![]() Advice to health care professionals and the general public.Help with a poisoning emergency, which can often be solved over the phone rather than calling 911 or visiting the emergency room.1 Even health care professionals who are seeking treatment advice for their patients consult poison center experts they account for about 16 percent of all calls. More than 70 percent of people who call a poison center get the help they need over the telephone without having to go to a doctor or the hospital. Specially trained poison experts at these centers-nurses, pharmacists, and doctors-can be reached by calling the toll-free Poison Help line ( 1-80), which connects you to your local poison center. Quick thinking, remaining calm, making the right phone calls, and seeking medical treatment immediately all helped this story to have a happy ending.Every day of the year, 24 hours a day, the nation’s 55 poison centers help with poisoning emergencies and provide information to help prevent poisonings. And not all owners are lucky enough to catch their pets in the act of eating poison. This may not seem like a story about luck, but it was fortunate that the rodenticide Luke ate was an anticoagulant product and not one that uses bromethalin. During that appointment, Luke’s doctor was happy to tell his owner Luke was a perfectly healthy puppy. This included giving Luke vitamin K daily and making a follow-up visit with his regular veterinarian. Luke’s owner followed the veterinarian’s instructions carefully. ![]() The veterinarian induced vomiting until Luke’s stomach was empty and confirmed that he had eaten several pellets. Upon arrival, Luke was weighed and taken back to the exam room. With instructions to get to the clinic right away, Luke was immediately loaded into the car for a 10 minute drive to the clinic. The poison container was quickly located and while she called a poison helpline, the homeowner called his local veterinary clinic. She rushed him inside and confirmed with the homeowner that the green pellets were in fact rodenticide. The owner immediately pulled him away and removed the pellets he hadn’t swallowed from his mouth. She turned to find him with his face in a plate of rodenticide. As she looked for a towel to wipe Luke’s paws before she took him off the leash, the owner heard him eating something. While visiting family out of town, his owner brought him inside through the garage. When he was just 6 months old, this pit bull mix got into some trouble. Bromethalin is a fast-acting neurotoxin.īecause consumers may have anticoagulant and/ or bromethalin products in their homes, having the container available to provide information to poison hotline professionals and your veterinarian is immensely helpful and will determine the appropriate treatment for your pet in the event of accidental ingestion. There is also no test to detect it-except for a postmortem exam. The new generation of rodenticides currently on the market often use bromethalin, a toxin for which there is no antidote. These products are no longer available at retailers. ![]() The manufacturer of D-Con products has complied with the new EPA regulations and has stopped producing prohibited anti-coagulant products. Pellets and other forms of bait that cannot be secured in bait stations are prohibited. Manufacturers must also contain bait in tamperresistant bait stations. Recent regulation changes by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) require that manufacturers of rodenticides for consumer use stop using second-generation or long-acting anticoagulants. Contact a pet poison hotline immediately and seek veterinary treatment. There is little time for error if bromethalin is ingested by a pet.
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