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Justfishing

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I am out of town and my daughter is in a panic. We have a 25 lb dog that ate a 5000iu vitamin d3 pill.

A 5000iu is .125mg

Is this something we should worry about. Emergency vet didnt know said that we need to contact poison control before or if they would need to treat. My wife tried 2 poison control centers and no one calls back.
 
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I had to call 911 before for poison control and they connected me to Poison control in 30 seconds. It was for my kid though
 

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I’d figure out how to make that dog start puking in a hurry

 

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My dachshund licked a poison toad in Florida and this is what we used.
 

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Google cholecalciferol poisoning for dogs.
Lots of resources…you need to get on top of this quickly.


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call the poison control for pets in your county. They should call you right back. You tell them what your pet ate. They might ask for active ingredients and some specifics, and then they will tell you what to do. There is going to be a charge, but they wil then give you a record number that refers to to their suggestion which you can take to your emergency vet, if they think ti's necessary. Our local vet, told us to call them first before bring out dog in after eating a big chunk of rat poison because that is what they were going to do first anyway and charge us on top of the county charge. For us, it worked, out, and they said skip the trip to vet and watch for...gave us a list of things to monitor. we called vet and told them, gave them the number, done. But, yes, do it faast.
 

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How did you use it.
Friend shoved it down him until he threw up. Then flushed his mouth with kitchen faucet. Not sure if this would be recommended for swallowing something solid though
 

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Sometimes throwing up isn't the best solution depending on what was ingested
Our dog ate a rotten dead rabbit and the vet had us take a syringe and inject hydrogen peroxide down it's throat
30 seconds later the rabbit was out
disclaimer, this isn't a professional opinion
 

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The good thing is a 5000iu D3 is usually a slow release, and not a toxic (well, by human standards) substance. Hopefully that plays to your advantage.
 

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The dog ingested .125 mg. I have seen one source based on his weight the max dose is 1.125 mg. Or 10 times what he ingested. Another was max dose od .4 mg or 3 times what was ingested.

No need to put the dog through a treatment that is not warranted
 

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We thought one of our dogs ate poison mushrooms. A little peroxide with cat food and the poor thing puked for 10 minutes.
 

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Sometimes throwing up isn't the best solution depending on what was ingested
Our dog ate a rotten dead rabbit and the vet had us take a syringe and inject hydrogen peroxide down it's throat
30 seconds later the rabbit was out
disclaimer, this isn't a professional opinion
Yep.
From one if the dog websites


HYDROGEN PEROXIDE:
1 - 10 teaspoons given orally can be used to induce vomiting in dogs. (See toxicities.) Never induce vomiting unless being directed to by a veterinarian. If you think that your pet may have ingested a potentially posionous substance, call the Animal Poison Control Center at 888-426-4435. Hydrogen peroxide is not as effective to clean wounds as antibacterial soap and water.
 

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We thought one of our dogs ate poison mushrooms. A little peroxide with cat food and the poor thing puked for 10 minutes.

Yep cooked chicken breast soaked in peroxide. Dog will puke everything up.
 
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