babygirl62542 asked:
My boxer has ulcerative colitis and nothing is helping. we have been battling this for 4 months now. she has been to the vet (numerous vets); she had a colonosocopy and biopsy to be sure of what we are dealing with, and she has been prescribed various meds and nothing is helping. we’re running out of options (and money). she has had diarreah for months now and it’s gotten worse. she is litterally spilling liquid out of her bum. she has to go out about 7 times daily (twice in the middle of the night) and has lots of accidents in the house (i’m basically losing my mind) it’s not a potty training problem, she just can’t help it. she litterally explodes when she gets out the door, if she makes it out. she is losing so much weight i don’t know what to do. also, we live in an appartment, and our neighbors are probably not too happy with our “lawn ornaments” but it is impossible to pick up after her. i need help, does anyone else have this problem? has anyone delt with this before?
she was eating innova large breed puppy food, then we tried the eukanuba intestinal care diet, and now we’re trying nature’s recipe easily digestible nutrition puppy. none of them seemed to make a difference. it sounds like a lot of switching, but we gradually swap her food so we don’t upset her stomach too much.
oh, and her medicines she’s on right now are:
Prednisone, metronidazole, sulfasalazine, and imuran.
New Breakthrough for Colitis sufferers
My boxer has ulcerative colitis and nothing is helping. we have been battling this for 4 months now. she has been to the vet (numerous vets); she had a colonosocopy and biopsy to be sure of what we are dealing with, and she has been prescribed various meds and nothing is helping. we’re running out of options (and money). she has had diarreah for months now and it’s gotten worse. she is litterally spilling liquid out of her bum. she has to go out about 7 times daily (twice in the middle of the night) and has lots of accidents in the house (i’m basically losing my mind) it’s not a potty training problem, she just can’t help it. she litterally explodes when she gets out the door, if she makes it out. she is losing so much weight i don’t know what to do. also, we live in an appartment, and our neighbors are probably not too happy with our “lawn ornaments” but it is impossible to pick up after her. i need help, does anyone else have this problem? has anyone delt with this before?
she was eating innova large breed puppy food, then we tried the eukanuba intestinal care diet, and now we’re trying nature’s recipe easily digestible nutrition puppy. none of them seemed to make a difference. it sounds like a lot of switching, but we gradually swap her food so we don’t upset her stomach too much.
oh, and her medicines she’s on right now are:
Prednisone, metronidazole, sulfasalazine, and imuran.
New Breakthrough for Colitis sufferers
March 14th, 2010 5:29 am
CHANGE HER BLOODY FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 16th, 2010 8:56 pm
Oh dear, I’m so sorry for you and your poor dog! I would highly suggest a raw food diet. Kibble has a lot of strange ingredients and preservatives that can make dietary problems worse. There are a lot of misconceptions about raw diets, so if you have any questions, you can feel free to email me. I really hope you find something that works for you guys!
Add: I found this site that has a couple of links to colitis sites:
March 18th, 2010 6:48 pm
Try a high quality food like Orijen…Your vet doesn’t have any more suggestions? Hold in there, pet diseases are hard, don’t give up on her, she needs you!
March 18th, 2010 7:26 pm
We had a Cairn Terrier that would have this off and on – one time she ate pork and we have a huge mess.
Here is the diet that we used on her when she had stomach problems – or the squirts as I call it.
Cottage cheese
White rice
Hamburger
Cook the hamburger and then drain the fat – rinse it very good with hot water. Make up some white rice.
Take the cottage cheese, white rice and hamburger and mix a little together for your dogs meal – keep him on it for several days. (They love it) You can also give them pepto bismol – just give him a spoonful – I would try that after day one of feeding . Continue to give him this mixture until his stools firm up. This has worked for us on many occasions – we have a Scottish Terrier that has issues as well – worth the effort as the cleanup is much worse. Good luck – I am sure this will help.
Do not feed your pet anyting else during this time – no dog food just the mixture.
March 20th, 2010 5:59 pm
PLEASE email. My pug went through this and I was devastated. I also live in an apt. It was the biggest nightmare. I have some tips that I hope can help you. I heard colitis is common in Boxers.
I finally have my pugs situation under control.
March 23rd, 2010 7:02 am
colitis is untreatable. my old yorkie had colitis, we only got to keep him for 8 days cus of it. but, if yur dog is not born wit it like my dog, u can MAYBE fix it. just get a drie dog food, one for the digestive system. hope that this helps!
March 24th, 2010 4:57 pm
Sadly I had a German Shorthaired Pointer who suffered the same problem. The vet opened him up to do a biopsy and found he had a condition called esiophillic enteritis ( I don’t know if this spelling is correct ) I tried everything, including different dry foods, steriods, herbal treatments etc….. he lost so much weight I had to put a coat on him, incase people thought I was starving him. When he started losing control in the house, and was so distressed, as he was such a ‘clean’ dog, that, at the age of 2yrs I had to make a very hard decision. I was heartbroken…sorry I can’t be more positive. The only thing I didn’t try was Natural Probiotic Yoghurt, which I have just found out about recently, when one of my dogs had an upset tummy after eating something nasty.
March 24th, 2010 5:19 pm
I have two boxers and one of them almost died as a result of an intaceception which has the same symptoms that you have described. They could not figure out what the problem was until they opened him up as a last resort. They found an intaception which is when the intestine collapses like a telescope which causes a blockage and prevents the absorption of nutrients. The section of the intestine was removed and he recovered very quickly. He is still with us 8 years later but is prone to diarrhea when we go on walks. I hope this info helps you. I know how hard it is to watch them suffer. If you are in the LA area or the Chicago area I can recommend a really good vet.
March 28th, 2010 2:26 am
you don’t say what you are feeding her, but that does sound like she at the very least has an allergy to some part of what she’s eating.
I have a dog that is only capable of digesting white fish and oatmeal – which must be cooked every four days in a batch.
He can’t process any premade food.
Your best bet is to pick one or two ingredients he has had in the past that seem to be OK, if you know of any – just stay away from the more likely allergens – chicken, corn, beef,soy,wheat, and dairy – and try to get the pure ingredient.
Stay away from anything with fat or oil in it, as that is hard to digest.
I would try this dog on oatmeal first, see if that helps any – at least it’s easy to make and cheap. You gotta start somewhere. You can ultimately buy prescription vitamins to round it out, have your vet help you with that at they also have a recipe balancing service on there, for when you find what she can eat.
Also – is he already on probiotics? He needs to replace the gut bacteria that is clearly out of balance, and not growing properly. One dog I know with irritable bowle syndrome was only right after the day he buried his face in the bag of ‘organic fertilizer’! Now, they give him a special; paste that contains active cultures of just the right thing – but hey, he just really needed to be fertilized!
Glutamate is also an amino acid they often to have a deficiency of – ask your vet about supplementing that – it’s available in health food stores and places that specialize in vitamins.
It may also be necessary to put him on metronidazole, to limit the amount of ‘bad’ bacteria that has replaced the stuff she needs. My dog actually takes it daily. It is also known as flagyl.
THey can also give you an ulcer protectant to prevent damage from too much acid in her stomach.
Would the Gastro expert help you with this? It sounds like you badly need a consult, and to connect with the IBD dog lists (sorry, I don’t have that info for you) – you do badly need help, or your poor dog isn’t long for this world.
I feel terrible for you, as i know what you’re going through- hopefullly some of this will help…
March 29th, 2010 4:50 pm
Tony with the four thumbs down it right. Change the food. Go to meat/rice combo. Stay away from processed dog good, grains (especially corn), beef and dairy. Also use a run of albon and follow with probiotics, even yogurt would be good. You may have to go through a run of steroids to get it under control a bit.
You do understand that you have a much bigger problem than “lawn ornaments”. If you don’t get this under control, she is dead. I would be stuffing lamb and rice or chicken and rice down her daily mixed with plain yogurt and even some mashed bananas.
March 31st, 2010 8:52 am
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