Recommendations for dog with senstitive tum?

[3mum]

My poor dog is really prone to upset stomachs where he spends a couple of days vomiting until there is nothing left in his stomach. Lives on water for about a week then gradually recovers. It always reoccurs though. I have been to the vet who said it was a food allergy and prescribed hypoallergenic food. He still gets sick on this and he is so bored with it ppor thing. He has had probiotics in a clay mix which do seem to help and I was thinking of asking for these to be prescribed on a permanent basis. Has anyone had a dog with anything similar and, if so, did anything help? I was looking at slippery elm compound online as a possibility. He was really heroic overnight. Had obviously spent most of the night vomiting but had managed to keep it all on the doormat as he thought that was the most acceptable place to do it because I could take it outside (the rest of the floor was tiled so that would have been easier but he was doing his best)...

we have a staffie with colitis and we use slippery elm to manage it. i have no experience of how it works for vomiting though - we tend to have issues with the other end!

if you decide to try slippery elm then make sure you get the pure powder as sometimes it comes mixed with other things. i mix a good heaped teaspoon with boiling water to make a gloop and then mix this in with his food. this is a maintenence dose once daily and he has more if he is having a flare up (happens very rarely thankfully as the slippery elm along with nature's ahrvest food seems to keep it at bay)

sounds a good idea to see if he can have probiotics prescribed on an ongoing basis if they help. good luck - hope you find something that suits him.

My mums dog was like your dog after trying many different expensive dog foods and many trips to the vet and the same treatment as you describe the vet suggested chappie, they have never looked back and the dog hasn't had an upset tummy since starting it!

The only thing that didn't give my old lab d and v was Royal Canin. Looks a bit like breakfast cereal! You mix it with water.

Chappie definitely - my dog is on it at the moment

the vet also recommended Chappie for my mums dog when he was having bowel/stomach issues. She uses it alongside dry food.

I would want a second opinion. Has he always done this? Has he been scoped or x-rayed?

My mum uses it alongside dry food too, barking heads or something.

I've heard good things about Chappie for dogs with very sensitive tummys. I've no experience with vomiting, though, my dog tends to be bum problem fixated.

Yes to proper investigations.

have you tried raw? one of mine has bowels that react to the very worst (chappie) type foods and the very best kibbles (burns etc) and everything in between. on raw he has firm poo, great condition and no vomiting.

Chappie is excellent, Supadog Sensitive is lamb and rice based and wheat, gluten and dairy free, if you feed a dry food try soaking it with warm water but as always with vomiting or diarrhoea - little and often.

Have you tried 'Heals' a herbal mixture that you sprinkle over dog food and is good for a sensitive stomach. It's sold by a company called csjk9.com. It was recommended by the breeder we got our dog from.

Chappies was recommended by my vet too and the dog loves it

my dog used to have allergies (thankfully she eventually grew out of them, after about 6 years!) and we used to batch cook rice, and mix it in a big bowl with multi-vits (for dogs), cod liver oil and different protein, sometimes chicken that i'd cooked, sometimes egg (especially if the runs were constant), tinned pilchards in tomato juice, and some veg if I could get her to eat it (normally carrots/green beans).

I would feed her 3 times per day, smaller meals as it seemed to help her - hunger often made her sick.

after a few years we started adding small amounts (very small) of dog meats to the rice along with whatever else we mixed with it. and over a period of months increased the dog meats, then did the same with hypo-allergenic mixers until we can feed our dog (all hypo-allergenic) meat and mixers. Our dog wasn't truly allergic though, she was hyper-sensitive to changes in her food, and intolerant to a number of things.

Good luck, it is a nightmare to manage.