Poor Murphy, Sick on his Birthday :( UPDATE, UPDATE #2 UPDATE #3 FINAL UPDATE, I hope

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Today is our Murphy's 5th Birthday! And as some of you already know, he was born on my birthday, so its a double celebration! He usually gets Pupcakes and treats and visits from his brother and other family doodles.
But not this year. He and Bella did a bad thing last friday and pulled down a 5# bag of flour off the counter, and proceeded to tear it apart and spread it ALL OVER the house. After 2 hours of cleaning up the floors, most of which had a flour and water mixture which we all know makes PASTE! It appears they had emptied their water bowl and dribbled water all through the flour! Of course, eating flour will make you very thirsty so the next project was cleaning up their beards, paws and of all things thier tails. I guess they decided to lay in the flour and they were just so happy with themselves, they swished their tails back and forth in the wet flour too!!!!
Some of the dough balls were so deep and thick in their beards, I finally just started trimming beards and chins to get it out. It was thick in between their toe pads and as hard as dried paste would be.

I figured no harm though as I've never heard of an adverse reaction to flour, but then, no one on DK probably ever had this happen yet either. I fed them dinner as usual, we all go to bed and Murphy wakes up at 2:00 AM vomiting. Then the diarrhea started the next morning, and he ate breakfast (Now rice and boiled Chix) as usual, but then have runny stools and vomit dinner again, and then Sunday both he and Bella vomited late in the afternoon, and both had runny stools.
Monday, Bella is fine and Murphy vomits his breakfast twice, as he re-ate the first round, and then stools are fine and he keeps dinner down. Tues the same, and today the same. I gave him Pepto Bismol mon and tues after the morning vomits, so that might have helped keep his dinners down but I just don't get it. He is eating, drinking, has normal stools, is acting his old self, although he was a little whimpy on sat and sunday.
Can flour do anything to their stomachs that would cause this type of reaction so sporadically and without any other symptoms? I will try giving him the Pepto in the AM before breakfast tomorrow and give him just a little rice with some broth and see how it goes. Any other suggestions?
As for his birthday? Well, he still got pampered. He had a warm bath, and blow dry and a nice long doggy massage that he just melted into the floor while I did it. So not so bad for a birthday after all.

UPDATE:
Murphy did get sick with his morning meal and waited about 30 minutes and tried a little rice with broth, just so he wasn't hungry or have an empty stomach. He took that fine and has maintained it so far today. The Vet suggested Pepcid and even smaller, frequent meals of the chicken and rice, or even just the rice and broth for a few more days and watch. Of course she suggested blood work and tests for other things it could be, but he is stooling fine and drinking as usual, so I see no need for that as yet. Karen in her great wisdom suggested wheat intolerance, and that actually makes sense since he never gets wheat products. So we shall wait and see what the next few mornings bring and go from there. I will take him in if things change or if it continues for much longer. Thank you all for thinking of him.

UPDATE #2 DEC.21
I gave Murphy the Pepcid thurs night and friday morning. I waited one hour to feed breakfast and he did great. Chicken and rice stayed down. DH gave him dinner and that was fine as well, and did not give him a pepcid, but dinner really hasnt been the issue. DH, or I will call him Dr.DH said "he doesnt need pepcid, he's fine". So I didn't give it this morning......HOW STUPID AM I FOR LISTENING?????
So a few minutes after breakfast, he vomited it all again this morning. He got his Pepcid after that and will until I can get him to the Vet on monday as Im thinking I need some tests now. It;s been 8 days of vomiting. I can't imagine it's wheat sensitivity any longer. Otherwise, all is well and he is drinking, playing, pooping normally. What a strange thing.

UPDATE #3 DEC.26
We have had Murphy on Pepcid for one week today. He does well with his morning meals as long as he gets it beforehand and now we realized on tues night that he can get sick with dinner too, so we give the Pepcid every 12 hours. He had not been having a problem with his evening meal so we stopped giving the Pepcid twice a day, a few days beforehand, but he just wasnt quite ready for that to happen. He ate the flour on Dec. 13th, so it will be 2 weeks tomorrow and saturday will be 2 weeks of vomiting. He still is otherwise just fine in every other observable way.

FINAL UPDATE Jan 1
We stopped giving the Pepcid on Monday, dec 30 to test the waters and see if we needed to take him to the Vet for his Tues morning appt. He ate his regular kibble on monday, both meals and retained it just fine. Same with Tues morning and evening and this morning. I did cancel the Vet appt. as the problem seems to have resolved with the Pepcid and chicken and rice and small meals. Unless it happens again, I am going to chalk it up a Wheat overload and intolerance with ensuing GI inflammation. If it does reappear, I will just take him in as then I will know it is an ongoing problem and he will need a treatment plan. Thanks again everyone. All your suggestions and support helped us through this little dilemma .

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

. I understand completely about not wanting to leave him for hours alone at a vets office. Tara is very sensitive too and wouldn't do well under those circumstances either. I hope you guys have a good weekend and Murph is doing better by Tuesday (sooner would be even better!).

[Bonnie and Kona]

Sue, I have been off-line and am just reading this now! I am so sorry! What a horrible birthday present from your two. I'm really sad that Murphy got so very sick. I can see why you were wondering about blockage after cleaning up the water/flour paste! It sounds like a nightmare. I hope Murphy is well now and the house is de-floured. ugh. 

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

OMD what a disaster! poor you and poor Murphy! I bet that Bella was jealous and wanted it to be her birthday. I hope Murphy is feeling better!! poor guy :(

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Thanks Ladies, Murph is holding his own and doing fine with the Pepcid and chix and rice. I will not give him Pepcid tomorrow eve and/or Monday morning so I can see if he is still dealing with some GI issue and if so, I will take him in on tues. I'd like to know what it is I'm dealing with, if it's even possible to diagnose. If he does fine without the Pepcid then I guess I will have to decide then what to do. He continues to do very well otherwise.
Thanks Ricki, it's nice to hear that you understand what Im dealing with when you have a "sensitive" doodle.

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

This morning was our trial without giving Pepcid so that I can see if I need to 1. Take him to the vet for vomiting and 2. continue with the Pepcid. Although I am fine with giving it for several more weeks, I would like to know WHY?
But of course, No vomiting this morning. Still on Chix and rice with some sweet-potatoes and now Ive added his fish oil back in the morning meal. All has been going well with the exception of my coming home sat night from work and he was so excited he vomited up the water he had just had. It was totally out of nowhere. Empty stomach, just water. So the mystery continues and I will see how this eve meal and morning meal go. I made an appointment anyway just so I have it.

[Bonnie and Kona]

Thanks so much for the update. Always want to know how your doodles are doing. Big hugs to all of you.

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Thanks for the update. I hope your trial continues to go well. The vomiting water episode was strange though....hmmm..you're right it is certainly a mystery and it does cause me to see flour in a whole new light!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Yes, a bag of flour will never hold the same meaning for me again either! Yes, if this goes well, I think we might be out of the woods, and if not, he is going to the vet in the am. 2 meals to go, so we will see. THanks for caring and checking in,

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

I'm thinking this is good news.  If he does still have some inflammation in his GI track it doesn't surprise me that he might spit up the water when he got excited.  Murph is my "spitter".  It comes and goes with his other GI symptoms.  Spitting up water is not at all unusual for him...especially if he drinks too fast or runs right after he drinks.  I have to monitor his water.  He goes to the dish and stands to tell me he wants water.  I give him a little at a time and then I have to keep him from playing with (chasing) Guinness for awhile or it will come right back up.  This only works because he will only drink "fresh" water.  If it has been in the dish more than a few minutes he wants no part of it.  He's very "peculiar".

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Oh dear, these Murph's are sure a challenge! This was very new for him, but it makes sense that if there is still some inflammation that he'd spit up. And he was very excited, rushed to lap up water to get right back to me and vomited on the way!
I have an appointment at 9:30 tomorrow, and I will see how the next few meals go. One vomit and we are going! Ha, he will only drink "fresh" water. My guys would be out of luck there as we are gone 6-7 hours before anyone can come to re-fresh their water bowl. But I don't think they drink very much when we arent home anyway. Well, I will keep you all updated. Thanks for checking.

[Nicky, Riley & Boris]

Thanks for the updates. I really hope you get answers and that this us resoved very soon.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Ditto.