How to Treat Diarrhea in Dogs Naturally

Determine if your dog has ingested dangerous foods. Diarrhea is usually caused by a dog ingesting something that should not be eaten. In most cases, dogs can be healthy again after excreting the food.

• However, you should bring your dog to the veterinarian immediately if you find that your dog has ingested toxic items such as rat poison or household cleaning products.

Take the dog’s temperature. Simple diarrhea is rarely accompanied by fever. Fever indicates that the dog is suffering from some kind of infection/infection. To take your dog’s temperature, you need to ask someone to keep the dog still by inserting the push arm under the dog’s belly and pulling the dog’s hind legs towards the chest. Next, the person must use the other hand to fix the dog’s chin. Gently restrain and coo to the dog if it wiggles. Put a muzzle on your dog if you are afraid the dog will bite you during the temperature measurement.

• Lubricate the thermometer, then lift the tail and gently insert the thermometer into the dog’s anus. For female dogs, you should avoid mistakenly inserting the thermometer into the vulva just below the anus.
• The thermometer should not be pushed hard to avoid injury to the dog.
• After the thermometer signal is completed, you can pull out the thermometer to read the result.
• Normal temperature is around 38-39 degrees Celsius.
• A temperature of 39.7 degrees Celsius or higher means that your dog has a fever. ^[4]

Note when the dog has diarrhea accompanied by vomiting. ^[5] Vomiting combined with diarrhea is often dangerous because dogs will be twice as dehydrated. This puts the dog in a position of severe dehydration and is even more worrisome if the dog is unable to drink and tolerate water. If this is the case, you should take your dog to the doctor right away.

Check for dehydration. ^[6] The essence of diarrhea is that stools contain large amounts of liquid. If diarrhea is excessive and cannot be rehydrated in time, the dog will become dehydrated. Dehydration reduces blood supply to organs like the liver or kidneys and causes potential damage.

• To check for dehydration, you can lift the skin of your dog’s nape off the shoulder blades, then release.
• If the nape of the neck returns to the correct position relative to the shoulder blades, the dog’s skin is sufficiently hydrated.
• If the dog is dehydrated, the skin will be less elastic and it will take a few seconds or longer to return to its proper state.

Check for diarrhea with blood. ^[7] Diarrhea with blood indicates inflammation or bleeding. Inflammation is only uncomfortable, but bleeding can be life-threatening. You can’t tell the difference between inflammation and bleeding at home, so get your dog checked out immediately if there’s blood in the dog’s stool.