I agree with you wholeheartedly Olesia. Every announcement for a successful new drug used in trials is followed by the downside of the 5 year wait for approvals and manufacturing . It costs a fortune in worldwide patents alone . I am thankful that we have the NHS in the Uk. My daughter was approved ...

Oh dear, this is so complicated. Going back to basics, what ingredients of raw food are you using? Do you think any bone is getting digested ? Sharp fragments causing injury? Being a Labrador, why stop at weather strip foam. I appreciate your concerns with immunosuppressive drugs. But sometimes they...

Agree . My dog had a grade one heart murmur for most of her12 years, no problem . My 39 yr old nephew was born with a hole in his heart, the the parents took the wait and see approach, and still ok. I’m not so sure with a wildly excitable little terrier. Has he had a scan or just listened to with a ...

I used simparica without side effects on healthy dogs. In the information leaflet it stated to only use it for two years. That statement was enough for me to abandon it. My epi dog became ill for a week after the usual multi booster vaccination. The vet advised not to give it again, but to only give...

Too much enzyme is too much . Other factors that can produce the sausage skin jelly can be food related. Some of the natures domain recipes contain peas, which are high fibre a d upset many dogs. Then some of their ingredients are very high fat. Enzymes should deal with that , but large doses can ca...

It doesn’t sound like epi but that doesn’t mean we can’t help. Has your vet given suggestions for caring for the relapses? Blood in the poop means a bit of inflammation and ulceration. Does the blood appear to be fresh, as from the lower gut? With humans and dogs , it can help to use a mucilage like...

Specific advice is on the menu (top right) on the home page. Tons of reading!

https://epi4dogs.com/slippery-elm/
Regarding brands , people use Wonderlabs in the US, but in the UK we have various ones, without any issues. Not dog specific. It’s the same as mucilage meds for people, eg Fibogel.

Doesn’t he show interest in drops of your food on the floor? My old epi dog at first would not anything with enzymes. I put tiny morsels of fishy smelling food in her mouth,, smuggling hidden enzymes in it. Hours of tears. She drank heavily, wet herself but gradually accepted a Uk brand of coated ta...

Aaaah…. Rumbling and room-emptying foul farts are classic Sibo/SID. Antibiotics!! Tylan in the US otherwise Oxytetracycline. In Uk. Metrobactin is not advised because of side effects.

So sorry to read of your problems. I know nothing of the concurrent conditions, but are they something to do with the bloat? My dog had developed fluid in the abdomen and chest cavity, in her case it was PLE, protein losing enteropathy, which showed the fluid build up on a scan. If all this is press...