9 month yorkie ate choc.
 

My 9 month old ate half of a hersheys air candy bar what do I do? Please help I'm freaking out!

Call you vet or an emergency vet NOW!!!

There is a sticky at the beginning of Sick and Injured about poisoning

POISON EMERGENCY: Important Resources for Pet Poisoning & Poison Control Hotline
Pet Poison Hotline, Animal Poison Control Center
www.petpoisonhelpline.com here are emergency instructions, a link to an A-Z full poison listing and a list of signs of poisoning in dogs and cats. Also listed is their 24/7 Animal Poison Control Center phone number: 1-800-213-6680 to call for a personal consultation for a fee.

Did your dog or cat just eat something poisonous? Call your veterinarian or Pet Poison Helpline at 800-213-6680 for help immediately! The sooner a dog poisoning or cat poisoning is diagnosed, the easier, less expensive, and safer it is for your pet to get treated!

(Click on the blue hyperlinks below to go directly to that section of the website.)

Emergency Instructions
Emergency Instructions

What to do if your dog or cat is poisoned:

* Remove your pet from the area.
* Check to make sure your pet is safe: breathing and acting normally.
* Do NOT give any home antidotes.
* Do NOT induce vomiting without consulting a vet or Pet Poison Helpline.
* Call Pet Poison Helpline at 800-213-6680.
* If veterinary attention is necessary, contact your veterinarian or emergency veterinary clinic immediately.

Detailed Instructions:
1. Immediately remove your pet from the area, and make sure no other pets (or kids!) are exposed to this area. Safely remove any remaining poisonous material from their reach.
2. Check to make sure your pet is breathing normally and acting fine otherwise.
3. Collect a sample of the material, along with the packaging, vial, or container, and save it – you will need all that information when you talk to your veterinarian or to a Pet Poison Helpline expert.
4. Do NOT give your dog any milk, food, salt, oil, or any other home remedies! Also, never inducing vomiting without talking to your veterinarian or Pet Poison Helpline – it may actually be detrimental or contraindicated to induce vomiting!
5. Don’t give hydrogen peroxide to your pet without checking with a vet or with Pet Poison Helpline first. For you cat lovers, hydrogen peroxide doesn’t work well to induce vomiting (it just causes massive foaming and salivating instead!), and stronger veterinary prescription medications are necessary to get your cat to vomit up the poison Kitty ingested!
6. Get help. Program your veterinarian phone number, along with an ER vet and Pet Poison Helpline’s phone number (800-213-6680) in your cell phone so you will always have immediate access to help.

Keep in mind that the prognosis is always better when a toxicity is reported immediately, so don’t wait to see if your pet becomes symptomatic before calling for help. It’s always less expensive, and safer for your pet for you to call immediately. Remember that there’s a narrow window of time when we can decontaminate (induce vomiting or pump the stomach) in the case of a poisoning!

Poison List - Quickly find a poison:
Poison List quickly find a poison (A-Z poison listing)

Know the Signs of Poisoning in Dogs and Cats
Signs of Poisoning in Dogs and Cats - Pet Poisoning Signs and Symptoms

Gastrointestinal signs
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Drooling/hypersalivating
Inappetance
Nausea

Internal bleeding
Coughing of blood
Vomiting blood
Pale gums
A racing heart rate
Weakness or lethargy
Collapse

Kidney failure
Halitosis (“uremic” breath)
Inappetance
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Excessive thirst or urination
Absence or decreased urination

Liver failure
Jaundice/icterus/yellow discoloration to the gums
Weakness or collapse secondary to a low blood sugar
Dull mentation, acting abnormally
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Black-tarry stool (melena)

For Owners a guide to pet safety

Lisa(Lisa and Pic) used this service when her Vivi got into the heartworm preventative and seemed satisfied and gave me the phone number. I liked the site and a lot of the information there seemed worth sharing with YorkieTalk just as a refresher to us all.
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Last edited by Wylie's Mom; 03-03-2013 at 09:18 AM.

Give him 1/2 teaspoon of Hydrogen peroxide every 15 minutes (3 times) or until he throws up.

If no HP on hand, get him to your vet.

It takes quite a bit of chocolate to be toxic. Unless your dog is tiny....How much does your dog weigh?

How many ounces is the candy bar? Milk chocolate is less toxic than dark chocolate or cocoa.

Link to amounts of chocolate vs weight of dog

The Chocolate Chart Interactive - National Geographic Magazine

Personally, I would take my puppy to the vet to be sure that the active ingredient was neutralized. I would not give her anything to induce vomiting!

https://mypeted.com/pet-health/artic...ate-poisoning/

To clarify, I would call a vet before doing anything....or, as someone suggested, call animal control.

Checking in to see what the vet said about your baby and his chocolate bar!

Oh my goodness....not sure where my brain was but I meant poison control...not animal control.

call the vet. When my girl was about 4 months old she ate a chocolate covered cherry. The vet said not to worry (it was milk chocolate)

Hope everything is ok!

If it was milk chocolate, I wouldn't worry too much, but call a vet to be safe. Of course it depends on the size of the dog too. But it takes quite a bit of chocolate to be toxic (and I believe milk chocolate is the 'safest').

Dr. Oz just had a vet on his show. He was saying that if it was milk chocolate it would take a little more, depending on the size of the dog, to be toxic but that it would NOT be good if they ate dark chocolate or the 100% cooking chocolate. Here is the link: Common Table Foods Dogs Should Never Eat - Smoking Alcohol: The Dangerous New Way to Get Drunk | The Dr. Oz Show

Looks like half an air delight bar is only about .75 ounces

https://www.hersheys.com/pure-produc...IR+DELIGHT+Bar

At 1.5 mg of theobromine per gram of average milk chocolate, that would be about 32 mg of theobromine, and 50 mg per pound the dog weighs is listed as the toxic dose. So I bet the pup from the original post is fine, since even for a 2lb tiny it'd be 1/3rd of a toxic dose and 1/6 of a lethal dose. Still like to see an update though.

The darker the chocolate, the more danger involved.

Always remember there is a thread about chocolate here at YT, in which there is a link to "amounts of dangerous chocolates" - it's in the Emergency Library: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/eme...eight-dog.html