Vomiting days after spay?

I have heard of dogs vomiting the day after surgery or not wanting to eat and what not. Adora had her spay surgery Friday morning, we picked her up and you couldn't even tell anything had happened minus the suture on her tummy which was beautifully done, her redness what pretty much gone the next morning and there has been no bleeding or anything. She doesn't were the cone while we are home as she still hasn't even noticed it. We gave we oral medication the vet gave us for pain and anti-inflammatory which she takes with no problem (four days worth yesterday was the last day). But then yesterday evening, four days after surgery, she started vomiting pretty much every hour sometime twice for four hours (tsp-tbs of liquid with a slight yellow colour to it). I gave her a little chicken and rice at her usual dinner time and that was that. Anyone ever experienced that? Or have an idea what could started it?

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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on May 19, 2010 at 10:25am

To be safe I would call the vet right away and see what they say! Did the chicken and rice stay down? if so keep doing that for now and slowly reintroduce the other food mixed with the chix/rice.

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Permalink Reply by Sky and Lyla on May 19, 2010 at 10:41am

If she's vomiting up bile (which is the yellow to yellow-brown liquid) it just means her tummy is empty and she needs to eat. When my guys do that, they get a cookie, and I've never had one throw up again after that. If it stopped after you fed her, that's exactly what it was. Now, that being said, if she's not eating, or acting lethargic, or vomiting food up after eating, or vomiting up anything other than bile, call your vet.

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Permalink Reply by Kimberlie on May 19, 2010 at 2:29pm

She stopped vomiting after her chicken and rice. So it probably was just an empty stomach. She was acting like her normal self before(minus vomiting that is) and after we gave her chicken and rice. But I don't know why all of a sudden she started it now because she was fed and given treats at the same time she does every day. Could the spay caused her metabolism to speed up somehow, do to hormonal changes or something? As I noticed this morning she stomach was growling, and it was pretty loud to. Should I maybe increase the amount of food each serving or add another serving at lunch? She has always been on the skinny side, like her mom, so I don't think it could hurt her weight. Because if she is getting hungrier sooner with limited exercise I’m worried it will happen again or get worse once she is able to run and jump around like a normal day for her. She currently eats 1/2 a cup servings at 7am and 6pm(sometime she won't eat her food right away in the evening but will eat it by 8pm.)

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Permalink Reply by Sky and Lyla on May 19, 2010 at 4:58pm

I can't say why exactly they do it some days and not others except that sometimes they just do. My guess would be, if she was getting kibble before the spay and chicken and rice after, that is your issue (did I get that right?, if not disregard what I'm about to say, lol). Kibble takes for-e-ver to digest, while fresh food, even cooked, takes a much shorter length of time. So if she is used to kibble twice a day, and then all of a sudden she's getting much faster to digest chicken and rice twice a day, it's not staying in her system nearly as long, hence the empty tummy pukeys.

My Aussie has always been bad about this. When I switched him from two meals a day to one, he got sicky every morning. I give him a small cookie every morning now and Voila! problem solved! It usually doesn't take much to fix the problem.