What Is The Best Thing To Feed A Dog Diagnosed With Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
Dec.18, 2009 in
Dog
What is optimal to feed a dog with inflammatory bowel disease?
Information:
Predisone is given twice a day
Refuses standard solid dog food
Refuses turkey
Refuses rice
Just started eating today after two weeks
Current diet: Chicken
I feel that chicken may not be the best option to feed a dog with this disease. If there are any other options that you believe that my dog will consume, then let me know. Thank you.
December 18th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
hi wine, my basset was dx w/colitis a few yrs ago. funny thing is, I have Crohn’s disease, a type of IBD like UC.
I would give him some chicken broth, steamed rice, freeze some gatoraid in cubes and give it to him if he was throwing up. a few cubes at a time until you are sure he can keep it down. They now have G2 which has less sugar. Boiled turkey, boiled ground beef or boiled chicken can be given in small amts. The vet can give you some anti nausea medication for him too.
Baby food in the form of meat or chicken flavor is ok too. I would ask the vet for booklets on it or an instruction sheet on how to treat flares and what to feed your dog. My vet gave me tons of info to read along with pain medication and a muscle relaxer if he had spasms.
Yes, it is hard to watch your 4 legged child w/fur suffer. I can totally relate to what he is going through. Just be sure to call the vet if anything unusual happens. That is what you pay them for.
Your dog will be in my prayers.
December 18th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Feed him some crackers, just dry crackers, he’ll eat them.