Can a lg dog show several symptoms of kidney failure and have normal bloodwork? What else could be the cause?

Question

Healthy, 106 lb. rottie suddenly lost appetite, became lethargic, started vomiting severely, drinking huge amts. of water. Vet said all blood work, including creatinine, etc. were perfectly normal. Dr. did exploratory surgery, looking for blockage, etc. Nothing found, all organs appeared normal. He never stopped vomiting, never recovered after 10 days or so.

Healthy, 106 lb. rottie suddenly lost appetite, became lethargic, started vomiting severely, drinking huge amts. of water. Vet said all blood work, including creatinine, etc. were perfectly normal. Dr. did exploratory surgery, looking for blockage, etc. Nothing found, all organs appeared normal. He never stopped vomiting, never recovered after 10 days or so.
Added at 7:16 pm CDT: He never recovered, he died on Feb. 5. He had been eating Old Roy "Gourmet Balance" dry dog food, supplemented by occasional can of Alpo Prime Cuts with Gravy when he got sick. He had been on a diet of Purina dry food prior to this one bag of Old Roy. My hubby was in hospital, my dog was out of food, I ran by WalMart, grabbed the green bag of dog food, didn't realize til I got home that I had Old Roy, NOT Purina! He didn't seem to like it, but finally gave in and ate some of it off and on for about a week, finally became extremely ill.

Healthy, 106 lb. rottie suddenly lost appetite, became lethargic, started vomiting severely, drinking huge amts. of water. Vet said all blood work, including creatinine, etc. were perfectly normal. Dr. did exploratory surgery, looking for blockage, etc. Nothing found, all organs appeared normal. He never stopped vomiting, never recovered after 10 days or so.
Added at 7:16 pm CDT: He never recovered, he died on Feb. 5. He had been eating Old Roy "Gourmet Balance" dry dog food, supplemented by occasional can of Alpo Prime Cuts with Gravy when he got sick. He had been on a diet of Purina dry food prior to this one bag of Old Roy. My hubby was in hospital, my dog was out of food, I ran by WalMart, grabbed the green bag of dog food, didn't realize til I got home that I had Old Roy, NOT Purina! He didn't seem to like it, but finally gave in and ate some of it off and on for about a week, finally became extremely ill.

Answer 1

My family just lost our 4 yr old bulldog Feb. 8th this year with the same symptoms as mentioned. The first day when he got sick his eyes looked sunken then he vomited his stomach contents along with healthy bowel movement ( no diareha) and urinated in the house, I immeditally took him to the vet they ran bloodwork, gave him a shot of antibiotics, some iv fluids and told me to callback the next day for results on the bloodwork and sent us home. When I called the vet said everything was fine in the bloodwork and that maybe he just didn't feel good and monitor his water intake and if anything else happens to take him to the local animal hospitol. Well later that day he started vomiting and while vomiting he collapased and stopped breathing, I shook him and he came back to so my wife and I rushed him to the hospitol where again they did bloodwork (again showing nothing) had him housed in an oxygen kennel for 2 hours did 4 x-rays to make sure he didn't have pnumomea, iv fluids, etc and kept him overnight. When my son and I picked him up the next night it was as if he was never sick and told us he should be fine.

The vet required him on a diet of boiled rice and hamburger along with a couple of prescriptions for anti-nausea medication, antibiotics and something else that I now can't remember, along with that I had to get Pepto and Pepcid to give him and also yogurt. He was doing fine for the full 3 days he was home and also the 4th morning of the day that he died on, he ate everything had normal bathroom movements, but when my oldest son came home from school that day he had found that he had past away.

The food that I fed him with is Walmart brand Ol' Roy Kibbles Chunks 'n Chews dry dog food. So I don't know what to do he has since been cremated so I don't know if he had suffered any type of renal falure but I still have the food and thinking about having the food tested because if the dry food is a problem then I want to know and should have that info given out to the public.

He was the second family member that we had lost in 3 years, our first bulldog lived to a grand age of 13 before developing cancer in his lower jaw and needed to be called home, but before he had moved on I felt our family would make that transition from our loss easier if we brought in another family member and it did, but with our latest setback there was noone there this time to help us move on because of the suddenness of what happened.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The exact same thing happened to my dog last week and the vet never could determine the cause. She just gave him an anti-vomiting shot, some antibiotics, some fluids, and a strict diet and he eventually did recover.

Since he is apparently dehydrated, some of the things the vet put on the list of foods for him are rice, chicken breast, eggs, cream of wheat, and cottage cheese. My dog started best with the eggs hard boiled.

Good luck with your dog. I really hope he gets better!

Answer 4

Sounds just like what happened to our rottie about 1- 2 weeks ago our dog was eating Pedigree what was your dog eating ?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

It might be the food?

Answer 7

I am sorry for your loss.