_ Em breve traduzido para o Portugûes_
Medical
Sweet poison grapes
( by Barbara Welsch - First printed in the magazine " Dog Partners " )
Grapes and raisins can be used for the dogs to be pure poisen.
To warn independently an American ( ASPCA´s - Animal Poison Control Center )
and a British ( Veterinary Poison Information Service ) Center for poisoning seizures in animals. Both centers collect all data on poisoning in animal, they are transmitted by veterinarians.
Strange poisoning
In analizing this data, the researchers met in a strange poisoning in 19 dogs.
All the dogs had varying large quantities of grapes or raisins eaten- delicacies that you really would classify as harmless.
The symptoms were similar to the Dogs:
A few hours after eating the fruit erbrachen the animals and were anorexia.
Diarrhea and abdominal pain were some dogs in one. After 24 hours showed the most severly affected dogs, sympyoms of renal failure. They were very quiet until lethargic and could no or only little water can.
When blood tests, the attending veterinarians addition dramatically increased kidney values also hypercalcemia ( too much calcium in the blood ) notes.
Of the ten American dogs survived only five animals.
When grapes on a suspected poisoning, the dogs quickly for detoxification to be vomiting. possibly, can be activated with the poison in the intestine bind.
Thereafter, the veterinarian, especially the threat of preventing kidney failure.
In severe poisoning, the dog from the vet hospital and least 48 hours under the control of the blood supply with infusions.
Raisins are possibly dangerous
Yet we know very little about the cause of the poisoning.
Indeed, except fot the consumption of grapes she had no similarities to the
poisoning cases occurred not in a specific region.
Grapes and raisins belonged to different varieties and were sprayed with neither funds not other chemicals or heavy metals overly burdened. Therefore, the scientists assume that this is indeed the fruit is the poisoning of the dogs triggered. You suspect that raisins even more dangerous than fresh grapes because they are the toxic substance in concentrated form.
So far there are only estimates
Also, the dose, the grapes benefit from the poison for the dog, is not yet know.
The American researchers estimate that converted 11.6g of grapes per kilogram of body weight of the dog to poisoning symptoms can lead ( ie a 20kg dog approximately 232g grapes). I Britain, the scientists determined that about 14g raisins / kg dog to a death in a Labrador retriever led.
Importantly, the dogs not only on the taste to bring so that they do not even use.
Qua Out 01, 2008 1:38 pm