[cgriffin]

Hm, I don't understand. The i/d is a bland diet to settle his stomach and hopefully it will go back to normal. I fed i/d to my golden when he was a pup and kept on having tummy troubles. I only fed it several times for a few days.
So, if it helps his tummy get straightened out, then why not try the i/d? While on i/d the vet can look for a solution to his problems and find a diet you can stick with.
I switched my golden at the time to a lamb and rice diet and never had to use the i/d again, but the i/d had helped settle his tummy down and get rid of the diarrhea.

 

[Dallas Gold]

Dogs that have chronic giardia, diarrhea or colitis generally have inflammed intestinal tissues and ID (canned or dry), or a similar brand by Royal Canin or Purina, is perfect to give them a highly digestible food source and allow them to heal. So yes, if your dog has suffered chronic diarrhea and soft stool, changes are there is some inflammatory response going on in his digestive system. As I mentioned, we started getting soft stool with our guy the second week of May and we are planning on keeping him on the dry ID for at least another month, just to help his digestive system calm down and heal.

 

[chanwhk]

My dog has exactly the same problem. Since puppy his digestion system was very sensitive. Giardia almost always came negative. But he just keeps having watery and soft poop once in a while. Vet has no clue whats going on and I've spent hundreds on vet visits with no improvement. Vet suggested me to go with Royal canine and that helps a little. However, I'd like my dog to have premium food so I went with some dry food with limited ingredients.

I used to feed him the best with Orijen, which is a very rich, high protein, full meal dry food. Too rich his stomach can't handle it. The reason I went with limited ingredients food is I suspect he might be allergic to some of the ingredients. With limited ingredients you can kind of do test and trials and see which type of protein your dog does better with.

I'm still in process of finding out which protein my dog is allergic to. It seems salmon or turkey has something to do with it.

FYI, I am now feeding California Natural and he is doing ok but not great still.

BTW, you can try adding 1-2 spoons of yogurt to his diet which helps with digestion. There are also some kind of powder you can add to his food that helps too.

 

[Ljilly28]

Pepcid AC, the simple single ingredient one, can be soooo helpful.