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Dog Diarrhea and Vomiting.
Information on diarrhea and vomiting in your dog and ways to help them back to full health.
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What Causes Vomiting and Diarrhea in Dogs?
Vomiting and diarrhea in dogs is caused by problems in the digestive system, this digestive system is basically a long tube from the mouth of your dog to the anus which processes all the food eaten. Along the way all the food will be processed in the appropriate way and then disposed of as feces.
The problem that causes vomiting or diarrhea in your dog is when something disrupts this process somewhere along the digestive tubes and your dogs defence system assumes there is something harmful and unwanted in the body and tries to get rid of it in the way of dog vomit or diarrhea.
It's not uncommon for you to notice that your dog only has either vomiting or diarrhea; this is determined by where the problem is situated along the digestive system and can be a big clue to the problem you have.
If your dogs' problem lies within the small intestine/upper intestine or stomach, vomiting and diarrhea may be noticed for a short time then as the illness develops and moves down to just the small intestines, only diarrhea will be present. In this situation your dog will be feeling and looking very unwell, with a lack of appetite and will not need to toilet much more than usual but will have large amounts of diarrhea.
If the problem is lower in the dogs' digestive system in the large intestine then only diarrhea will be present with no vomiting. In this case your dog will frequently pass small amounts of feces and may struggle to do so (not to be confused with constipation) with possible blood in the feces, jelly like textured feces, or increased dog flatulence. Besides this your dog should have normal appetite and attitude, and seem otherwise unaffected.
These two cases of small intestinal and large bowel diarrhea should be easily distinguished and recognised. Once this is decided, you may now want to look further at the 'Possible Illnesses' section below.
Associated Conditions
Dog Food Poisoning
Dog Gastric Bloat
Dog Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Dog Intussusception
Dog Pancreatitis
Dog with Obstruction in the Digestive System
Dog Parvovirus Infection
Dog Pyometra (uterine/womb infections)
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