Dog Intoxication with Household Products

Dogs getting Intoxicated by day-to-day products: Cyanide is very rapid in its toxic action. The initial symptoms are excitement, muscular shaking, disnea, eyelid dilatation, convulsions, coma and death. You can feel of smell of almonds. "Insecticides" of organic chloride or chloride hydrocarborates (DDT, dicofan, gamma – HCH, gamma – HDC, gamexan, lindane) and many other of these products are of variable intensity, although always toxic. The dog shows signs of restlessness and hyper sensibility, salivation, vomiting and incoordination. Sometimes, from a simple contact, they get severe dermatitis. In extreme cases, there are convulsions, blindness, coma and death.

"Organic phosphate", of which there are a whole bunch of products, produces similar symptoms. Besides, there is a hyperstimulation of the nervous system, plus abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, muscular shaking, disnea, stenosis, convulsions, coma and death.

"Strychnine" is many times used with criminal purposes against dogs. The symptoms generally manifest after half an hour with marked excitement, fright, rigidness and salivation. After that appear strong spasms, every time more and more frequent and intense, until death takes place due to a cerebral anorexia during a convulsion.

"Detergents and disinfectants" are so commonly used at home that they are many times in the reach of dogs. They can produce pus-infected skin injuries in the pads when walking on floors that are wet with these substances. The ever so common "bleach", besides being corrosive, is also a powerful toxic if ingested, like all the detergents and is effective in the minor scale, which produce salivation, depression and vomiting. According to the sensitivity of the animal, it can be more serious.

"Hexachlorophene", which is used to sometimes wash the breasts of milk-giving mothers, can produce the death of a puppy. There have also been cases of subsequent dermatitis when washing carpets with dry products. Medications, left in the region dogs, can produce toxic effect depending on the amount and substance ingested.

"Food" that is not apt for human consumption should never be given to dogs. Neither should you give dogs molluskicides; any and all products that are used to combat snails or worms are highly toxic for dogs. All "rat poison" is also extremely dangerous for dogs, actually it can be mortal. "Pesticides" that are used in the field to destroy vegetation like "diquat" (Reglone) and "paraquat" (Gramoxone) are extremely toxic for dogs, resulting in death between the 1st and the 10th day.

"Chlorophenoxide Acids", which are used to eliminate weed, are also freaking toxic. Dogs can ingest this by drinking solutions that are left lying around the garden or simply by licking the recipient in which the preparation has been made.

"Sodium chlorate", strong toxic for green plants, is also something to keep out of the reach of the dog. "Triazine herbicides", which are used to eliminate bad weed from the roads, can result toxic for the animal.