nose bleeding again - Page 2

Good to hear that he's having some improvement!

I know this is an old thread. I assume the dog is gone by now. If he was really 18 years old, that was just amazing, in itself. Blood loss in itself would not be a bad way to go. The dog would just feel woozy and sort of fade to black.

Vitamin K has the clotting agent and is found in dark, leafy greens. You can give some, flash cooked and mashed, in small quantities, added to the food. Collards, turnip greens, mustard greens, spinach, all should work, but cook with as little water as possible and include the water. Do not overcook. Heat destroys vitamins, and most of the vitamins in veggies are water soluble and will stay in the cooking water, if you use too much, especially.

I've also had good luck with aloe vera gel or juice, and / or a tea of certain kinds of leaves or roots of herbs that contain allantoin, known to promote healing. I had a bitch, once, who was hemorrhaging from the lower intestine (possibly a hemorrhoid, but vet said it was parvovirus),and passing LARGE amounts of clotted blood. I gave her a tea (I remember it was comfrey root, but several herbs would do, if they contain sufficient levels of allantoin). The bleeding stopped within a half an hour and did not return.

Green tea also seems to have some really good tonic and protective properties and can be given whenever there is a malaise. Dogs are not vegetarians, per se, because they cannot break down the cellulose plant cell walls, but wild canids and carnivores will often eat some of the stomach contents of their prey, taking advantage of the predigested plant matter.