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How to Identify the Symptoms of Poisoning in Dogs

2020-08-15 / 1232 Read

As the saying goes: Disease comes from the mouth. This sentence is not only a wise saying for humans, but also for animals.

I believe that many dog owners should have heard news stories about some dogs being poisoned and killed by accidentally eating some food that should not be eaten. In fact, diet requires 120,000 attention, otherwise your dog will leave you if you are not careful.

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Poisoning by chlorpyrifos

This is a powerful rodenticide It is a white, odorless, crystalline powder, which increases the permeability of pulmonary capillaries, and a large amount of plasma enters the lung tissue, resulting in pulmonary edema. After a few minutes to a few hours after the dog ingests, the dog will vomit, foam at the mouth, then diarrhea, cough, difficulty breathing, depression, visible mucous membrane cyanosis, and foamy blood-colored mucus from the nostrils. Generally, coma and lethargy occur 10-12 hours after ingestion, and a few die within 2-4 hours after ingestion. This poison has no specific antidote, and can be used to induce vomiting, gastric lavage, catharsis and diuresis.

Organic fluoride rodenticide poisoning

This is a highly toxic drug, and the sick dog is restless, vomiting, and gastrointestinal function 2-3 days after eating Hyperactivity, running around, barking, paroxysmal convulsions all over the body, lasting about 1 minute, and finally death.

Zinc phosphide poisoning

This is a commonly used rodenticide and is a grey powder. A few days after ingestion, it mixes with water and stomach acid in the stomach, releasing phosphine gas, causing severe gastroenteritis. The sick dog has abdominal pain, no food, continuous vomiting, coma and lethargy, and rapid and deep breathing. Choking, diarrhea, blood in stool.

Organophosphorus pesticide poisoning

Organophosphorus is widely used in agriculture as pesticides, such as trichlorfon, dimethoate, dichlorvos and so on. Accidental ingestion can cause a lot of salivation, tearing, diarrhea, abdominal pain, urinary incontinence, dyspnea, cough, cyanosis of the conjunctiva, muscle twitching, and then paralysis, miosis, and coma. Most of them died due to breathing disorders.

Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Poisoning

Such pesticides include DDT, hexahexahexanol, etc. Cause the dog to be extremely excited, manic, restless or highly depressed, the head and neck muscles first tremble, then spread to the whole body, muscle spasms and contractions, and then depression; continuous birth, no or little food, diarrhea.

Phenol poisoning

Phenolic preparations are widely used in public health disinfection, and in veterinary clinical work, common carbolic acid, lysol, guaiacol , xylene and other preparations. As a corrosive and sterilant, phenol can disinfect floors, kennels, and large table utensils. If a certain amount is licked by dogs, symptoms of poisoning will occur. Phenolic preparations can cause nervous system damage. Skin in contact with phenolic preparations is red and oozing. Sick dog lack of energy, vomiting, tonic spasm, paralysis.

Chocolate (caffeine poisoning)

Symptoms of poisoning:

Severe drooling, frequent urination , dilated pupils, rapid heartbeat, vomiting and diarrhea, high energy, muscle tremors, and finally coma.

Onion (disulfide poisoning)

Symptoms of poisoning: weight loss, fatigue, Lazy. Frequent wheezing, depression, rapid pulse, weakness, film-like discharge from gums and mouth.

Liver (vitamin A poisoning)

Symptoms of poisoning: deformed bones, elbows And the rapid bone development of the spine and weight loss. Anorexia, no appetite.

Bone (not poisonous, but can scratch the esophagus and cause suffocation)

Choking response:

pale and blue Gum, gasping, open mouth breathing, scratching face, shallow and slow breathing, unconsciousness, dilated pupils, and even shock.

Raw eggs (resulting in vitamin H deficiency)

Vitamin H deficiency: hair loss, weakness, stunted growth, skeletal deformities.

Grape (cause kidney failure)

Symptoms of poisoning: vomiting, diarrhea, dogs become depressed, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, clinically oliguria in severe cases , anuria, and eventually renal failure.