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How Long After Medication Can a Fish Eat?
Feeding after medication depends on the drug. With oxytetracycline, withhold food during treatment and resume after stopping. With yellow powder, change water after 3 days then feed.
What Happens If a Cat Eats Cold Canned Food?
Cold cans irritate the gut, causing cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, even acute gastroenteritis. Serve at room temperature; use kibble as staple to avoid pickiness and oral disease.
What Happens If a Cat Vomits White Foam?
White foam may be hairballs, gastroenteritis or poisoning. If it is hairballs with normal spirit, give hairball paste; if mixed with yellow/green bile, it is acute gastroenteritis, see a vet.
What Happens If a Dog Eats Sour and Spicy Food?
Sour/spicy food irritates a dog's gut, causing coughing, drooling, diarrhea and vomiting, even acute gastroenteritis. If eaten, give probiotics; vet if symptoms appear.
My Cat Has Vomited for Days, with Hair in the Vomit and Yellow Fluid; Gave Cimetidine and Albendazole. What Is Wrong?
Vomiting in cats has many causes, including poor diet, hairballs, gastroenteritis, pancreatitis, drug irritation or panleukopenia. Fast the cat for a day and use probiotics and cimetidine; if no improvement, see a vet.
What happens if a dog eats a bottle cap?
Eating a bottle cap may block the gut, causing abdominal pain, vomiting and poor appetite; caps cannot be digested and hooks may scratch the gut. Feed honey water or yogurt, watch 3 days; if passed, fine, else see a vet.
Why does my dog vomit white foam in the early morning?
White foam may be gastric fluid or coughed-up phlegm. With abdominal cramps consider gastroenteritis from bones or meat, pancreatitis if severe, or an intestinal foreign body causing obstruction. Take the dog to a vet for diagnosis.
How long does a dog’s gastric bleeding take to heal?
Causes vary; simple hemorrhagic gastroenteritis with fluid, hemostasis and gut repair usually improves in 3 to 5 days. Viral enteritis like parvo can be fatal quickly without treatment, so see a vet early.
What happens if you put a turtle in tap water?
Tap water has chlorine that causes diarrhea and may cause shell or skin rot. Strong turtles may adapt after a few bouts, but weak ones may die from enteritis or shell rot if kept in it. Age tap water in sun 2 to 3 days to let chlorine dissipate before use.
How long should a dog with coronavirus fast?
Canine coronavirus damages the gut and causes enteritis. If vomiting or diarrhea occurs, fast about 8 hours; if not, no fasting since long fasting harms gut function. During fasting give fluids and antivirals, then small easily digestible food when improved.