Tuffy's vet was out of town on Friday so we'll be touching base on Monday. If for some reason the stool sample comes back negative should I push to give him the flagyl (with or without the Albon)? Or ask for a different kind of fecal test...?

The Diabac has been working great on firming up Tuffy's but that's just to deal with bacterial diarrhea symptoms caused by E.coli, Salmonella, diet or water changes, environment
change, stress, food allergies and indiscretions in diet. I wish I could give him this stuff every day but it's only meant for short term use...

is often a problem in litters and hard to clear up as they continue to pass it back and forth. My vet usually prescribes flagyl and albon--along with pectin based med--together,

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is a sulfa drug and for some reason has a very soothing effect on the GI tract. It is often prescribed along with Flagyl--which targets the giardia among other things.

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in a stool sample than coccidia. Once it took 3 different samples to determine that my dogs had it(3 consecutive days) pretty long when you are dealing with diarrhea in multiple dogs.

IF your vet is prescribing them, of course follow his/her advice however my earlier comment about concerns re using both at same time is that dosing would need adjustment so the dog is not overmedicated!

While both medications are basically antibiotics they are usually used to treat different problems. Albon is used for several types of internal infections but we often hear of it being used to kill off coccidia (a persistent internal parasite). Flagyl is also used for several types of internal infections but we often hear of it used to kill off giardia (a different internal parasite). What you don't want to do is use both at the same time, or you will be overdosing your dog with possible serious consequences, so it really is advisable to have another fecal exam to eliminate parasites altogether as the cause...and they can be persistent and require more than one dose of medication to get them out! If its some GI infection/bug from drinking dirty water/snow, eating something he found in the yard, etc. then the Flagyl would probably be the drug of choice.

mine does. I always keep a bottle of metronadozale (flagyl) on hand for the runs. Ollie has had hemmoragic gastroenteritis in the past, so I need to stop it right away with him. It works really well. I've never used Albon, so I can't comment on that one.

Kathy, Ollie and Chester