How do you treat your dog when they have diarrhea?

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My poor dog has a bit of a jippy belly and was up 3 times needing to go outside.

We've had him for 5 years and he's never really had diarrhea before. Sometimes soft stools but it resolves quickly.

I suspect it may be because we had given him a new treat he hadn't had before (sizzlers.. the bacon treat things).

Not sure what's best to do, whether to fast him for a day, go straight onto chicken and rice, just dry food..

What has worked for you and your dog?

(Obviously if it gets worse we will take him to the vets).

Probiotic paste was recommended to me and it works . I bought it in Pets at Home .

I do the chicken and rice for a day or so. I have also used the probiotic paste and used to keep a tube just in case as one dog always had a sensitive stomach when he was younger.

Definitely chicken and rice.

For anything up to three days, depending.

With our old dog, we did a day of scrambled egg only. Did the trick.

It will almost certainly be the new treat.
I'd keep him on his normal food and give him a supplement.
Loads available but a couple to try:
Stoolrite
Clay-based supplement (have a look at aniforte online)
Probiotic paste
Tree barks powder

If he is frequently soft, I'd try using Stoolrite everyday. Mine has suffered with her belly, our record was 9 times out in one night! She is ok now but her digestion system is something I've got to manage and I use all of the above regulary.
Actually, not the paste - that's for short term use - but she gets a good probiotic every day. Most of the are rubbish so if you do decide to use probiotics, choose carefully.

Chicken and rice with a sprinkle of tree barks powder from dorwest herbs

I tend to skip a meal and then carry on as normal, but light meals and no treats for a bit.

Only if the diarrhea lasted 3+ days or was accomapnied by other, worrying symptoms (eg excessive thirst, shivers, blood, or fatigue) would I consider doing anything differently, tbh.

Make sure he drinks a bit more today too so he doesn't get dehydrated.
Just add warm water to his food to make it a soup-like consistency.

If it's definitely just from a new treat then I just carry on feeding him as normal.

If it's a genuine stomach upset or bug then we still feed his normal foods but in smaller portions and put some ProKolin in his food.

Our vet doesn't recommend chicken and rice and just says to stick with their usual diet to avoid any potential further irritation.

Also worth bearing in mind that lots of dogs are allergic/intolerant to chicken and rice.

We were given ProKolin when our DDog had a bout of colitis as a pup (alongside antibiotics and a chicken/rice diet, he’d decided to drink a couple of laps of pond water that had dead hedgehog floating in it).

We keep ProKolin in our animal first aid kit, but only use it when we know what the probable cause of any diarrhoea, otherwise it’s vet first for diagnosis and then use as part of a treatment regime.

Works like a charm! But only if we have a good idea of why he has the squitters, be it a new treat, a snaffled apple from the tree or antibiotics. If there’s no probable cause, it’s vet first of course.

Just dry food, half rations. Plenty of water. Brown rice is good if it continues but mostly they sort themselves out in a day or two

Chicken and rice or our vet recommends Chappie (I know!) for when he’s got a dicky tummy.

Another vote for chicken and rice.

And bin the new treat. Don’t risk it happening again!

I’d go to the vet to get him checked out if it continues.

Our vet told us to feed her with her normal diet and use the paste. She said the starving and chicken and rice isn’t advised now for diarrhoea in dogs.

Chicken can actually upset stomachs more.

White fish, rice and a small amount of scrambled egg if needs must, but if it's from a new treat, just feed him his usual feed which doesn't upset his tummy with a bit of extra water in to help hydrate him. We have frozen cheap white fish in the freezer which we just poach if we need to if there is a poorly stomach in the house !!

Rice can ferment in the stomach causing more issues so should not be fed to dogs. Chicken, turkey, white fish are all okay depending on intolerances. I've fed scrambled egg in the past too. Tree barks powder, prokolin, pumpkin puree (100% pumpkin) can all help.

I’ve got one who is prone to a really dicky tummy (his insistence on eating rancid sheep shit doesn’t help).

What I’ve found is fasting him for 24 hours just to let it all calm down and any inflation go down, then a day literally just on rice and a tiny bit of tuna. Tiny meals every 90 minutes for two days Then slowly re introduce his normal food/bigger meals/ less frequently over another couple of days

Thanks everyone for your comments.

I work from home so have been keeping a very close eye on him.

I did give him a very, very small portion of chicken and rice this morning however based on these comments I'm now going to stick to just giving him small portions of his dried nuggets for the next few meals (he normally has dry nuggets mixed with wet food but I'm just going to give him dry so it's more plain).

Taking him for a walk soon so will see how he goes.

He's been snoozing as normal this morning, even did a waggy tail in his sleep so hoping he feels better soon and it's just the treat we'd given him.

Also going to buy some of the probiotic a lot of you have mentioned to keep in the cupboard

I do feed chicken and rice for 3/4 days and if I’ve got some plain white fish, I will also give that with rice. I’ve also got some tinned plain pumpkin which I add to meals as this does seem to really help.

ProKolin is fab to have in the house - I get it off Amazon and always make sure to have some around, it works for cats too!

Lordy if I gave my golden retriever chicken, he’d have worse diarrhoea than he started with. I just continue his dry food (Millie’s Wolfheart) - small portion and plenty of water. Although since he’s been on this food, he’s rarely had stomach upset apart from one incident with eating badger poo which I’d rather not talk about.

My poodle X got diarrhoea from certain dog treats and usually resolved quickly. Sorry if TMI! The 1 time it didn't improve, it got worse through the day, then turned a frothy/red/pink! Vet said what he thought it was (cant recall the name), but she had just chicken/rice/pre biotic for about a week. I 'think' she was on antibiotics too. Hopefully yours resolves quickly though.

Sizzlers do the same to my pooch.. straight through 😅 we don’t give him any shop bought treats due him being very sensitive to fatty foods but sizzlers affect him badly! (mum didn’t realise and she was minding him for us)
He’s settled now we’ve sussed his food and found one that’s gentle on his stomach. We also use pooch and mutt bionic biotic. He doesn’t enjoy his dry biscuits when we are restricting wet food etc but a sprinkle of that and he wolfs them down. Supposed to be helpful for digestion issues.
Hope pooch feels better soon!