Most unusual toxicity call

Re: Most unusual toxicity call

Mark Frost — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:42:42 GMT

[quote user="Nicola Lawlor"]

[quote user="Helen Wallace"]Now I could understand the dig and the fruesemide but the with the 5mg vetmedin tablets I really thought she would have noticed something [/quote]

I always wonder why owners insist on calling the vet rather than a doctor regarding their own ingestion of these things - I'm sure they wouldn't call the doctor for advice if the dog ate their human prescriptions?

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A few years ago I spoke to an owner who had accidentally eaten her dogs Drontal tablets, and had phoned her doctor first but had helpfully been advised to phone the vet!!! I said I'd try VPIS as she was concerned and they looked on their larger human database for me and said it'd be fine!

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Ian Mostyn — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:02:37 GMT

[quote user="James Laidlaw"]

They have bears in Hull???

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Tigers, Sharks & Robins in Hull but don't remember any bears. I guess the traps were an effective deterent. A number of the locals had large knives and dealt with any stray wildlife / pet cats / Leeds United fans promptly so I always felt safe from animal attack. At the practice we used the old razor wire around the walls technique and that seemed to help. I also got to know the desk sergeant at the local Police station very well.

Ian

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Jo Cobbett — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:41:04 GMT

When I was a student we had a dog that was referred for hypercalcemia that the referring vets couldn't get to the bottom of. Once admitted it got rapidly better with very little treatment. Turned out the dog had been licking the owner's psoriasis cream (vitamin D) off her legs...

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Malcolm Ness — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:28:24 GMT

[quote user="James Laidlaw"]They have bears in Hull???[/quote]

No. The trapping policy is effective.

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James Laidlaw — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:52:02 GMT

They have bears in Hull???

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Ian Mostyn — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:49:26 GMT

When I was working in Hull we would get one or two cannabis cases in each year, but that probably says something about the area I was working in. I seem to get a lot of dogs eating anti-depressants, tubes of skin cream. I get used to looking them up as I have never heard of most of them. I have had a couple of cases where the husband and dog have swapped tablets but they actually turned out to be on exactly the same drugs. Not technically toxicity but again in Hull I would get an annual visit from the local RSPCA Inspector with a cat caught in a bear trap. It is amazing how little damage they do to a cats leg but they make a fascinating demonstration with a pencil!

Ian

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Alet Engelbrecht — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:18:16 GMT

While I was still at Vet School, a friend told me about their valuable working border collie showing neuro signs - ataxia, staggering, vomiting. She raced through to the nearest vet 2 hrs away (rural SA) only to arrive with a normal dog. Same story the next morning. On the third day, she followed the dog and saw that the shearers were mixing beer with their porridge and the dog was finishing the bowls and had just got hammered. Very embarrasing for my friend, a fellow vet student! Sorry, doc, just wasted your time with a drunk dog...

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Charlotte Marshall — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:57:06 GMT

Had a dog once, Labrador of course, that had the triple whammy of eating the remains of a chocolate cake which contained raisins and was soaked in alcohol.

Some colleagues had to deal with two puppies which had drunk a bottle of Baileys between them. Cue two very drunk puppies semi collapsed vomiting up stuff smelling of Baileys apparently.

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Bob Russell — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:02:16 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]

[quote user="Bob Russell"]I gave instructions that the owner should not panic because they are generally not particularly dangerous but we should still check the dog over![/quote]

erm...playing devil's advocate here, but what exactly did you expect to find? I must admit when we get these phone calls about contraceptive pills (regularly, as you have found) we just warn them there may be hair loss etc but only to bring in if it becomes ill in any way. I wouldn't expect to find any symptoms at all the same day.

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Possibly an element of covering ones rear but I do prefer to check any dog that has ingested any medicines. I also want to check what is left of the packaging - if they are going to bring that down they might as well bring the dog! I accept ingested packaging is as likely or more to cause problems than the pills so I do check for abdominal discomfort at the same time!

Would your GP/A&E want to see a child that had ingested birth control pills? I bet they would!

Re: Most unusual toxicity call

James Laidlaw — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:41:26 GMT

After the discussions on another thread about MCT margins, guess what was on my operations list yesterday. Need to learn to keep my mouth (and keyboard) shut...

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Michael Woodhouse — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:05:12 GMT

[quote user="Neil Wheadon"] I've never had a birth control tablet ingestion, but since this post I've had 2 in 4 days and crikey did I sound knowledgable 'Yes colleagues have seen this too, don't worry madam........'[/quote]

That will be the effects of the female hormones on you.

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Neil Wheadon — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:16:49 GMT

[quote user="Bob Russell"]Birth control pills seem to be our boring routine ingested tablet.[/quote]

Spooky or what. I've never had a birth control tablet ingestion, but since this post I've had 2 in 4 days and crikey did I sound knowledgable 'Yes colleagues have seen this too, don't worry madam........'

My only concern is there were posts on GDV's and I saw 2 soon after

What next? things come in three's

Eeek and it's only 0116 and it's Friday and this is Vets Now....

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Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:50:57 GMT

[quote user="Bob Russell"]I gave instructions that the owner should not panic because they are generally not particularly dangerous but we should still check the dog over![/quote]

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Mark Hedberg — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:36:13 GMT

[quote user="Nicola Lawlor"]

[quote user="Helen Wallace"]Now I could understand the dig and the fruesemide but the with the 5mg vetmedin tablets I really thought she would have noticed something [/quote]

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Because, generally speaking, we'll pick up the phone and actually know what we're talking about! (Sorry, I shouldn't rag on GP's but it's so easy sometimes!)

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Nicola Lawlor — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:25:37 GMT

[quote user="Helen Wallace"]Now I could understand the dig and the fruesemide but the with the 5mg vetmedin tablets I really thought she would have noticed something [/quote]

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Bob Russell — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:12:09 GMT

Birth control pills seem to be our boring routine ingested tablet. I had a letter of complaint (the only one so far in 2012!) from a pi**ed off client who felt it was inappropriate for me to suggest seeing the dog and tablet pack (and charge a consultation charge).

Instead he thought I should have charged him £10 for a phone call! I was interrupted mid consultation by the receptionist and I gave instructions that the owner should not panic because they are generally not particularly dangerous but we should still check the dog over!

Dog was fine, bill was not apparently as I did not need to see the dog (according to owner).

Damned if you do, damned if you don't!

Re: Most unusual toxicity call

Lorna McHardy — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:56:40 GMT

[quote user="Helen Wallace"]

Hello, um.... I've just taken my dogs heart tablets instead of my own... will that be okay?

Now I could understand the dig and the fruesemide but the with the 5mg vetmedin tablets I really thought she would have noticed something

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Many years ago:

<voice that sounds as though it ought to be on the overbearing side and is currently a touch hesitant and a little sheepish> "Hello, I'm sorry to disturb you at this hour... but the thing is... well... um... <in a rush> I've just given my husband his cough medicine and the thing is, it's hibiscrub, we had it for the dog's skin and what I want to know is, will it harm him?"

Probably not, but he'll have the cleanest stomach in the whole of Norfolk :0))

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Helen Wallace — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:07:57 GMT

Hello, um.... I've just taken my dogs heart tablets instead of my own... will that be okay?

Now I could understand the dig and the fruesemide but the with the 5mg vetmedin tablets I really thought she would have noticed something

Re: Most unusual toxicity call

Rob Reid — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:31:09 GMT

Several years ago, had a young professional couple bring their Rottie in that had eaten 'an eighth' the previous night. Cue one very stoned (and later one very hungry) Rottie....

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Busybee — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:33:19 GMT

Best one I had was the labrador (obviously) who had eaten 8 freshly baked chocolate muffins in those silicone plastic cases - after a bit of ApoGo, dog brought back 8 nearly perfectly preserved chocolate muffins still in their colourful silicone cases, now slightly diluted in colour.....and then tried to eat them again.

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Utlendigur — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:45:43 GMT

Most helpful toxicity call...

Small pug puppy (heart sinks), eaten at least 5 ibuprofen capsules (heart sinks further).....owner arrives at practice and informs us that while he was on the phone the pup decided to eat a bar of soap and had vomited the lot back on the bathroom floor

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Lorna McHardy — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:09:30 GMT

[quote user="Mark Rowland"]

I can trump that with the terrapin that ate a puffer fish........... It died about an hour later

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That made me laugh, and it's such a waste of a perfectly good terrapin!

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Lorna McHardy — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:07:37 GMT

Eight teabags... small JRT. Owner watched her bouncing off the walls all night, and eventually decided to phone us around midmorning. Aaaarrrggghhhhhh etc. etc. etc.

Oh, and 40mgs worth of owners buprenorphine tablets. They gave him soapy water to make him vomit, which apparently, made him bring up some foam and burp a lot. Having been advised to bring the dog in rather swiftly, and gone through all the where are you and what will it cost and yes, we'll be there as soon as, they never turned up!

It's been the week for toxicities! Just wish I could have done something constructive about them.

Re: Most unusual toxicity call

Neil Wheadon — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:23:02 GMT

Sorry typo

Float to the surface, shades of Finding Nemo here

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Neil Wheadon — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:22:12 GMT

Did it float to te surface?