For right now I would try feeding her very small amounts spaced out and see if she continues to vomit. Also, my vet told me it's not an emergency unless they keep vomiting and vomiting after you STOP giving them food altogether. Like when someone has the flu or whatever and they keep vomiting and vomiting even when there's nothing left in their stomachs until they are just vomiting bile.
It could be as simple as she likes her new food and is eating too fast or too much. It could be a hairball. I would at least try waiting an hour and giving her just a tiny bit and see if she throws that up. If she does, but doesn't throw up again I would wait 2 hours and give her a tiny bit again and see what happens. But unless she's vomiting and can't stop I wouldn't take her to the emergency vet. They often do more harm than good.
If she is continuously vomiting I would leave her off any
food for a few hours and see if she stops before taking her in. That's just my opinion, but that's how I decide when vomiting is a problem here. Do you think she could have eaten something she wasn't supposed to that's causing a blockage of some sort?
I had one cat with kidney disease and ibd that would sometimes start vomiting and not stop. When that happened the vet would just give him some (? don't remember the name) to stop the vomiting. If you have to go to emergency I wouldn't let them do much more than that unless they really found something wrong and you had confidence in them.
hope this helps some.
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I thought Lucy was doing much better since being on raw food-- her chronic loose stool of the last few months went away after 1 day on the raw food and she was doing great. The starting the night before last she has been vomiting after each meal (with the possible exception of yesterday morning). Her stools are solid and once a day still, but very long and with a little blood on them. She is bright, happy, and hungry and asks for food a few minutes after vomiting. I am going to try to fast her for 24 hours to see if that helps. She had been down to 2.5 mg every other day of pred, which I put her on thinking it was IBD. Today was an off day but I gave her 5 mg anyway after she threw up her breakfast. I called the vet but he can not (or will not) see her until Wednesday and said to bring her to the ER, which is 45 minutes away and I have never been there (just moved back to NJ in August) and Lucy hates the car and the vet and I am not sure what an ER would do anyway-- x-rays or something? The vet who treats our sheep was here today to do acupuncture on her and gave Lucy a physical examination and could not feel any masses or any thickening of her intestines, but said this does not mean there is not something in the lining somewhere, inflammation or cancer or something else.Any suggestions, and prayers/thoughts, would be appreciated.Thanks,Michelle
