that suffer the same problem and what you do/use to prevent it.
You would prob want to do an eg a white fish/trout potato (Inc sweet potato) for several weeks (6-8 weeks)to help guts settle inc fortiflora for a minimum of a month, then very very slowly introduce a gentle diet.
What too choose can be a minefield. Rcw gastro intestinal diet is very good but I think Rcw gastro low fat may be better.
It maybe worth looking at Lily's Kitchen range, they have a good clean diet range that should suit, organic and natural. They have a good helpline aswell.
http://www.royalcanin.ca/index.php/Veterinary-Prod...
http://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/homemade-fish-sweet-...
http://www.lilyskitchen.co.uk/?gclid=CNTl5djozcECF...
What too choose can be a minefield. Rcw gastro intestinal diet is very good but I think Rcw gastro low fat may be better.
It maybe worth looking at Lily's Kitchen range, they have a good clean diet range that should suit, organic and natural. They have a good helpline aswell.
http://www.royalcanin.ca/index.php/Veterinary-Prod...
http://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/homemade-fish-sweet-...
http://www.lilyskitchen.co.uk/?gclid=CNTl5djozcECF...
Edited by bexVN on Monday 27th October 21:47
Edited by bexVN on Monday 27th October 21:51
Edited by bexVN on Monday 27th October 21:53
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