What to do if the dog got poisoned

What to do if the dog got poisoned

The causes of poisoning at dogs can be the most various. It both low-quality forage, and stale food. Some owners can not notice how during walk their pet selects a skin from sausage or the herring head. All this with ease can cause disorder of digestive tract in a dog.

For a start estimate weight of poisoning. If tears a dog at first the fodder masses, and then slime, bile or blood, its gripes, diarrhea, the periods of concern are replaced by the apathy periods - it is sharp poisoning. In this case immediately show an animal to the veterinarian who will appoint the correct treatment depending on with what your animal got poisoned.

If there is no opportunity to go to the veterinarian immediately, wash out to a dog a stomach. To cause vomiting, give to an animal a large amount of water or weak solution of potassium permanganate (it has to be light pink color). For this purpose throw back to a dog the head and insert between molars the syringe or the syringe with water (certainly, the syringe has to be without needle). To cause vomiting, you can give to an animal ipecacuanha root tincture, press fingers on a language root, as a last resort, to give a mustard spoon. After that give to an animal vaseline oil – it envelops walls of a stomach and interferes with absorption of the majority of poisons. Do not replace vaseline oil vegetable at all – it has an opposite effect! And to bring a dog to veterinary clinic at the first appeared opportunity.If at a dog not sharp poisoning, you can give her usual activated carbon which is available in each first-aid kit, from calculation one tablet on ten kilograms of mass of an animal. Also at poisonings well helps Enterosgel. For couple of days an animal it is possible to put into a diet. And still it is worth consulting with the veterinarian, many dangerous diseases can look as banal poisoning in the beginning. Sometimes, that dogs eat the poison which is carefully left by municipal services for rats. If it happened to your favourite, in two-three hours he will have a paralysis of respiratory bodies – the animal chokes, from a mouth there is a foam, legs give away, convulsions and vomiting begin. In that case the dog needs to enter urgently B6 vitamin at the rate on the mass of an animal and to see immediately the veterinarian. Otherwise death comes in 4-5 hours.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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