Chocolat Poison for Dogs

 

Chocolate is very delicious, we like it a lot, but our dogs find it delicious too. How delicious our dogs think chocolate is, they can not have it, because it is very dangerous for dogs.

In Chocolate is Theombromine, Theombromine is Poison for dogs. In
Unsweetened baking chocolate is more theombromine, and is more dangerous for you're dog than you can ever imagine. With Unsweetened baking chocolate dogs can even sooner die as eaten Milk chocolate.  7,5 grams of Unsweetened baking chocolate, is lethal for your dog. And for Milkchocolate is that 60 grams lethal. 
 

When a dog gets an overdose of Theombromine, it will take 6 till 24 hours before the dog dies. For a dog who gets pure Theobromine in a doses of 100 - 200 mg pro Kilogram bodyweight, it will be lethal.  A tablet milk chocolate has 155 - 232 mg Theombromine, and a tablet Pure unswetened chocolate from the same weight has almoast 1600 mg of Theombromine.


Symptoms after eating chocolate:

*  acute vomiting and diahrea

* Chocolate wil be fast admitted in the blood, the heartmuscle will be affected and it will be give a faster and unregular heartbeat

* accelerated respiration, muscles will be pulling toghetter to Epileptic seizures.

* repeatedly urinating, drinking a lot, and vomating a lot.

* Through the stopping of the heart, stopping of breathing, the dog kan die.

Theobromine can cause the sensory perception, shaking, muscle kramps or paralisys of the back legs, in extreme cases it can cause a  delirium. With a overdose it wil come to a  the cardiac arrest.


What can you do if you're dog has eaten chocolate?

If you're dog has eaten with in an hours chocolate, you can let you're dog throw up. It is not easy with chocalate to let an dog throw up, because chocolate is sticky after it is melted (and in the stomach will melt de chocolate fast), the chocalate wil stick to the wall of the stomach/the oesophagus. Only let a dog throw up when the dog has eaten chocolate within 60 minutes. Do see if you're dog is fully consciousness. You can give Norit after eating chocolate.
Go immediately to the vet with you're dog after eating chocolate.

 

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