[Dailydrool] Bloat

[Esther Strom]

Again, from experience, I can tell you it is possible for a bloating dog to vomit if there's food in the digestive tract forward (closer to the mouth) of the gas/twisted part. That said, once that's cleared out it is unlikely that they'd be able to vomit.


Esther, Basil, and Waldo ATB (the source of all this bloat knowledge...)


----- Original Message ----

I may be incorrect but I was under the impression that dogs that are bloating are UNABLE to bring anything up-- that they have the dry heaves or retch uncontrollably, but cannot vomit productively.
I also thought that they often were unable to defecate, and that gut sounds were likely to be lessened, not louder.
I am not arguing, I just know that the dogs that came to the clinic in full bloat were not able to vomit, whether there was torsion or not.

I am personally familiar with the middle of night frantic grass and carpet "vacuuming" along with the incredibly loud gut sounds. I also give simethicone and sit up with the dogs, but none have ever bloated or if they did I did not think they were, because I have never done a middle-of -the-night bloat call. 

I would really like to know if I am correct in my thinking that bloating dogs do not vomit.

MomPerson to Nigel, Llewis, Conley and Cooper