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Making your dog vomit, a good idea?

Making your dog vomit, a good idea?

Your pet has ingested a foreign body or a substance toxic to him:
Is it necessary to make him vomit and if so, how to do it without danger to his health?
In general, making your dog vomit shows real interest if you intervene in the two hours after ingestion of the substance to limit its intestinal absorption and therefore its toxicity to the body. For example, it is strongly recommended to make your animal vomit quickly in the event of ingestion of a toxic quantity of chocolate, rodenticide, paracetamol or ibuprofen.

On the contrary, it is completely contraindicated induce vomiting in the event of ingestion of a painful or sharp foreign body, which could create serious lesions of the walls of the stomach or the oesophagus. Just as in case of ingestion of irritating or caustic chemical products (laundry, detergents, household products for example) it is also not advisable to make your animal vomit under penalty of causing chemical burns of the mucous membrane of the animal. 'esophagus.
What to do at home?

Putting your fingers deep in your dog's mouth will do no good and can be dangerous for you and your dog. Just as the homemade recipes that can be found on the internet based on cooking salt or hydrogen peroxide are very ineffective or even toxic for your animal depending on the quantities used. All these methods are just a waste of time in the face ofurgency of the situation.

The solution is therefore to contact your attending veterinarian (or his on-call system) who will first inform you about the potential toxicity of the substance ingested by your animal and who will receive you if necessary as soon as possible in order to make your animal vomit. safely. Vomiting can be induced by injection over 2 to 15 minutes in dogs. In cats, the response time is often longer and uncertain. Your veterinarian can then prescribe activated charcoal to be administered every 4 to 6 hours for 24 hours to limit intestinal absorption and therefore the toxicity of what could not be expelled by vomiting.

In some cases, it is necessary to carry out gastric lavage under general anesthesia or to seek out the foreign body by fibroscopy or gastrotomy.
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