OMEPRAZOLE FOR DOGS AND CATS?

Veterinary Surgeon, Professor Rob Foale has written an article on his concerns about the human medication Omeprazole being dished out by vets for dogs and cats. Remembering that our bodies and gastric tracts operate completely differently to our pets. A lot more research is required and the professor explains why in his article on Omeprazole. Please read if you are interested. 

https://www.vvs.vet/thoughts-on-omeprazole-use/

Further to the recent post on my dog that wasn't very well last week, this blogpost written today is an update on last weeks post. 

https://lotusfeet22.blogspot.com/2023/10/sausage-sickness-dogs.html

Our vet prescribed what she called an anti-sickness medication to stop him vomiting, he was given the Omeprazole medication and he was given it for three days prior to eating some cooked chicken and rice.  After three days it looked like he had returned to normal so the next day I began to re-introduce some of his raw food, a complete meal of duck especially prepared for dogs. 

Then during Friday night he experienced some diarrhoea and it was lumpy like vomit, not only that but it was dark red and looked like congealed blood so it had been in his digestive system for more than a day.  So did the sausage from the previous weekend (see previous blogpost linked above) cause a blockage in his GI track or did the Omeprazole cause the bloody diarrhoea? I think it was the Omeprazole. 

I then put him back on chicken and rice for a few days, stopped giving him the Omeprazole medication and continued with the pro-biotic prescribed by the vet. He was back in recovery again. Then yesterday, I reintroduced his complete raw food again, this time it was lamb that his body is used too digesting. I don't usually give him rice due to the oxalates in rice. He has been fed a raw food diet since he was about 4 months old and he usually does great on it. 

This blogpost is to alert pet owners about Omeprazole. 

Even in humans this pharmaceutical drug has side effects and includes nutrient deficiencies and infections.