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My dog is throwing up water after drinking more than just a few gulps at a time. She does not throw up food unless it is what's in her stomach after drinking water as I mentioned previously. We've tried food bowls level with her. We've tried all temperatures of water. We've tried not running before and after. We have no idea why this is happening. Our vet can't figure it out. And it is an acute issue. She is almost a year old and she hasn't done this before last week. She is also still pooping and peeing normally, and there is no blood in vomit or stool. We are worried and no one can help us!!

Submitted: 110 days and 23 hours ago.
Category: Dog
Value: $15
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Pet's Sex: Female
Pet's Age: <1

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X-rays have shown nothing. Food and water have been raised to chair height. We've tried everything that we can think of. Blood work was essentially normal. Temp only 1degree elevated.

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You might try slowing down her drinking by adding a couple big clean rocks to the water bowl so she has to lick slowly. Or fill the bowl with icecubes and let her drink the melting water. You can also add extra water to her dog food and see if she can hold that down so she gets the fluids she needs.

It is possible, with her age dog, that she has swallowed a non food item that isn't passing through her system and doesn't show well on x-ray and is 'sloshing' around when she drinks triggering the vomiting. With my dog it was a latex squeaky toy swallowed whole and it would 'bang around' when her stomach was empty or when she drank a lot of water at once making stomach contents really liquid. Once the toy was out the problem was resolved.

If you haven't tried a barium x-ray to check how her swallowing goes and to see if anything shows up that regular x-ray misses that might be an option as might be using an ultrasound to check the same areas.

This could be a problem starting with megaesophagus which you can read about here

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/megaesophagus.html

again some more testing might show you if that is the issue.

If your vet is stumped you might ask for a referral to a small animal internal medicine specialist as those see more of the tricky cases than a general vet might.

Hope this helps you!

 

 

 

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Expert: NancyH
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Answered: 8/4/2009

Dog Expert:Rescue, Train,Breed,Care

30+ yrs dog home vet care & nursing, rescue, behavior&training, responsible show breeding, genetics

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