sick puppy, help please

>>2231338
PARVO GET IT TO A REAL VET NOW

>>2231340
negative for parvo

>>2231340
parvo would have killed him in a day horribly.

>>2231346
what else could this be?

>>2231350
Are you feeding him weird shit?

OP try slowly mixing in some plain rice and low fat ground beef to his diet for a few days, and then maybe take him off the dog food he's on for a few days more. Don't do this presently, it's not going to be a nutritionally complete meal, but I have seen a lot of people suggest this for older dogs that are having a hard time digesting food.

Maybe get him checked out for allergies too, a few dogs have HORRIBLE reactions to corn or any kind of wheat.

Metronidazole is a pretty brutal antibiotic. It definitely is used commonly in gut issues with dogs, however, and can be very effective if they're of a bacterial nature. Read up on the symptoms of metronidazole toxicity, which can spring up even after a few days of use in particularly susceptible individuals. In resilient individuals, courses may last 2-4 weeks.

In some dogs metronidazole will cause diarrhea.

By prescribing antibiotics, they're probably just covering their bases since the cause is essentially unknown. If it is viral, they won't do anything. If it's bacterial, they'll help.

That colour and consistency of poop is worrying. Keep a close eye on your puppy for dehydration. They can get really dehydrated really fast at that age, and even older dogs can drop surprisingly quickly.

If the diarrhea continues but puppy does not lose appetite, I would suggest starting to run blood tests checking organ function.

One last thing: what are you feeding the dog?

>>2231338
Darts in the dark, but any blood spots anywhere, bleeding gums? Anything look like a hickey on the dog's exposed skin? Male or female?

Parvo maybe?

>>2231474
this.

>>2231476
Thats already been ruled out, and that dog doesn't have any symptoms of parvo except the diarrea. Besides, parvo would have hit within just a couple days and done most of the damage then. Puppers would have been down for the count, not to mention its siblings would be showing symptoms too.

>>2231338
I pray for your puppy anon. Get well soon

>>2231465
As a human that is allergic to metronidazole you are speaking the truth of how brutal it is. In humans it is also prescribed to alcoholics because of the adverse reactions the drug has when mixed with alcohol tends to keep them from drinking

Have they completely rules out parasites besides worms as well, I've seen a French bull dog with a similar condition from parasites that took months for its stool to harden and feel better.

>>2231515
Doctors are dicks

>>2231515
Yeah. My dog has a chronic gut issue and would have diarrhoea for the rest of his life but for the off-label use of tylosin, which is a pig and poultry antibiotic. A single size-appropriate dog of metronidazole given for the same purpose makes him really sick -- worse diarrhoea, vomiting, extreme lethargy. It's taken him a week to come right after just one dose before.

Thank all that is good for tylosin.

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Please keep us updated, OP

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>>2232092
>dumb

where are you in the US?

(yes, it's relevant)

>>2231483
>not to mention its siblings would be showing symptoms too
Not if they were vaccinated.

How old exactly is the puppy? What shots has it had?

>>2231338
Try to get something to help with inflammation. Gastroenteritis isn't a real diagnosis (it just means inflammation somewhere is the digestive tract) , it's just a symptom that they call a diagnosis when they aren't sure what's wrong.

>>2232248
I should mention that this could just be an allergic reaction that's gotten out of hand.

>>2231363
this but boiled chicken instead of beef. plain with white rice

Coccidia?