| Re: Our Sweet Sassy Has Parvo!?!? Sounds like you are doing much better.
Keep Feeding a few of ounces "baby type" food like suggested by other posters, every few hours. You can mix in a little plain yogurt for the enrichment of the intestinal baterial flora. You could add flavored pedialyte mixed with a little brown sugar (1tspn per cup), into her drinking water - say 50:50 ratio. Only set out about 60cc for her to drink every hour can be slowly increased provided she has no nausea, vomitting or diarrhea. SHe may not be eating due to nausea and/or abdominal pain. Reglan shots every 6 -8 hours are benificial. Or po - if that is not an option.
The key is small amounts of food and water frequently. Do not let her eat/drink a bunch - as this will upset her GI tract, and send her backwards in the healing process.
Recently I had a young dog return from a show & he had a blowout of musosy bloody diarrhea, and threw up 2x prior to. I immediately gave him Kaopectate orally, & Reglan IM. !5 minutes later I began to syringe him the pedialyte sugar with contents of a lactobacillus capsule mix = 10cc every 15 min - he swallowed it, licking his lips. He had no further vomitting so I gradually increased the volume as he tolerated. Key is assessing the condition of the dog. Knowing how much to give them. I used Reglan IM a couple more doses over the day, and Kaopectate every 3 hours. Stool improved, next time he went. 18 hours later he got a teaspon of yogurt mixed in with bland cooked chicken and rice. But had he not turned around so fast - I would have been right into the vet. I kept him crated separately in a quiet room during this time. Onto the area he stooled I cleaned it, and poured bleach mixture to kill whatever might have been the organism. None of my other dogs were or got sick. So I figured he probably ate someting toxic to his system.
Indeed - it is Wonderful news you have come this far.
Best of luck in her full recovery.
Mary-Ann |