acid reflux in addisons toy poodle

[Marcia NYC]

My 13 year old dog (she is a recent rescue) has recently been diagnosed with Addisons disease. We got her thru a very critical part of the disease, but now we find although she is hungry she appears to have some sort of possible acid reflux. She wants to eat. We have been grinding up her food to thin it out (a mix of hills lowfat ID, boiled chicken, pumpkin & warm water to thin it out) the texture is like baby food. But if we let her eat for more then 10 seconds she starts to back up (we call it moon walking) till she hits a wall, then she braces herself and begins to make huffing noises and frequently regurgetates....HELP, she needs to eat to get strong so we can control her addisons!! Any suggestions would be helpful. Shes taking her preds, pepsid and one other medicine thats supposed to help with  the reflux, but its not working!!!

[Jo CIMDA]

Hi Marcia

The most effective drug that I know of to treat gastric reflux is Omeprazole Dose: Dogs : 0.5 - 1.5mg/kg/24hrs for a maximum of 8 weeks (BSAVA Small Animal Formulary 6th Edition) . 

You say she is taking preds.  Is she also on Percorten (DOCP) or Florinef?  I do hope so.

Jo

[Penel CIMDA moderator]

What does the vet say - do you think it's possible she also has Megaesophagus? it sounds like it could be that.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2012/10/29/megaesophagus-disorder.aspx

[Jo CIMDA]

Hi

The link that Penel has given is very good.  I have known dogs with MegaO to be fed with the front two feet on the bottom stair to enable the food to travel down the throat easier.

Jo

[Rebecca]

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