Diarrhea in Dogs

If your dog has diarrhea and other symptoms show up like vomiting, get in touch immediately with your veterinarian. Diarrhea and vomiting can indicate that the dog has a disorder or disease like food poisoning, infectious enteritis or others (which your veterinarian will let you in on). When dog has difficulty defecating its normal to sometimes see a little blood in its feces, but if the color of the blood is very dark it might mean that the dog has a lesion in its intestines; these are sometimes caused by ulcers or tumors. In these cases its very important the dog gets taken to the veterinarian. Other symptoms like fatigue or diarrhea that has gone away and then shows up again after a few days must be told to the veterinarian as well. If the dog has a very bad case of diarrhea, you must replace the water, salt and glucose the dog has lost. Don't by any means feed the dog during the next twelve hours and you will need to give the dog saline to replace the water it has lost, this can be given to the dog by using a syringe or through an iv drip. There are also some powdery substances that your veterinarian can prescribe that just need to be mixed with fresh water that you can feed your dog by using a syringe. It's also possible that your veterinarian will prescribe antibiotics or anti-inflammatory medicines etc. Chronic diarrhea however, is something that is a lot more difficult to diagnose and treat. In these cases a feces analysis is necessary as well as x rays. It's also possible that the veterinarian will want to check the intestinal walls of the dog and take samples of this. In some cases it will be necessary for the dog to stay in the veterinary clinic for a few days so that the veterinarian can do some tests and give the dog the necessary treatment.