Poisonings

The general symptoms of the poisonings include nervous, digestive, respiratory symptoms, alterations of the corporal temperature and hemorrhages.
If the exact poison is identified, it is come to read the indications of the package that contains it and the indications are followed the foot of the letter for this type of emergencies, while it is called to the veterinary doctor. The urgency treatment can be divided in the first minutes in which the patient is due to stabilize, in the first hours during which she is avoided that the toxic is continued absorbing and in the rest of the first day where tends to increase the elimination of the toxic through it tinkles it. The most frequent poisonings include the lead, the strychnine, the ivermectina, the anticoagulants, the organ fosforados, carbamatos, the piretrinas and piretroides.

Treatment

* Call to the veterinarian and soon it makes first aid
* To identify the toxic. (it does not make first aid if it does not have it identified)
* To diminish its absorption. Drained of stomach. (to induce he I vomit with heavy salt or 10 oxygenated water vol. 10 doses of mililiter each 10 kg by mouth). This it can be ineffective if they have passed but of 4 hours from the ingestion, unless it were mixed with food or one knows that it delays the gastric drained one. It is contraindicated when the ingested agent is corrosive, a mineral acid, strychnine or distilled of the HD petroleum.
* To increase its elimination (to never give him to mineral oil or petroleum jelly kitchen oil.
* It is had to wash to the patient because the agents who can produce sistémica toxicity by transcutánea absorption understand chlorinated insecticides and organofosforados, halogenados, caustic and corrosive hydrocarbons. The toxics introduced in the eyes must wash with great amounts of water or physiological serum,

More common toxics and approach of the treatment
Cumarínicos Warfarina and derivatives: Found in raticidas. Its antidote is the administration of vitamin K to 150 doses from 25 to mg IV; the speed does not have to exceed 10 mg per minute.
Insecticides with organic phosphates: To administer to sulphate of atropine and chloride of pralidoxima.
Heavy metals: To administer quelantes agents.
Methylic alcohol (metanol): The treatment is the etílico alcohol administration (ethanol) to avoid the formation of toxic metabolitos of the ingested alcohol.

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