Pancreatitis diet dogs
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For some reason, Cushingoid dogs are more prone to pancreatitis than normal dogs, so it will be important for you to keep your dog's diet very low in fat. You also want to keep the food low in fiber and high in potassium. Cushings medication makes it difficult for dogs to digest high fiber foods properly, and high potassium diets just give them more "oomph" when dealing with taking the necessary medications.
What medications does you vet have your dog on?
The cause can sometimes be unknown, but very often follows after eating any fatty food (Turkey skin for instance, or even chicken fat etc) Even a few table scraps CAN cause Pancreatitis attacks in susceptible dogs. And very often, when they have had one -unless they stay on a strict diet, they can get another attack in the future.
Has your vet excluded this as a possibility?
The treatment sounds harsh but is the best way to manage an attack.
I am not trying to make you feel bad, but if you feed her people food while she has pancreatitis you COULD kill her! Dogs are not made to digest human food as we prepare it for ourselves, and the fats in the foods that we eat are horribly bad for even healthy dogs, but they are a death sentence for a dog with pancreatitis. Please contact your vet as soon as you can and tell them what happened and let them take it from there.
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Her diet started out as Hills diet G/D (not K/D because of her pancreatitis). She has lost ~4.5 pounds since she was diagnosed. I have tried a homecooked diet specialized for kidney failure while also considering her pancreatitis. Still struggling to get her to eat.
Does anyone have any pointers on how to handle this?
The classic case in dogs is a large, sudden intake of fat. My vet always gets pancreatitis cases in following holidays when the dogs get too many extra fatty "treats" from well-meaning family members or guests. Summer months are always the worst when people are cooking things like brisket and ribs.
Pain control, digestive rest and hydration are very important, and usually antibiotics are needed as well.
They are really still not positive what, exactly, causes pancreatitis but dogs who are overweight and dogs who have a lot of human table food in their diets are the most prone because of the high fat content in these foods. Our food is not geared toward the way a dog's digestive system works, so it can be the most expensive, well cooked meal in the world, it's still not OK for a dog to eat in any quantity or for any length of time.
This has naturally persisted, along with classical symptoms of increased water intake. To address his pancreatitis, he was placed on a low fat prescription GI diet (Royal Canin), which I have maintained, but I supplement with canned food (fat < 5%, protein 5-10%) and home cooked food (chicken/sweet potato/pumpkin/green beans/mixed vegetables/rice/flaxseed meal).
If pancreatitis is part of your dogs issue, probiotics and full spectrum digestive enzymes would be very helpful to take the burden off your dogs pancreas and allow it to heal.
He spent 2 nights on IV. Has been discharged on a bland diet. It has happened 2 weeks ago. We feed him now a small portions 5 times a day (rice with ground chicken) plus Pepsid 1/2 tabs twice a day. He is very hungry all the time and today in a morning he vomited with blood again. Please help.
pancreatitis can be very dangerous. however many dogs get over it with diet management and without heroic measures. let's see what his follow up blood test show.
Some dogs will lick popsicles. Some dogs will drink pedialyte or gatorade. Most dogs will drink canned, diluted, beef or chicken broth or a weak broth made from bouillon cubes. You need to be careful about using these types of broth, because you don't want to give her too much salt and inadvertantly make the dehydration worse. Maybe just try a splash of the broth in her water bowl. Use the least amount that is enough to tempt her to drink.
I am not quite sure what that type of diet entails but I am willing to listen to all ideas and/or explainations for a diabetic do diet. Like I said earlier, her vet doesn't have any ideas other then the Low Residue rx foods because Sweety has a very sensitive stomach. Or the old stand by of boiled white meat only chicken and veggies such as broccoli or green beans, she hates green beans! I know that she is getting very bored with this food day in and day out but.....
He also has pancreatitis. I'm feeding him canned K/d or canned GI as recommended by the vet. My dog will not drink water, but will drink bone broth. Is there anything in bone broth that is not good for him? Is this ok that I give him bone broth instead of water. His BUN is 70 and his creatinine is really high too, so I think it is advanced. Does anyone have any holistic advice that could help him? Essential oils? Other foods?
It was odd that I had to pick her up since it was close to dinner time and the other 2 dogs were going nuts. I thought that the fall had perhaps hurt her but the dr didn't seem to think so.
She was ok earlier in the day, and symptoms mainly lethargy appeared quickly and she is extremely listless. She threw up a little mid-afternoon - an orange liquid , but she had raw pumpkin yesterday around 6 pm. So did other 2 dogs and they are ok.
When a dog is diagnosed with pancreatitis it is usually blamed on a high-fat diet but a diet that is high in fat will not cause pancreatitis in a dog with a healthy pancreas. A high-fat diet will, however, aggravate an already-diseased pancreas to the point where an attack of pancreatitis is the result.
Some dogs are genetically predisposed to pancreatic disease. Dogs with parathyroid conditions are predisposed, as are dogs who get too much calcium in their diets.
However, burger is a little fatty for a dog, and may contain onion which is TOXIC for dogs! So I would stop giving him that. Chicken and rice is ok, but is a fairly light diet. Perhaps you could start giving him a healthy-option dry dog food kibble, but not a 'light-diet' one, and add home-cooked (unseasoned) meat to this too. Don't give him fat though. Fat trimmings off meat are very likely to make him develop pancreatitis.
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