Vomitting

Hey there,   My boy is a Staffy Cross, approximately 2 years old (we adopted him so not completely sure).   We had him on Optimum dry food and his flatulence was terrible and would occasional regurgitate half digested food, sometimes barely digested.   I've switch over to Senistive dry food and his flatulence has completely stopped and stools improved however, his vomiting has increased over the last couple of days. He's been on this new food for 2 weeks and was fine up until yesterday. It's happening only in the morning after we wake up but multiple times until there's nothing left (3 times yesterday and twice this morning). This is prior to his morning feed.   None of his other routine has changed, he isn't in any pain, not coughing, no decrease in appetite and is a healthy weight of around 25kgs.   When we first picked him up, he seemed to struggle eating dry food but this is what he was eating prior to adopting him so we didn't want to change this. We instead added some water to his biscuits and he was able to eat better without struggling so we continued feeding him dry as he no longer had a problem.   I'm going to be taking him to the vet but seeing as there's a lot of things that could be wrong here, I would like to avoid ridiculous bills from tests trying to narrow down the problem by trying to get some advice before hand.   I'm not sure if it's a digestive issue but I don't believe so as the new food has fixed his flatulence problem.   Any advise would be amazing.   Thanks so much for your time

Hello!  And I'm sorry that you find yourself worrying about the possibility of a chronic case.   The first thing to establish might be whether the current sign could be vomiting or regurgitation so capturing a few episodes on film, or at least observing them closely before your vet appointment may be helpful.  They will want to know things like, whether there was definitely retching or lip licking beforehand, whether the stomach is 'throwing up' the food or whether the food just 'arrives' back in the patient's mouth.   However I wouldn't waste too much time on this; there can be secondary effects of both vomiting (dehydration; aspiration) and regurgitation (aspiration; oesophageal pain / stretching) so addressing the problem rapidly may be helpful.   In your position where money is a concern, I would make your vet aware of this from the beginning.  It may encourage them to target any tests they need to do, to be the most efficient to get the maximum possible value. Please do come back and share with us what is found.

My pet has never encountered this situation before. However, recently it also has the symptoms you mentioned. What should I do to help it?