Your Pet is Vomiting: Do THIS First

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 [e-mail] and we'll answer it in a future video. 

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_01 (00:08):
Dr.
Randy here, and we're gonnaco-host Dr.
Olivia Sashi, or Soon to BeDoctor.
Soon to be.
I I call her that because shedeserves that.
She's already there.
Uh but uh anyway, we're here umto talk about uh my pet throwing
up.

SPEAKER_00 (00:23):
Yes.
So today we have a question fromMary in Georgia, and it's my dog
is throwing up.
How do I make it stop?

SPEAKER_01 (00:29):
Wow.
Uh well, you know, that's a verygood question.
And I think the most importantpiece of that is um, is it
consistent?
Has it been going on for awhile, or did it just happen?
Now, in the chronic situation,meaning it's thrown up multiple
times, that's a time you need tocall your veterinaire.
Yes, I agree.
We, you know, we are all alltrained in multiple ways of

(00:50):
figuring out what could be theimpetus or uh the possible
disease that could be going onthat could be causing this,
because it could be manydifferent things.

SPEAKER_00 (00:59):
Yeah, there's something I I recently learned
in my veterinary school journeycalled a differential diagnosis.
So all of the different thingsthat we think could be causing
the vomiting.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08):
Right, right.
Some of those get to be quite uhlog and elaborated.

SPEAKER_00 (01:12):
I yes, I agree.
I agree.

SPEAKER_01 (01:14):
So, you know, if it's just happened once, here's
a couple little suggestions athome.
First of all, let's withholdfood.
Okay.
There's no reason if your uh cator dog has just started vomiting
to let them have more of uh foodto vomit.
Yeah, exactly.
So we tell people withhold foodfor at least a few hours.
Uh my tendency a lot of times,if it doesn't seem to be a real

(01:37):
serious problem, is actuallysometimes withholding food for
24 hours.
You know, fasting our animalsoccasionally is really good for
a lot of different reasons.
Uh we can talk about that inanother segment into another
episode.
But that withholding is good.
The other thing is uh we wantthem to have water, but these um
our dogs and cats, when they'revomiting, tend to drink more

(01:59):
water than they need.
Right.
So I always tell people put afew ice cubes and a little bit
of water in their ball and letthem have a little bit of a
time.
That's it.
We don't want them to overguzzlethe water and cause the stomach
to distend and vomit some more.

SPEAKER_00 (02:11):
Yeah, but we still want them to have water so they
don't become like dehydrated orsomething like that.

SPEAKER_01 (02:15):
Please.
But remember, if this is goingon uh more than once repetitive
times, if you see uh, God forbidany blood in that vomitus,
anything that looks abnormal, uhget a hold of your veterinarian
and get in.
And if not, get to an emergencyuh service and have that, have
your pet checked out.
It's very critical.

SPEAKER_00 (02:34):
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 bethe vomiting.
Yeah.
And that can be reallydangerous.

SPEAKER_01 (02:43):
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 inanimateobject is still in the stomach,
many times we can precludesurgery and go in with an
endoscope and grab it.
I've done hundreds of those.
Sometime we'll cover what I'veseen in that.
I used to have a great slidethat I'd show of all the things

(03:04):
I pulled out in a year from dogsand cats' stomachs.

SPEAKER_00 (03:06):
I would love to see that.

SPEAKER_01 (03:07):
We'll have to find that for you.

SPEAKER_00 (03:08):
And then I guess my last kind of question is when we
do reintroduce food, what's youropinion on like a bland diet or
something like that?

SPEAKER_01 (03:15):
Great question.
So I'm really sticky about thebland diet.
Okay.
Um, you'll hear a lot of peoplerecommend 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 carbthat turns to sugar, which is
inflammatory.
Um, I like to use things like uhturkey or beef and oats.

(03:36):
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, addyour uh turkey or beef and small
amounts.
But remember, start with verysmall amounts of this and then
work up.

SPEAKER_00 (03:51):
That makes a lot of sense.
Because just like if you weresick and you tried to eat a
bunch of food after you stoppedvomiting, uh, that wouldn't go
down so well.
Especially if you were trying toeat something like sushi.
That's maybe maybe we start offwith something a little more
simple.

SPEAKER_01 (04:03):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (04:04):
Perfect.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (04:04):
So we hope that helps.
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SPEAKER_00 (04:23):
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Yep.
He's an Italian.
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