Q&A: Dog has diarrhea and its not parasites.?
Question by PMD: Dog has diarrhea and its not parasites.?
My dog has diarrhea (not constant) when she goes potty which is twice a day its diarrhea since Sunday. No blood or anything. I took a stool sample in today and its negative of parasites. She’s not a puppy. She’s a 14 month old lab. What else can it be. Her brother has it a little too. They are both acting soo normal. Wild and everything. They’ve both been on a bland diet (rice and chicken and a little bit of yogurt since Sunday).
Yes, they tested for Coccidia and Giardia and all the rest of those gross things.
No change in diet whatsoever prior to diarrhea.
They eat Innova Adult and have been on it since we adopted them both.
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Answer by Claudia
Maybe the food that the puppy was eating previously…. check with the vet 
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What does the vet suggest since the stool sample was negative? Did they check for Giardia and Coccidia?
Changing the dog’s food in any way can result in diarrhea. Give the dog plenty of water and just wait it out. If, in a few days from now, it hasn’t gone away, then take them to the vet again.
Do you know how they tested the stool? There are multiple ways to test feces, some are better than others (gold standard is centrifugation).
Many clinics use the ’sugar floatation’ method, which, frankly sucks. You miss a lot of positive cases with this. (I’ve been told by people who should know, that there really was no good evidence for ever doing it like this, but it was a marketing ploy)
Put her on a boiled chicken and white rice diet. This will help her system get back on track and be more regular. Take her completely off of her normal food and give her the same amount of boiled chicken and rice at the same times during the day as you normally would. Continue feeding her this until her poop turns solid as normal. Then start giving her a little less chicken/rice and adding in a little of her normal food. Each time you feed her give her a little less chicken/rice and a little more normal food. Keep an eye on her poop, if it starts getting really soft take a step back and give her a little more chicken/rice and a little less normal food. If her poop isn’t normal with in a couple days of feeding her the chicken and rice or if you are not able to get her back on her normal food without her having diarrhea again, you need to take her to your vet. There may be something else wrong.
Some dogs get digestive upset from food they’re on,but if the dogs have diarrhea,remove their drinking water and replace it with the baby non-flavored pediolyte,let them drink all they want,as this will settle the stomach and replace any electrolytes they have lost during the diarrhea.
I have to wonder if you changed their diet just prior to the problem. Dogs will act like this when adjusting to a new dog food. I also don’t know their environment, because they could have eaten or tasted something that has upset their system and it should return to normal. You should also know that Purina puts an additive in their food that solidifies stools. The only other cause could be an imbalance of digestive bacteria, which I recently treated by Boxers for. I do know this is why you are giving them yogurt, but is that the right culture. They sell gels and tablets to balance the bacteria levels in their intestines. Good luck.
Do you use Nutro? I did and this happened when I got a new bad of the same flavor. I changed the food to a new brand and it went away.
You should totally change the food and see if it helps. If so, toss that old bag.