Dachshund

[pkbooks]

We have a year old  mini dachshund that has been on consistent diet of Nutro Max dry food, never is fed any table scraps.  About three weeks ago she started vomiting undigest food, numerous test were done, blood, xrays, surgery and inflammatory bowel disease was the diagnosis.  She has been on amoxicillin and flagyl, which seemed to be helping but started up with vomiting again.  She does have a nasty habit of eating feces, could this be a cause of the IBS?  Is there a good supplement to help with digestion?  She is also on a prescribed diet, but I noticed that the 3rd ingredient is corn which I did not think was good for dogs.

[pkbooks]

Thank you so much for your imput!

[Aleda M Cheng, D.V.M., C.V.A]

I am sorry to hear about this difficult problem.  IBD can often be attributed to food hypersensitivities or allergies, lack of digestive enzymes and bacterial overgrowth in the gut.  I think the antibiotics are necessary.  Good additions to her protocol would include a grain-free hypoallergenic diet, such as duck and potato, a good probiotic supplement such as I-Flora or Culterelle, and a digestive enzyme combination,  such as Prozyme, or NuZyme.  An excellent almost complete vitamin/mineral supplement is MissingLink.  I would not add this to the diet until she has completely recovered from this acute bout though, and then I would introduce it very slowly.  I would also add a Colostrum supplement to the diet.