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My senior Pomeranian has constant bloody diarrhea. What to do?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Pomeranian | Male | neutered | 12 years and 8 months old | 10 lbs

I have a Pomeranian he is 13 years old. Is it common to have constant dyaria. Sometimes it's just blood n mucus. Had him to vets 3 times in last two months

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Answered By Karly Macon, DVM, MS, CVA Certified Veterinary Acupuncturist

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Published on July 25th, 2017

Constant diarrhea is never normal. Make sure that your vet has done a fecal float and fecal smear to see if Taz has worms or other parasites. If he has been dewormed already, he may need to be on a drug called metronidazole for a week or so. Also, probiotics are very helpful for diarrhea. Taz may also need to be on a veterinary prescription food allergy diet like Hills z/d for several weeks. If all these treatments fail, your vet may want to consider testing for intestinal lymphoma or inflammatory bowel disease. Hope that helps!

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    Answered By Megan, DVM, CVA

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    Poor Taz! No this is not normal. There are MANY causes for chronic diarrhea including parasites, metabolic disease, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, pancreatitis, food intolerance, and much more. I would talk to you vet about checking for parasites including giardia. You may ask for them to deworm him anyways as worms don't always shed their eggs and can sometimes be difficult to diagnose. I would also think about doing bloodwork, a pancreatitis test, and abdominal X-rays or ultrasound to look for any abnormalities that could be causing the diarrhea. I think since he has had some many bouts of diarrhea in such a short period, more diagnostics need to be done to find the root cause. if all these test come back normal, you can have a GI panel sent off to test for cobalamin, folate and pancreas function. I hope this helps.

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