Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

RE: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

Hannah Wynne Richards — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:31:18 GMT

Cats are so very very susceptible to lily poisoning.

Wynne

RE: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

Aine Seavers — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 01:33:57 GMT

Its a big problem here, so much so Sydney Uni's Richard Malik visits the local flower markets and sticks the free posters below up on posts around the place.That said many horticultural colleges include the info in their teaching and main garden centers do display the notices as well. I dont think OP were used in this case- these cats do seizure just from the lily ingestion. The posters from CVE below are free to download and use in your practice.

22) Center for Veterinary Education. Sydney. Lily Poisoning Posters and Stickers. http://www.cve.edu.au/lilypoisoningpostersandstickers. Accessed May 2015.

) Hadley RM^, Richardson JA, Gwaltney-Brant SM et al. A retrospective study of daylily toxicosis in cats. Vet Hum Toxicol l. 2003; 45:38-9.

23) UC Veterinary Medical Center, San Diego. Lilies suck, Lilies Kill Cats. http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/whatsnew/images/liliespoison_flyer.

24) International society of feline vet medicine, International cat care organisation division. Lily Toxicity. http://www.icatcare.org/cat-campaigns/lily-toxicity

Re: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:18:09 GMT

[quote user="Bob Russell"]

Nationwide! There had been cases where children had ingested the plant as well!

I have to admit I was really impressed and did go to the local B&Q to check!!!

This was 25 years ago!!

[/quote]I feel you need some recognition for this Bob.

Re: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

Bob Russell — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:35:36 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]

[quote user="Bob Russell"]B&Q removed all of these plants from sale until they could relabel them with appropriate warnings after I told them! [/quote]Wow that's pretty impressive Bob - was that just your local branch or did they make that a national protocol.

But back to the OP. I would say in retrospect that it was more likely OP poisoning as the most likely sequel to lily poisoning if it was so badly effected it was seizureing I would have thought would be renal failure. The one and only (known) exposure to lilies I've seen was a cat covered in pollen and sneezing from inhalation of the same. The owners were in a panic and wanted 'emergency' treatment. When I quoted £100 to put it on a drip and observe overnight it suddenly wasn't such an emergency and they took it home to wash it. Next time I saw it was for its booster - it never showed any symptoms.

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Nationwide! There had been cases where children had ingested the plant as well!

I have to admit I was really impressed and did go to the local B&Q to check!!!

This was 25 years ago!!

Re: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

Thomas Johnson — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:09:16 GMT

[quote user="mariette asselbergs"]

VPIS was contacted and advised no lipids (which I had thought would be appropriate in neurological symptoms of possibly toxic origen),

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Intralipid is only useful if the toxin is fat soluble, so if the toxin in lilies isn't fat soluble it's not going to be any use.

Not much else to add really, and I guess you'll never know if it was the lilies or something that had been sprayed on them that caused the seizures.

Re: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

Anthony Dennison — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:06:15 GMT

I'm writing a case report on AKI at the moment and one of the papers I read notes that 36% of cats that presented with Lily toxicity had neurological symptoms

Re: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

Martin Atkinson — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:15:59 GMT

Re: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

mariette asselbergs — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:11:30 GMT

[quote user="Bob Russell"]

Acute renal failure, reversed with IVFT. We had a cat that was poisoned by a pot plant from B&Q. Managed to live another 17 years before everything packed up at 20 yrs old! If you get in early the kidneys seem to return to normal rapidly. Her BUN was 60!!

B&Q removed all of these plants from sale until they could relabel them with appropriate warnings after I told them!

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Yes I am familiar with that scenario, but seizures?

Mariette

Re: Kitten seizuring after eating Lillies

Bob Russell — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:00:52 GMT

B&Q removed all of these plants from sale until they could relabel them with appropriate warnings after I told them!