1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:01:07,519 Speaker 1: You were listening to Petlifradio dot com. 2 00:00:36,039 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 2: And Hello and welcome to Let's Talk Pets with doctor 3 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,119 Jeff here on cut Life Radio. I am your host's 4 00:00:41,119 --> 00:00:44,240 the next half hour, doctor Jeff Werber. And normally I'm 5 00:00:44,359 --> 00:00:47,479 broadcasting live from Los Angeles, but here I am in 6 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,520 New York, so I'm on actually your time zone. It 7 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,039 is noon here in New York. It is a great 8 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:55,759 day ray summer. I'm actually broadcasting live from Birch Coffee, 9 00:00:55,759 --> 00:00:57,840 which happens to be my cousin's coffee shop. Not that 10 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,600 I'm promoting anything, but why not. Actually there are four 11 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,320 of them in the city and they're fantastic. 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So over the last couple of weeks, we've 31 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,879 been talking about skin problems and we were talking about 32 00:01:59,879 --> 00:02:05,040 how weird it is that dogs and cats that have allergies, 33 00:02:05,439 --> 00:02:09,240 even inhale the allergies and it's like we have hay fever, 34 00:02:09,599 --> 00:02:13,319 don't necessarily have respiratory signs like we do. They don't 35 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:15,520 get that scratchy throat, they don't sneeze, they don't get 36 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,360 their runny nose. What they do is they scratch, and 37 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,960 a lot of scratching and a lot of skin problems, 38 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,479 a lot of secondary infection. So what we need to 39 00:02:23,479 --> 00:02:25,840 do is help them. And one of the things I 40 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,360 brought up when we were talking about food allergies, and interestingly, 41 00:02:28,479 --> 00:02:32,039 even with food allergies, are dogs and cats scratch, they 42 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,159 get sores, they lose hair, they get scabs, they are 43 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,280 just so uncomfortable. Here's how to help some of the issues. 44 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,479 And what we're going to do is we're going to 45 00:02:40,479 --> 00:02:43,080 talk about some of the problems that we see when 46 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:47,719 we have our pets that are presenting with, say vomiting. 47 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,960 So let's talk about for the first time, let's talk 48 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,319 about vomiting at a problem. And the question is when 49 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,400 should you worry? When is vomiting a major concern? When 50 00:02:58,439 --> 00:03:01,199 is vomiting not such a bad concern? And what can 51 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,840 we do? How do we tell having a problem or 52 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,840 not having a problem. So here's some guidelines. The first 53 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,639 thing I like to do when I hear that pet 54 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,520 is having any kind of gastro intestinal upset, is I 55 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,919 like to and I'll ask the owner I'll see for myself, 56 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,719 is how does this pet look? Is this pet look 57 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,719 like he's sick? Because if he's not looking like he's sick, 58 00:03:19,879 --> 00:03:22,240 then I'm probably not going to worry that much. I'll 59 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,879 squat on to know how frequently is the pet vomiting 60 00:03:26,159 --> 00:03:28,879 and what's coming up? Is it just flynn, is it 61 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,840 bio or is it food? And if it's food, how 62 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:36,960 soon after eating is the pet vomiting. Is it happening immediately, 63 00:03:37,319 --> 00:03:39,960 is it happening several hours later? So these are all 64 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:41,439 the question of me asked. I'm also going to want 65 00:03:41,439 --> 00:03:43,879 to know if your pet vomits, does he go right 66 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:45,479 back to his food and ready to eat some more. 67 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:48,919 That's also very important. Obviously, a dog or cat who's 68 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,039 just ready to run back to the food boat and 69 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,560 eat again, obviously, isn't that sick? Because if they were, 70 00:03:54,719 --> 00:03:57,719 they'd be really feeling lousy and they'll see it, we 71 00:03:57,759 --> 00:04:02,000 would see it, and just how they behave after or 72 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,479 during the vomiting episode. So the first question I'm gonna 73 00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:07,759 ask is what brought on the vomiting? Did it come 74 00:04:07,759 --> 00:04:10,960 on sort of like an insidious slow onset, or did 75 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,400 it happen immediately after or soon after they got into 76 00:04:14,439 --> 00:04:17,519 something that you know they shouldn't have gotten into. I mean, 77 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:19,879 you know, a dog goes out and eats grass for 78 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,959 whatever reason. And it's a good question because we always ask, 79 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,720 you know, people always asking, and I even want to know. 80 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,199 Do dogs eat grass because they know it's going to 81 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,480 make them vomit? Do they eat grass because they like it? 82 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:36,560 It's soothing? It's sweet, it's moist, not realizing that twenty 83 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,959 minutes to a half hour later it might make them vomit. 84 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:42,040 So here's sort of my guideline. And believe me, nobody 85 00:04:42,079 --> 00:04:44,600 really knows the answer to this, but the thought is 86 00:04:44,639 --> 00:04:47,680 that there is a way to get a dog to 87 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,720 not eat something. We call it a version therapy. What 88 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:53,000 do we do? We put something in that which they 89 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,319 are eating to make them vomit immediately. Dogs don't really 90 00:04:56,319 --> 00:04:58,920 love to vomit. So what will happen is if they 91 00:04:58,959 --> 00:05:02,439 eat something that makes them vomit immediately, most likely they 92 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:06,319 will avoid that product again. So they become a verse. 93 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:09,160 They become and it's got an avoidance therapy. So we 94 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,720 develop an aversion to that product, that active ingredient, that food, 95 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:14,879 whatever it is they're eating, to want them to keep 96 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:18,839 them away from it. If, however, the vomiting episode happens 97 00:05:19,199 --> 00:05:23,199 long after twenty minutes half hour after the ingestion, if 98 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:26,600 they liked that which they ate, they will go after 99 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:29,600 it again even though it made some vomit. But it 100 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,879 makes some vomit, they don't. They don't make the connection anymore. 101 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,040 It happened too long ago, and I think that's what 102 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,600 it is with grass. I think most dogs eat grass 103 00:05:36,639 --> 00:05:40,720 don't vomit immediately. It's a delayed episode. But they like 104 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:43,920 the taste, they like the sweetness, they like the moisture. 105 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,560 It may even soothe their stomach initially, so they go 106 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:51,120 after it again and again. What they don't realize is that, yep, 107 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:53,639 twenty minutes thirty minutes later, they're going to vomit, and 108 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,160 therefore they will keep going after it. And I see 109 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,800 some dogs, even my own sometimes that will just literally 110 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,439 run when it gets outside. For whatever reason, they run 111 00:06:01,439 --> 00:06:03,839 after the grass and they start munching it as fast 112 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,040 as they can. So that's one issue that can cause vomiting. 113 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,240 Certainly getting a hold of overreading what they call e 114 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:14,040 gorging themselves, that can cause vomiting. Eating something bad, eating 115 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:17,279 something that's an irritant to gastric irritant can cause vomiting. 116 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,959 But so those are the direct causes of vomiting, and 117 00:06:19,959 --> 00:06:22,959 I am less concerned about those than I am the 118 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,759 vomiting that's coming from some other organ dysfunction. Now, usually 119 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,519 when we have a dog in liver failure or de 120 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:32,199 liver disease, if we have a dog with kidney disease 121 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,519 or kidney failure, they most likely will vomit because as 122 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,600 those enzymes elevate, we are going to see one of 123 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,199 the side effects, if you will, is going to be vomiting. 124 00:06:41,439 --> 00:06:44,639 So now we have a metabolic source of vomiting. It's 125 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,360 not just because they eat something that they weren't supposed 126 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,759 to eat. The episodes you're coming from the fact that 127 00:06:50,879 --> 00:06:54,399 they are in fact being poisoned, if you will, buy 128 00:06:54,879 --> 00:06:58,800 the build up of byproducts of enzymes because of the 129 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,399 organ dysfunction. So these are the dogs that are the 130 00:07:02,519 --> 00:07:05,639 vomiting episodes. Or first of all, they sometimes come on insidiously. 131 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,720 You can't necessarily link it to that which they may 132 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,480 or may not have eaten, because there's nothing in the 133 00:07:11,519 --> 00:07:15,000 history that would help you. And more importantly, they usually 134 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:18,240 don't And if you really think about, they haven't been 135 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:20,879 feeling good. They have not been feeling up to par. 136 00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:24,959 So these are the dogs that are totally may not 137 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:27,000 even want to eat. So you say to yourself, wait 138 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,199 a second, the dog's not eating, how are they vomiting? 139 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:31,759 What are they vomiting? Their vomiting bile, the vomiting phlam. 140 00:07:31,959 --> 00:07:34,000 If you in a case of a dog that maybe 141 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,199 ate something too fatty and has what's called pancreatitis. Pancreatitis 142 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,560 is an inflamed pancreas by definition that usually happens when 143 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,319 they eat really high fatty foods, and once that pancreas 144 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,240 becomes inflamed, they are very inclined to continue to vomit. 145 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,040 And the problem is these dogs are usually again you 146 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:56,480 never say never, you never say always, but these dogs 147 00:07:56,519 --> 00:08:00,600 are usually really sick. Their abdomens are very tender to 148 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:02,839 the touch, so you're better. An erring will want to 149 00:08:02,839 --> 00:08:05,639 absolutely see the dog, and if they feel the belly, 150 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:08,319 they actually palpate the abdomen, they'll see and they'll realize 151 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,720 a very tense, painful, tender abdomen. So this too can 152 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,720 be a problem. And these are the dogs that definitely 153 00:08:15,759 --> 00:08:18,720 are going to require some sort of follow up, some 154 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,360 sort of laboratory work, some sort of diagnostics to try 155 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:26,600 to evaluate why is this dog vomiting. Likewise, if a 156 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:29,519 dog who has a tender abdomen may be somewhat of 157 00:08:29,519 --> 00:08:33,480 a bloated appearance to the belly and is vomiting soon 158 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,639 after well not soon aftering, you use them when they 159 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,799 vomit immediately and they don't even go through the heaving episodes, 160 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,200 what we call the upchucking. They are mostly regurgitating. When 161 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,919 I see that with regularity, I'm going to think about 162 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,879 something that might be launched in the esophagus, which is 163 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:51,879 the tube that coming from the mouth into the stomach, 164 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,399 and that's called regurgitation. We don't have that heaving first. 165 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,559 It's just almost like it's like it's instant. They eat something, 166 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,039 they open their mouth, and out of that's regurgitation. That 167 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,240 usually means some sort of problem up in the store 168 00:09:04,279 --> 00:09:06,840 we called the cardiac portion of the stomach. I had 169 00:09:06,879 --> 00:09:09,919 one of these cases years ago when one of those 170 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,759 cheol of bones got lodged into the esophagus and this 171 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,399 dog actually had you could see it on the X ray. 172 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,480 Nothing can get past this thing. We had to go 173 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,919 in and we couldn't even remove the bone fragment, the 174 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,960 piece of bone that was stuck. So we ended up 175 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:26,840 having to do is push it into the stomach and 176 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:28,799 then we had to do surgery to get it out 177 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,279 of the stomach. Esophageal surgery is something you do not 178 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,879 ever want to try. You can lead to aesophageal constriction 179 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:38,440 and it could be something that's much much more dangerous, 180 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,279 where a stomach surgery is something that's much easier on 181 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,639 the pet. But when you have this dog that is 182 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,279 going to vomit several hours or even within an hour later, 183 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:48,919 now you have to think of the same thing. There 184 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,960 may be a blockage somewhere, but that blockage may be 185 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,080 lowered down in the gi tracked somewhere in the intestine. 186 00:09:56,279 --> 00:09:58,240 It's used even out of the stommach. So whatever it 187 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,080 was successfully got it to the stomach, successfully started passing 188 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,120 through the intestine, but then lodge somewhere else. In some 189 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:07,720 areas where the intestine gets very thin, one is called 190 00:10:07,759 --> 00:10:10,559 the ilio scout colic junction. So a lot of products 191 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,159 can get up to that point and then all of 192 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,000 a sudden get lodged after that point, And that too 193 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:19,759 presents a problem because then the question is diagnostically, where 194 00:10:19,759 --> 00:10:22,279 do we go from here? But of course that is 195 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:24,960 something that you may need to see your veterinary and 196 00:10:25,399 --> 00:10:28,039 once we get into the diagnosis, if we will, then 197 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,320 we can talk about the different possibilities of how to 198 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,159 help these things. So before we go on our break, 199 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,720 just to recap quickly, the important things are to determine 200 00:10:36,919 --> 00:10:39,279 how your dog is acting or your cat is acting. 201 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:42,799 And let's talk cats for a second, because cats vomit frequently, 202 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,919 and they often can vomit hairballs. But what's interesting about 203 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,240 a cat, and this is what people don't realize because 204 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,919 they'll call me, cat's acting fine, but it's vomiting. But 205 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:53,919 what's coming up is just some phlegm. I might bring 206 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,440 up the point of hairball and they no, no, no, can't 207 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,399 be hairballs because there was no I didn't see the hairball. 208 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,120 And to that, I say this that in a cat 209 00:11:01,279 --> 00:11:04,519 vomits hairballs, if you're lucky, and if the hairball was 210 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,840 in the stomach itself, then yes, that clump will come up, 211 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,080 but it looks kind of tubular, and that's because it 212 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,399 has to go back from the stomach into the esophagus, 213 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,840 and the esophagus sort of brings it up then causes 214 00:11:15,879 --> 00:11:19,720 a tube effect. But the key is that it doesn't 215 00:11:19,759 --> 00:11:24,279 necessarily have to have the appearance of a tube, and 216 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:25,720 it doesn't even have to have a hair in it 217 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,759 to be caused by hairballs. And I'll explain why in 218 00:11:29,919 --> 00:11:31,600 just a few minutes when we get back from our break. 219 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:34,120 Once again, you're listening to doctor Jeff Werber here at 220 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,440 ASSVTS with doctor Jeff here on pet Life Radio. And 221 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,240 when we come back, I want to hear from you. 222 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:39,919 Give me a call it eight seven seven three eight 223 00:11:40,039 --> 00:11:43,159 five eight eight eight two or log on to us 224 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:46,799 online at pet Life Radio. Click on ASVATS with doctor 225 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,759 Jeff and let's see if we can help you with 226 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,000 some of your questions about your pets. Lovely subject for vomiting. 227 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:59,440 We'll be right back. We'll be right back right after 228 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:00,200 these messages. 229 00:12:00,399 --> 00:12:01,039 Speaker 1: Stay tuned. 230 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:06,919 Speaker 2: This is my tired of itching face. Does your dog 231 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,519 suffer from persistent itching and scratching? Allergies and skin irritations 232 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:14,679 caused by environment including pollens, insects, especially fleas, food, and 233 00:12:14,759 --> 00:12:18,000 common household allergens are common problems and dogs. 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My job, of course, is to enhance 305 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:24,720 that relationship between you and your four legged furry friends. 306 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,879 So before the break, we were talking about the lovely 307 00:16:26,879 --> 00:16:29,320 subject because I mentioned a vomiting and when to worry. 308 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,399 When is vomiting something you can sit and wait on 309 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,879 for a couple of days. When is vomiting something that 310 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:37,320 you need to have a mediate attention. And before the break, 311 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,639 we were just touching on the subject of hair balls 312 00:16:39,679 --> 00:16:43,320 and cats and why is it that oftentimes a cat 313 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,759 can have hairball vomiting and you won't see hairball. And 314 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:49,200 here's the reason for that. When the actual clump of 315 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,279 the hair is in the stomach and the cat vomits, 316 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,120 most likely that crop of hair will come up. Think 317 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,399 of you as a sink with you know, the drain 318 00:16:56,519 --> 00:16:58,480 going below the sink in that sort of s curve. 319 00:16:58,799 --> 00:17:01,840 Once the play that is causing the sink to fill 320 00:17:01,919 --> 00:17:04,720 up makes it out of the sink itself, oftentimes it's 321 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,000 sitting right on that drain. It hasn't made it through yet, 322 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:09,799 so as the drain fills up whatever it was, it's 323 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:12,400 still in the sink. So if that sink overflows, the 324 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,559 possibility is that this is going to overflow as well. 325 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,160 Whereas what happens though when that plug makes it out 326 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,359 of the actual sink and now it's somewhere in the 327 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,359 piping below the sink is still filling up, it's still plugged, 328 00:17:24,519 --> 00:17:28,279 but when it empties and starts to overflow, the cause 329 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:30,079 of the block it is no longer there. It's already 330 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,519 somewhere under the sink or under the house. Even so, 331 00:17:32,559 --> 00:17:35,599 that's really basically what happens with hairballs. It is something 332 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,720 that once that hairball gets out of the stomach, it's 333 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,559 still going to cause the vomiting. It's still something we 334 00:17:39,599 --> 00:17:42,119 need to treat. But you won't see the hairball come up. 335 00:17:42,319 --> 00:17:44,119 How do you even know when it comes to a cat, 336 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,359 the same criteria. Cats that vomit hair balls, first of all, 337 00:17:47,519 --> 00:17:51,000 usually once they relieve themselves of that hairball, they're gonna 338 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,559 go straight to their food. They want to eat some more. 339 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,319 They don't seem to be affected one bit from the 340 00:17:55,319 --> 00:17:58,599 hairball itself. So in that way, there's really little to 341 00:17:58,599 --> 00:18:01,759 worry about. And of course he'll prevent them very simple 342 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,880 frequent brushing, a hair bol remedy, a hair bol food, 343 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:06,960 or a hair ball treat. I mean, there's so many 344 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:09,839 ways now to deliver air ball remedy for your cat 345 00:18:10,079 --> 00:18:13,119 thinks they love and something that should be done anyway, 346 00:18:13,319 --> 00:18:15,880 And don't kid yourself into thinking that if I have 347 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,720 a short hair cat, I don't need a hairball remedy. 348 00:18:17,839 --> 00:18:21,240 That's the only cat that can avoid having hairball remedy 349 00:18:21,279 --> 00:18:23,319 would probably be the stings, maybe some of the rexes, 350 00:18:23,319 --> 00:18:26,680 because rexes don't shed often, but mostly if you have 351 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,640 a cat, they groom themselves like crazy. And interestingly, the 352 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,960 more allergies they have, the more likely they're going to 353 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,720 groom themselves. The more hair they're going to ingest, the 354 00:18:35,799 --> 00:18:38,480 greater the likelihood of having a hair ball. So that's 355 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,519 a no brainer. Just do it because it's the smart 356 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:43,839 thing to do. So back to the dog. So if 357 00:18:43,839 --> 00:18:46,319 you have the dog, or i'd say the cat as well, 358 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:50,079 if they seem to vomit, but they're acting totally fine, 359 00:18:50,279 --> 00:18:52,799 they are happy, they're running, they'll eat if you offer 360 00:18:52,839 --> 00:18:54,839 them more food. A couple of things to think about. 361 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,079 Number one, don't give them more food right away, because, 362 00:18:58,519 --> 00:19:01,400 for whatever reason they vomited in the first place, that 363 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:05,079 stomach now is irritated. It's kind of like taking a 364 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,359 sack and ringing it out. It's just sore, it's irritated, 365 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,240 it's inflamed. So anything you put into that inflamed sack 366 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,960 is potentially going to come up again. So even something 367 00:19:16,039 --> 00:19:18,119 is benign is water. I can't tell you how many 368 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,319 times that I get a client their pet is vomiting 369 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,960 and they run to the water bowl and they gulp 370 00:19:24,039 --> 00:19:25,960 up water and they vomit again, and the owner feel 371 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,599 sorry because I'm like God, they're going to get dehigrated. 372 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,319 So what do I do? They give it more water, 373 00:19:29,519 --> 00:19:31,200 and they drink that water and they vomit again. Which 374 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,279 you don't want to do is put anything into a 375 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,440 stomach that has or has been vomiting. So what do 376 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:39,240 you do when the dog is acting fine? And it's 377 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:40,640 a great sign, by the way, and I tell clientsts 378 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,240 all the time, the fact that they want to drink 379 00:19:42,279 --> 00:19:44,319 water is fantastic. The fact that they want to eat 380 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,880 is great, But don't let them. So what to do 381 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,599 is this. You will give them maybe a couple of 382 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,119 ice cubes in their water bowl, so as the ice 383 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,359 cubes melt, if they want to get a little bit 384 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,240 of water, they can. Plus the cold water is kind 385 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,079 of soothing. But they can't gulp a lot at once 386 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,799 because we don't want them to. We want the stomach 387 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,599 to rest. When we have a pure gastritis from some 388 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,319 sort of irritant because something they ate. The last thing 389 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,759 we want to do is to have that stomach continue 390 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,839 the vomiting cycle. So we give them just some ice 391 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,559 scoops at first, let them suck on that. Twelve hours 392 00:20:17,599 --> 00:20:19,759 later or so they've gone to the rest of the day, 393 00:20:19,799 --> 00:20:22,480 they're acting fine, they're not vomiting anymore. Maybe that evening 394 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,240 you'll give them a quarter to a third of their 395 00:20:25,279 --> 00:20:27,680 regular meal if they eat that and keep that down, 396 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:29,519 and a few hours later you give them a little 397 00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:31,799 bit more. But you don't have to feel guilty. They 398 00:20:31,839 --> 00:20:34,279 can go easily a full day twenty four hours without eating, 399 00:20:34,319 --> 00:20:35,519 and we're not even to ask you to do that. 400 00:20:35,559 --> 00:20:38,000 We're just asking you to go maybe twelve to fifteen hours, 401 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,640 and when they do eat, give them a much smaller amount. 402 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,000 If they continually are holding that small amount down, then 403 00:20:44,039 --> 00:20:45,920 by the next day you probably can go for it 404 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:47,559 and give them the regular meal. But you want to 405 00:20:47,559 --> 00:20:49,880 watch them carefully, and of course you want to watch 406 00:20:50,039 --> 00:20:52,000 what they may orman out to be. Now, if you 407 00:20:52,039 --> 00:20:55,640 have a dog that continues to vomit but still is 408 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,920 acting okay, this is where I ask you to search 409 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:00,680 around your house and I'll ask do you have the 410 00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:02,240 kind of dog that will just pick things up and 411 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,720 eat them. You have kids around the house that maybe 412 00:21:04,799 --> 00:21:06,519 you know, are you missing a sow, a pair of 413 00:21:06,559 --> 00:21:08,279 bontor ware. I'm been telling you what comes out of 414 00:21:08,319 --> 00:21:11,559 these dogs sometimes blows my mind. I can't tell you 415 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,279 how many dogs love to go through hampers, so don't 416 00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:17,559 ask they do it. And I can't tell how many 417 00:21:17,559 --> 00:21:20,279 times I've pulled things like that out of a dog's intestine. 418 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,359 So what happens is they're still feeling good because the 419 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,240 stuff gets it starts passing through, but then all of 420 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:28,920 a sudden, it hits that spot where it just lodges. 421 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,119 And the problem is when we talk about the diagnostics 422 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,039 that a lot of these things won't show up on 423 00:21:35,079 --> 00:21:38,200 an extrack. Now they eat something that's metallic. I had 424 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,799 a dog ones that actually like to eat medallions and coins. 425 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,160 They were small enough to pass. That wasn't the problem. 426 00:21:44,319 --> 00:21:48,720 The problem was there's something called copper toxicity. They can 427 00:21:48,759 --> 00:21:52,880 get some lead toxicity. So what happens is they start 428 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,359 getting sick from say the copper, which it gets an anemia. 429 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,559 They start getting lethargic, their gums look pale, and you 430 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:02,599 take the and sure enough you see something there and 431 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,599 mom will saying, oh, yeah, I know that. You know 432 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,880 what I've seen him, you know, swallow a coin before 433 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,799 or he ate his dog tad. So you know, we'll 434 00:22:09,839 --> 00:22:11,680 never figure out why they do what they do, why 435 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,680 they eat what they eat. So obviously that was a 436 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,799 surgical disease. So to make the diagnosis, I mean, the 437 00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:18,920 first thought is X ray because if you have something 438 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,720 that's very dense, or even something that's not dense by itself, 439 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,160 but when it's clumped up you might see it. Then 440 00:22:25,319 --> 00:22:28,160 you could see something on an X ray or an ultrasound. 441 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,839 Then then you know, kind of depending on where it is, 442 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,720 what the options are. Now with ultrasound we can sort 443 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,079 of do a lot more than we used to as 444 00:22:35,079 --> 00:22:37,640 far as diagnostically when we don't know what's going on, 445 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,279 but we assume a blockage. We can sometimes assume a 446 00:22:40,319 --> 00:22:43,319 blockage because there's a certain pattern we call it a 447 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:47,000 gas pattern on X ray that usually indicates it somewhere 448 00:22:47,039 --> 00:22:49,160 along the line everything somebody to do a dead stop. 449 00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:51,480 And when that happens, then too we have to work 450 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,839 to relieve that. We can do a dye study. It's 451 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:56,880 we call it a barium study, and with barium, what 452 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,039 we do is we have to beingest a dye that 453 00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:01,160 shows up on X ray. We kind of watch it 454 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,240 follow through the intestinal track until it all of a 455 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,680 sudden comes to a dead stop. And at that point 456 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,279 you can clearly see, uh oh, something's there. Now. If 457 00:23:09,319 --> 00:23:11,599 we're lucky and something's in the stomach, it can be 458 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,079 retrieved via a scope. And sometimes we're not so lucky, 459 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,279 and if it has to go in your dog, your veterinarian, 460 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,119 we'll have to go in surgically to remove it. If 461 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,759 we have a thing pancreatitis, so let's assume that that's 462 00:23:24,759 --> 00:23:27,720 assuming we have a blockage or something physical it's causing 463 00:23:27,759 --> 00:23:31,200 the vomit. When, as an ntored earlier, the source of 464 00:23:31,279 --> 00:23:34,039 vomiting is meta power. It's because of kidney diseases, it's 465 00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:36,920 a liver disease, it's because of pancreatitis. Of course, then 466 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,200 the treatment plant is totally different. This often requires hospitalization diagnostics, 467 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,279 of course, and that is maybe via blood test, ultrasound, 468 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,799 and or X rays. Sometimes we have to show what 469 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,480 it's not just as easily as we have to show 470 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,920 what it is. So a full battery test is often 471 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,599 in order, especially if the dog is adr and doing right, 472 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,240 is acting lethartic, is acting sick, and then so we 473 00:23:57,319 --> 00:24:00,599 go ahead and do our diagnostics and go from there. 474 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,720 These animals are going to be hospitalized, These animals are 475 00:24:03,799 --> 00:24:07,200 going to need IV fluids, and we have to try 476 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:10,839 to treat the least the underlying disease. So as you 477 00:24:10,839 --> 00:24:13,799 can see, vomiting can range anywhere from a simple thing 478 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,839 that you can call your veterinarian, get the right questions answered, 479 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,039 something you can give it a few days, treat at home, 480 00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:21,839 and your best gauge is just how your pet is acting, 481 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,960 ranging all the way to something where there's a clear 482 00:24:26,039 --> 00:24:28,440 history of having ingested something which is going to require 483 00:24:28,559 --> 00:24:31,079 most likely some sort of intervention, whether it's going to 484 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,519 be through an endoscopy or surgery, or there is seems 485 00:24:34,519 --> 00:24:36,279 to be nothing they got a hold of, but they're 486 00:24:36,319 --> 00:24:39,920 really acting sick, they're tender abdomen, they're painful, in which 487 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:44,039 case we're looking at complete diagnostic workup and hospitalization to 488 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,279 treat the underlying disease. So love to hear from you 489 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,319 or at a time. A half hour goes fast. So 490 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,759 once again, if you have more you'd like to ask 491 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:55,319 about the subject, go ahead and reach me on my 492 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,319 email at DRGF at petlife Radio dot com and or 493 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,000 next week we're going to talk about lifting again. Their 494 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,920 range is from a simple lift that came on suddenly, 495 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,000 nothing to worry about giving a few days to possibly 496 00:25:10,319 --> 00:25:15,079 needing some sort of a traumatic intervention, surgery, limb amputation 497 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,920 and you name it depending on the cause. So we're 498 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,759 going to talk about that. So get ready. 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