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Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / February 2007Dog ate gum, now what?
Maui possibly got into some of my mom's gum that has Xylitol in it. I am not sure how much he got if any. ER vet #1 says call animal poison number. ER vet #2 says don't induce vomit cause he could choke on the gum. The internet says induce vomiting. What should I do? This all happened about 10 minutes ago. How much did he get one piece or a whole pack? One piece I don't think I'd worry just watch him close. If it was a whole pack I'd be more inclined to make him throw up. Celeste > Maui possibly got into some of my mom's gum that has Xylitol in it. I am > not sure how much he got if any. ER vet #1 says call animal poison > number. ER vet #2 says don't induce vomit cause he could choke on the gum. > The internet says induce vomiting. What should I do? This all happened > about 10 minutes ago. > How much did he get one piece or a whole pack? One piece I don't think > I'd worry just watch him close. If it was a whole pack I'd be more > inclined to make him throw up. I decided to induce vomiting and hope that if he got any, he wouldn't choke. I gave him the peroxide but no vomiting occured. He definately swallowed it (the peroxide) though. He did burp a few times after the peroxide but still no vomiting. I will continue to watch him. Should I have given more peroxide. He's 13 pound and got 1 teaspoon. Will the peroxide harm him if he doesn't throw up? >> Maui possibly got into some of my mom's gum that has Xylitol in it. I am >> not sure how much he got if any. ER vet #1 says call animal poison >> number. ER vet #2 says don't induce vomit cause he could choke on the >> gum. The internet says induce vomiting. What should I do? This all >> happened about 10 minutes ago. I've never had a dog not throw up from peroxide. I'd wait a bit and see if he does. My dogs are both 50 lbs plus and I've given them a good size syringe full at a time so I would think that a tsp would be more than enough for a 13lb dog. The last time I had to do this with Lady it took about 15 minutes till it really upset her stomach and she then threw up. Dogs will get into the darnest things.........:) I know my Lady is 3 and forever chewing and eating things. I found what was left of a felt tip marker in the kitchen yesterday afternoon. It had fallen off the wipe off board and wouldn't you know she just had to chew it up. Celeste >> How much did he get one piece or a whole pack? One piece I don't think >> I'd worry just watch him close. If it was a whole pack I'd be more [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >>> gum. The internet says induce vomiting. What should I do? This all >>> happened about 10 minutes ago. > Maui possibly got into some of my mom's gum that has Xylitol in it. I am > not sure how much he got if any. ER vet #1 says call animal poison > number. ER vet #2 says don't induce vomit cause he could choke on the gum. > The internet says induce vomiting. What should I do? This all happened > about 10 minutes ago. I don't want to cause panic, but... this is my husband - a veterinarian - talking over my shoulder: Take him to the emergency NOW. Xylitol can cause liver and kidney failure with clinical symptoms showing as soon as (but not necessarily) 10 minutes. We had a patient of ours die last month from ingesting a xylitol based gum. GO. >> Maui possibly got into some of my mom's gum that has Xylitol in it. I am >> not sure how much he got if any. ER vet #1 says call animal poison [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > I'll second that. Get the xylitol out of the dog and if that means emergency clinic, so be it. Regardless, he needs to be monitored over the next few hours for hypoglycemia then to make sure he doesn't go into liver failure. The liver failure can happen up to a couple days after ingestion and, in the latest journal reports, some of those dogs didn't show signs of hypoglycemia. You never know when this will happen. Take the dog for care tonight! Sandy, DVM > I'll second that. Get the xylitol out of the dog and if that means > emergency clinic, so be it. Regardless, he needs to be monitored over > the next few hours for hypoglycemia then to make sure he doesn't go into > liver failure. The liver failure can happen up to a couple days after > ingestion and, in the latest journal reports, some of those dogs didn't > show signs of hypoglycemia. You never know when this will happen. Wow. The things you learn hanging out on news groups. I never in a million years would have guessed that xylitol would be particularly toxic. Do we know why? (I brief google search says we don't but the most recent article I've looked at it 2004). What kind of quantities are we talking as far as toxicity goes? Do I have to worry about that one stick of gum he picked up on the pavement, and swallowed before I got to him? A pack of gum? A case? (note in my case this is purely hypothetical) Dale It's definitely an "up and coming" toxicity -- probably related more to the increasing amounts of sugar free products that are out there than to anything else. There was just an article in one of the journals I get -- don't remember which one. I had actually just been reading it when one of my technicians mentioned that her 7 lb chihuahua had vomited all night on Sat (this was Mon) after eating a pack of icebreakers gum. I didn't want to scare her but I told her she'd better find out what was in the gum -- sure enough it had xylitol. Her dog was acting fine but I had her bring him in anyway and sure he did have elevated liver enzymes. Not enough to be tremendously worrisome but enough to warrant treatment and monitoring. I think the only thing that saved him is that he ate so much gum it made him sick and he started vomiting! For small dogs I don't think it really takes that much -- maybe a few pieces of gum or candy. Larger dogs have to eat more but it can certainly happen since there are now cookies and other foods with xylitol. To the original poster -- I hope your baby is fine! Deborah DVM >> I'll second that. Get the xylitol out of the dog and if that means >> emergency clinic, so be it. Regardless, he needs to be monitored over the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Dale The patient we lost (died on the way to us) was 35 pounds and had eaten 4 sticks of xylitol based gum. |
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