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by miamunchkin
05 Sep 2018, 15:25
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Any Advice or Suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 13810

Re: Any Advice or Suggestions

Hi Jean, Thanks for the link! The specialist also recommended trying home-cooked meals so she gave me a couple of samples of this fish and sweet potato from a company called Just Food for Dogs (they specialized in food for dogs with things like IBD and EPI), but Mia got sick on it almost right away ...
by miamunchkin
05 Sep 2018, 15:17
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Any Advice or Suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 13810

Re: Any Advice or Suggestions

Hi Olesia, Glad we eventually got it figured out! Thanks again for getting back to me so quickly! Danielle, Thanks for writing me privately... so sorry you had issues with replying to the posts.... hopefully what you did fixed it... and ... BTW....i am impressed ... but..... if it happens again, ple...
by miamunchkin
05 Sep 2018, 15:14
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Any Advice or Suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 13810

Re: Any Advice or Suggestions

Hello, Thank you for your reply! Sorry for my own late one--having some technical difficulties. Unfortunately, I can definitely say that the Viokase-V isn't going to work, or at least not the way it was originally instructed. She was prescribed 1/2 teaspoon twice a day. The first day, I gave her 1/2...
by miamunchkin
05 Sep 2018, 15:08
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Any Advice or Suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 13810

Re: Any Advice or Suggestions

Hi Jean, Sorry, some technical issues with my laptop! Do you know if there's a recommended brand for plant enzymes? I'd definitely be interested to hear from Maddy about tests for allergies, but her vet did say that there weren't any definitive tests available for Mia. Maybe because of her IBD the t...
by miamunchkin
30 Aug 2018, 23:45
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Any Advice or Suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 13810

Re: Any Advice or Suggestions

Definitely, I will! Thanks for your help :)
by miamunchkin
30 Aug 2018, 22:58
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Any Advice or Suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 13810

Re: Any Advice or Suggestions

Thanks for pointing that out -- I didn't think of that at all. I'll definitely bring that up with the specialist. I had heard though from the first internal medicine specialist that enzymes not put directly into food aren't very effective? Or maybe he just meant the tablets.
by miamunchkin
30 Aug 2018, 20:40
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Any Advice or Suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 13810

Re: Any Advice or Suggestions

Thanks for getting back to me! HP diet just stands for hydrolyzed protein so she's already on that, Creon is made out of porcine enzymes (the same thing as Viokase-V), and TLI is 2.6. We've got a pretty good handle on what she's allergic, too, in terms of food (except for novel proteins like duck or...
by miamunchkin
30 Aug 2018, 18:51
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Any Advice or Suggestions
Replies: 23
Views: 13810

Any Advice or Suggestions

Hello everyone, I posted on this forum a couple of weeks ago asking about a bad reaction Mia had to Viokase-V (possibly because they were high concentrations of porcine). Thank you again for all the advice at the time! It's really helped me these past weeks as I scramble to keep up with many new cha...
by miamunchkin
01 Aug 2018, 17:56
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Loss of Appetite After 1st Digestive Enzyme Dose
Replies: 25
Views: 19564

Re: Loss of Appetite After 1st Digestive Enzyme Dose

Hi, She's doing much better today (yay!) so I think it was the IBD, and not the enzymes or something else, that caused her to be sick yesterday. She's already eating back to normal, and her stool has gone back from a bad 7 to a decent 5. I had heard about that as well, and I was thinking about ensur...
by miamunchkin
01 Aug 2018, 17:47
Forum: Epi4Dogs Forum
Topic: Loss of Appetite After 1st Digestive Enzyme Dose
Replies: 25
Views: 19564

Re: Loss of Appetite After 1st Digestive Enzyme Dose

Thank you, and thanks for your advice. Do you know if there's ever a limit to how long you can incubate? Welcome to the forum. Oh how I well I remember the beginning when my girl refused to eat, even though she was literally starving. It was heartbreaking. In the beginning, I fed her spoonfuls and e...