Paws, Reflect & Heal with Dr. Randy

Your Pet is Vomiting: Do THIS First

• Dr. Randy Pet Vet • Episode 38

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Pet Parents, when your dog or cat is throwing up, knowing the right steps to take can be critical. Dr. Randy and his co-host, Olivia Sacci, break down the difference between acute and chronic pet vomiting, explain the immediate at-home care (like controlled water intake with ice cubes), and reveal why the traditional chicken and rice bland diet is actually inflammatory from a Chinese medicine perspective. Learn the holistic and integrative approach to settling your pet's stomach safely.

This episode is a must-watch for any Pet Parent seeking expert integrative veterinary medicine advice. This episode covers everything from when to rush to the emergency (look for blood or foreign objects) to the best food to reintroduce after fasting (think turkey or beef with simple oats instead of rice). Dr. Randy offers his 40+ years of experience to help you understand your pet's health deeply. If you have questions about dog nutrition, cat nutrition, or natural pet health, please subscribe to the channel.  While Dr. Randy can only give medical advice to his clients, feel free to send a question to ASKME@drrandypetvet.com and we'll answer it in a future video. 

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SPEAKER_01:

Dr. Randy here, and we're gonna co-host Dr. Olivia Sashi, or Soon to Be Doctor. Soon to be. I I call her that because she deserves that. She's already there. Uh but uh anyway, we're here um to talk about uh my pet throwing up.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. So today we have a question from Mary in Georgia, and it's my dog is throwing up. How do I make it stop?

SPEAKER_01:

Wow. Uh well, you know, that's a very good question. And I think the most important piece of that is um, is it consistent? Has it been going on for a while, or did it just happen? Now, in the chronic situation, meaning it's thrown up multiple times, that's a time you need to call your veterinaire. Yes, I agree. We, you know, we are all all trained in multiple ways of figuring out what could be the impetus or uh the possible disease that could be going on that could be causing this, because it could be many different things.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, there's something I I recently learned in my veterinary school journey called a differential diagnosis. So all of the different things that we think could be causing the vomiting.

SPEAKER_01:

Right, right. Some of those get to be quite uh log and elaborated.

SPEAKER_00:

I yes, I agree. I agree.

SPEAKER_01:

So, you know, if it's just happened once, here's a couple little suggestions at home. First of all, let's withhold food. Okay. There's no reason if your uh cat or dog has just started vomiting to let them have more of uh food to vomit. Yeah, exactly. So we tell people withhold food for at least a few hours. Uh my tendency a lot of times, if it doesn't seem to be a real serious problem, is actually sometimes withholding food for 24 hours. You know, fasting our animals occasionally is really good for a lot of different reasons. Uh we can talk about that in another segment into another episode. But that withholding is good. The other thing is uh we want them to have water, but these um our dogs and cats, when they're vomiting, tend to drink more water than they need. Right. So I always tell people put a few ice cubes and a little bit of water in their ball and let them have a little bit of a time. That's it. We don't want them to overguzzle the water and cause the stomach to distend and vomit some more.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but we still want them to have water so they don't become like dehydrated or something like that.

SPEAKER_01:

Please. But remember, if this is going on uh more than once repetitive times, if you see uh, God forbid any blood in that vomitus, anything that looks abnormal, uh get a hold of your veterinarian and get in. And if not, get to an emergency uh service and have that, have your pet checked out. It's very critical.

SPEAKER_00:

Especially because if you have a dog like mine that likes to eat inanimate objects, uh one of the symptoms of having something stuck in there can be the vomiting. Yeah. And that can be really dangerous.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and even in that situation, just to add, um I've done endoscopy for years, and so often if we get those early where that inanimate object is still in the stomach, many times we can preclude surgery and go in with an endoscope and grab it. I've done hundreds of those. Sometime we'll cover what I've seen in that. I used to have a great slide that I'd show of all the things I pulled out in a year from dogs and cats' stomachs.

SPEAKER_00:

I would love to see that.

SPEAKER_01:

We'll have to find that for you.

SPEAKER_00:

And then I guess my last kind of question is when we do reintroduce food, what's your opinion on like a bland diet or something like that?

SPEAKER_01:

Great question. So I'm really sticky about the bland diet. Okay. Um, you'll hear a lot of people recommend chicken and rice. Yes. I don't do that. Why? Because in Chinese medicine, chicken is a hot food, so it can create more inflammation. Yes. And the rice is a simple carb that turns to sugar, which is inflammatory. Um, I like to use things like uh turkey or beef and oats. Okay or millet or barley. Uh the easiest is Quaker oats. Just get the old-fashioned, don't buy the quick. Um, nuke it a little bit, add your uh turkey or beef and small amounts. But remember, start with very small amounts of this and then work up.

SPEAKER_00:

That makes a lot of sense. Because just like if you were sick and you tried to eat a bunch of food after you stopped vomiting, uh, that wouldn't go down so well. Especially if you were trying to eat something like sushi. That's maybe maybe we start off with something a little more simple.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Perfect. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So we hope that helps. Thanks for joining us. Um, you we you could find us at our on our social media on Instagram or YouTube at Dr. Randy Petvet. Uh, also my website. Also, you can follow Dr. Satchi at Dr. Satchi. Um, that's C-A-S-A-C-C-I.

SPEAKER_00:

He's got it. Yep. He's an Italian. Well, I'm getting it.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm getting it. Anyway, uh, again, uh, and tell your your pet friends to subscribe, listen to us, follow us. It really helps us get more information the more of those followers we have.

SPEAKER_00:

And if you or any of them have any questions, please feel free to add those in the comments on YouTube, on Instagram, or go to his website and submit one. Uh, we look through those and we respond to them with these podcasts uh so that you can get the information that you need. So thank you guys so much for joining us.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you guys.