What if your dog is throwing up bile?

Answer 1

Take it to a licensed vet immediately, as there could be some issues with the dog's digestive system that need to be checked out by the vet.

Hi, Yes always consult a vet first, but vets do not seem to know everything so consider my experience.

I rescued a very underweight GSD who upon getting her home constantly had bright orange bile coming out of both ends every night. It seemed to happen mostly in the early hours of the morning and occasionally throughout the day. As she slept on the side of my bed, I decided to stay awake and observe her. About 3 in the morning I heard a slurping noise and observed that she was in fact drinking her own pee straight from her bits.

About an hour later again she was puking and messing the bright orange bile out of her system.

I concluded (as a trainer) that this dog had more than one endemic problems. The main one been that she had been brutally housetrained (not by me) to such an extent that she was afraid to pee on the floor and was drinking her own pee. This practice had seriously affected her stomach lining and probably gave her ulcers (was subsequently vets conclusion) and acute acid reflux due to extremely bad nerves (my conclusion).

The solution would come in several forms.

1) I did not show any form of emotion or annoyance at the mess on the floor the next morning and actually stroked her with sympathetic assuring words that everything was going to be ok. (do this every time)

2) From that day on I devised a much more gentle, calm and quiet regime around her.

3) I took her water away from her at 6pm and took her for her final walk at 11pm. (this reduced the amount of pee over night).

4) The aluminum based medicine from the vets only worked while she was taking it, when it ran out the condition returned. I decided to re-educate her stomach by putting her on a diet of one tea cup of plain steamed rice every two hours. This acted like a poultice on her stomach and the condition greatly improved. I kept this regime up for the next ten days. On the eleventh day I introduced a small amount of boiled chicken for the next week and then added small amounts of vegetables and other foods over the subsequent months.

This solved the problem of the ulcers.

5) At the same time I had to deal with the acute acid reflux. I put her on two tablets which she now has every day and will do so for the rest of her life.

The first is vitamin B Complex one a day to address the problem of her nervous (acid reflux) disposition and the second is one dose of Zenprol which contains 10mg omeprazol and is designed to regulate the formation of bile acid at 10pm, an equivalent dose of Zantac is just as good.

(Vets cannot make money out of self medication and do not approve of it, but it works)

Now that the condition is totally under control she can eat just about anything I care to give her with no adverse effects.

It is recommended that you do not feed your dog once a day; the time period between feeds is just too long and will lead to this problem. I recommend separating your dogs food into three portions given every six hour during the day, 8am, 2pm and 8pm.

Regarding the water situation, now my dog has water down all the time and she has learnt to regulate herself.

PROBLEM SOLVED

She was 19 kilos at 13 months of age when I rescued her and very sickly and depressed. Now she is a highly confident and very active and lively four year old weighing 39 kilo and in peak health and condition.

You must remember, her condition is not cured, it is managed very well and if that management stopped for whatever reason, she would deteriorate very quickly.

Answer 2

If your dog has been vomiting bile, he could be on an advanced stage of kidney failure. \have him immediately checked by your vet.