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Taking Care of a Puppy With Parvo at Home

My son's 7 month old pup started puking up foamy liquid and it had a little grass in it yesterday. He had not wanted anything to eat or drink at all yesterday, then last night he got up and started playing with our older dog. I made him some Chicken Top Ramen noodles. At first all he wanted was the broth, then when we added a little dog food to it he ate almost all of it.

We thought he was getting better, but now he doesn't want anything and you can tell he is not feeling well. A few years ago my son's girlfriend had a pup that was really sick. When we took her in to the vet they said she had Parvo and didn't think she was going to make it. But they gave us a couple bags of water for IVs they told us to just make sure we gave her an IV every couple of hours plus they gave us some kind of pills to give her.

Does anybody know where I can buy the IV bags? What kind of medications is it that they give them? Is it an antibiotic? Please help, my husband is refusing to put out anymore money on dogs, because my son had told us he had done his shots months ago. Now we find out that he only gave one shot, not the two follow-up ones.

By mindyspupinfo from Nampa, ID

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RE: Taking Care of a Puppy With Parvo at Home

It's not parvo. My puppy had the same thing a few days ago. He probably has hook worms that's what mine had and she was doing the same thing yours was not eating had Diarrhea throwing up and then the next days she would go play with my other dogs! I took her to the vet and they said its not parvo because if it was she wouldn't be sick one day and fine the other, but hook worms do do that they eat all the food in there body's and then start to eat the puppy the bad bad thing is if your puppy has hookworms then the rest of your dogs do also and you will have to take them all to the vet to get them shots and a good thing to also do is clean your house really good because how they get hookworms is by smelling each others butt so your new puppy could've gotten it from its mother and now brought it into your home! So a vet is the best thing for your puppy right now.

Post by TaniPaigi

RE: Taking Care of a Puppy With Parvo at Home

A lot of the tractor supply stores and stuff that sells feed sells dewormer and antibiotics and such check there that might help!

Post by KimmyLynn

RE: Taking Care of a Puppy With Parvo at Home

As far as I know you have to get them from the vet. Parvo has a very distinct odor and comes with diaraha and vomiting more than foamy grass and if the puppy is only throwning up grass and foam most likely he has been eating grass to settle his stomach and he may have eaten something else that didn't agree with him. Either way, best bet is to take him to the vet and get a proper diagnosis and medication.

You should not feed ramen noodles to a dog as the sodium content is through the roof and is not good for an upset stomach. Best thing to feed a dog with an upset stomach is boiled white meat chicken and plain rice.

Does your son work and can he help pay the vet bill?

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