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Canine
Gastroenteritis
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Treating
Gastroenteritis
Most cases of gastropenteritis, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, will clear up in two days. This is because the most common cause of the problem is overloading the gut either with too much food or with material that causes gut irritiation, for example, eating a rotten rabbit or gorging on horse droppings.
Unfortunately, the first signs of potentially fata gastroenteric disease, such as parvovirus, can be similar to gut overload. Dogs may have a painful abdomen, vomit, pass loose faeces, sometimes wioth blood and can become depressed.
If you know that it is food overload, stare the dog for 24 hours and then feed it small meals of chicken and rice or pasta and potato for a few days. If the dog vomits re[peatedly or is unwilling to move, take it to the vet, as fluid loss and gut toxins can cause severe illness.
Harvey Caruthers
Most cases of gastropenteritis, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, will clear up in two days. This is because the most common cause of the problem is overloading the gut either with too much food or with material that causes gut irritiation, for example, eating a rotten rabbit or gorging on horse droppings.
Unfortunately, the first signs of potentially fata gastroenteric disease, such as parvovirus, can be similar to gut overload. Dogs may have a painful abdomen, vomit, pass loose faeces, sometimes wioth blood and can become depressed.
If you know that it is food overload, stare the dog for 24 hours and then feed it small meals of chicken and rice or pasta and potato for a few days. If the dog vomits re[peatedly or is unwilling to move, take it to the vet, as fluid loss and gut toxins can cause severe illness.
Harvey Caruthers
reprinted with kind permission from
Alastair Balmain
Deputy Editor:Shooting Times & Country Magazine
Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street SE1 0SU
Tel: 020 3148 4750
Deputy Editor:Shooting Times & Country Magazine
Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street SE1 0SU
Tel: 020 3148 4750