How to prevent food poisoning in dogs

How to prevent food poisoning in dogs:

1. Keep the supply of fresh food. Some owners often put food and water in the dog's food bowl for several days. These foods are easy to be invaded and multiplied by bacteria when they are placed outside. If the dog eats these food with bacteria, it is easy to cause poisoning.

2. Store dog food at low temperature. Food at high temperature is easy to deteriorate, so dog food also needs to be placed in a low-temperature and dry place to avoid deterioration of stored food.

3. The food bowls and water containers for dogs to eat also need to be cleaned in the field to prevent bacteria from multiplying and endangering the health of dogs.

4. Don’t let the dog eat the food in the wild when going out. The food in the wild is spoiled and broken, and it is easy to cause poisoning after the dog eats it by mistake.

5. Suspicious food must be fully heated and conditioned to prevent the occurrence of poisoning incidents. Staphylococcus is extremely resistant to heat, even if heated, it cannot be sterilized. However, salmonella or vibrio enteritidis can be prevented by heating.

6. Fresh food should be prepared at any time, and leftover food should not be placed in the tableware.

7. For toxic substances such as insecticides and rodenticides, various chemical substances, household cleaners, bleaching agents, etc., care should be taken to preserve and manage them. Dogs are prone to poisoning by accidental ingestion.

Symptoms of food poisoning in dogs:

1. Frequent vomiting, diarrhea, blood in the stool, and some may even cause hypovolemic shock due to dehydration and electrolyte loss. Rapid breathing, tachycardia, and irregular heartbeat may also occur.

2. Some toxins have chronic toxicity to the liver and kidneys, such as eating moldy and spoiled food, there will be a large amount of aflatoxin and zearalenone at the same time, these toxins directly lead to liver failure gradually, increasing the risk of liver cancer, clinically Show ascites, jaundice, loss of appetite.

3. Some foods are toxic to the kidneys. For example, dogs cannot eat grapes, and cats cannot touch narcissus. Once poisoning occurs, it will lead to anuria, proteinuria or diabetes insipidus, which are manifestations of kidney failure.

4. Rat poisoning. For example, tetramine mainly produces neurological symptoms, generalized convulsions, or some animals suffer from blood coagulation failure, and animals die from bleeding. This kind of poisoning generally occurs quickly and the condition is serious. Most of the poisoning is difficult to rescue and treat.

5. Isoniazid poisoning, this drug can also cause generalized convulsions. If an animal is found to have eaten isoniazid by mistake or picked up this unknown food outdoors, it needs to be sent to the animal hospital for vomiting as soon as possible. Because once this kind of poison occurs, the animal will go to treatment after convulsions, and it is basically difficult to save the animal's life.