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Re Gi Issues Persistent

by sam - March 8, 2010

Hi Steve. Thanks, as always, for your help. A couple more bits of info with questions. Yesterday, after Laurie posted that Timber's stools were finally normal, he had a bout of large-bowel diarrhea with mucous and blood. Honestly, you never really know what you are going to get from this guy. The initial stools from that very walk were picture perfect. At any rate, we are wondering if the raw food may be contributing. He has only been getting raw at night for the past few days. But how do you know whether to blame the food or the herb mixture? We certainly want to continue the raw if it's helping from an antiinflammatory effect, but are wondering if we should go back to cooking turkey and sweet potatoes until we get the herbs right. To complicate it further, this morning he vomited up a piece of a toy with scant blood that has been missing for 2 weeks. Most will try to blame the toy for most, but it's more of a bump in an already bumpy road. We will switch over to 100% San Ren Tang tonight. To summarize the questions: One, should we continue raw or cook? Two, should we continue western supportive care such as pepcid, sucralfate etc. Thanks again.

sam and laurie

ps I posted this as a reply to Laurie's initial post, and also as a new post here. For future, do I need to do this(cut and paste a new post), or do you have a way of seeing if we've posted further questions on an initial topic? Hope I'm not confusing you. Thanks!

by naturevet

March 8, 2010

Hi Sam,

For future reference, I'm able to tell when you've posted a reply to (i.e. updated) your previous post.

If the BZYQT has been in use for a substantial period without incident, then it's recent changes that might have provoked the loose stool. The raw diet or the foreign body are the most likely possibilities. If this is accurate, then maybe the first thing we should do is move back to a home-cooked diet. Still try to stay away from processed.

Once you've ascertained the results of the diet, then you're ready to make herbal changes. I'd make them one at a time, too, unless Timber still does terribly. Then simply try the SRT and stop the BZYQT. But if he stabilizes again on the BZYQT and home-cooked diet, then we probably want to start by just adding SRT into the mix. If he does even better, then we can wean off the BZYQT.

That's how I'd handle things if Timber was my dog. If he's still struggling, bring him to the course in Seattle and I can try to have a look during the break.

Good luck,

Steve

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