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Feeding salt water to detoxify a dog when it is poisoned

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This article is provided by Veterinarian Dr. James Brown
Salt water cannot detoxify, and if you feed salt water in large amounts, it may cause salt poisoning in your dog. Dogs generally ingest poisons orally or through skin contact. If it is taken orally, the first step should be to induce vomiting. If it is discovered late, inducing vomiting is of little significance, and emergency medical treatment is required. If there is skin contact, rinse the skin with plenty of water as soon as possible to reduce the absorption of poisons as much as possible. Of course, after a dog is poisoned, the best way is to seek medical treatment promptly to avoid delaying the best time for treatment.

1. First aid measures after dog poisoning

1. Within 30 minutes after the dog eats poisonous food, you can try to give the dog emergency water to induce vomiting. Commonly used emetics include sodium carbonate. Salt and mustard.

2. If the dog regains consciousness, you can first give the dog a large amount of soda or concentrated warm salt water.

3. If vomiting cannot be induced or the effect after inducing vomiting is not good, gastric lavage is required. Wash repeatedly with 5 to 10 ml per kilogram of body weight. Commonly used are warm salt water, warm boiled water, Strong tea, etc.

4. Adsorbents such as activated carbon can be used to adsorb poisons on the surface of the medicine, but this is not effective for cyanide poisoning.

5. You can try giving laxatives to your dog to promote the elimination of toxins from the gastrointestinal tract.

6. If the dog ingests poison for more than 4 hours, when most of the poison has entered the duodenum, in order to prevent the bacteria in the intestine from continuing to grow and reproduce, oral administration of broad-spectrum antibiotics, such as Qing Damycin, chloramphenicol or tetracycline, etc.

7. In order to prevent dogs from going into shock, corticosteroids, prednisone, prednisolone and other drugs can be used.

Summary: If a dog is poisoned, the above first aid measures can be used as first aid reference, but it is still recommended that the owner take the dog to the hospital in time and a professional doctor will perform the operation according to the specific situation of the dog poisoning. Detoxification


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