How do you care for a puking puppy?

Answer 1

That cant be goodNot much you can doAsk yourself a few questions along the lines of

• How long has this been going on?
• What color is the puke? Phlegm will probably be prominent if infection related.
• Sick or Ingested a Toxic Chemical?
• Whens the last time the pup ate?
• Frequency of Regurgitation, Urination and Diarrhea? All of these will cause Dehydration.
• How old is the animal and approx. weight?
• Extremely labored breathing(not triggered by gag reflex)or seemed blockage of air passage?

Those are the keys to helping your pup through the situation.

If it JUST started today, ok. Im not one to judge but the vet sounds like a good idea sometime soon if you already did not do that. Be careful if the dog was just born or still the size of a small or average sized stuffed animal. If the pup is still that little too frequent loss of water(Urination and Vomiting etc.) can quickly lead to dehydration and if that happens its not the best of situations. If you are not going to go to the vet. I would strongly advice you to make the pup gets lots of liquids. A small dog/pup will dehydrate quickly if your not careful. Expect to pull an all nighter caring for he/she, you being around will help to calm the nerves if you just keep stimulating the pup by touch and a very quiet-soft voice. Rub its ears, rubbing a dog's ears helps stimulate digestive processes and helps produce saliva which will keep the throat moisturized. Lack of fluid will cause a more puking if throat becomes dry and/or sore(Best to do first before trying to get the pup to eat/drink anything)

I cant emphasize how strongly you need to keep track of Foods and Water ingestion. Water Water Water Water. Dry Dog foods might work in absorbing some of that churning and rolling goo in the stomach. Soft foods are easier to digest but also easier to come up.

If the pup decides to urinate, watch for the color to be a dark-moderate colored yellow/orange. I hate to tell you but if it is a dark shade of orange or yellow, hold your nose over it until you can smell it, don't wanna put your nose in it..... If you can smell it and it has a abundant stench of Ammonia its a sure fire sign of Dehydration or Dehydration in the process. Still in the best interests of health to get water down as much as possible.

Light colored vomit(presence of phlegm). Phlegm is a very good thing to get out of the system, even if it was out by regurgitation. Phlegm just serves to gag(which no doubt induces a dry hurling episode), block the esophagus, and bronchial pathways(Tubes that lead to the lungs). Water here is also a very nice thing, dry hurling only serves to damage the esophagus(temporarily discomforting and can make puking extremely painful over time). Dry hurling can trigger the stomach to start producing larger amounts of acids because the pup already puked up what ever was in there. The stomach will seek to take the pH back to 1-2 in the shortest time possible, this will just hurt the pup by upchucking an extremely acidic fluid. If you are noticing any pain(usually extreme recoiling and muscle spasms) you will know when you see it. ALOT more convulsing and visible discomfort during a vomiting episode than normally. If this happens, find a base that he can drink, milk might upset the stomach but it will lower the Ph of any acidic substance lining the esophagus, mouth, and will reduce stomach discomfort if extreme pain is visible.

• White or Clear phlegm is the best to see if it comes up.
• Yellowish to mildly pale-green signals an infection.
• Light Greenish isn't the worst or the best to see, its just like Yellowish
• Greenish or Brownish if you see this check for rusty spots. This often should be considered serious infection, Pneumonia and/or internal bleeding.

If the pup has trouble breathing(wheezing and constant hacking or choking[choking can have many causes] not related to gag reflex). Stroke the back across the shoulder blades, stroking across the back above the chest cavity can help to stimulate him to push out any foreign substances. Usually phlegm produced as a immune response from the lungs to catch then expel foreign bodies->(anything not absorbed by the lungs, food, toys, small objects, dust etc...) and bacteria

As for the matter of helping the puking subside, there is not very much you can do yourself other than be there and be the center of comfort. Touch and calm soft reassuring voice are the most soothing, avoid moving suddenly as it will probably startle the pup.

Im am no vet by any means, but i do own 12 dogs...Each have had at least a pneumonia, upper respiratory infections or simply a compound illness.