Pine-sol poisoning
 

By request of another member I reposted this here. I never said anything before as I thought this was common knowledge, & thought we were the stupid ones. We were discussing seizures in puppies & I replied with this.

Very scary. That happened to my pups. Noticed one was seizing when they were about 3 mos old. Told hubby to call vet, I was on my way. These were my first pups, & the vet gave me the liver-shunt speech, took him back to start blood-work, etc. I was a mess, but they had to keep him.

Got home, & my second pup was doing the same thing. Turned around & took 2nd pup. This was about 8 am in the morning...the previous night my son mopped the kitchen floor. He splashed pine-sol all over the floors & then mopped. He used almost a half a bottle. The pups thought this was great fun, & chased him around the kitchen, chasing the mop, etc. The house still reaked of pine-sol the next morning so hubby started doing some research online & told me he thought they had phenol poisoning. (a nasty chemical in pine-sol) I called the vet & told him what I thought it might have been. He said he would check into it, but he didn't think that's what it was.

Turns out hubby was right. Puppies so close to the floor inhale, lick & believe it or not absorb the poison right through their pads. Their small size made them more susceptible to the poison, as most folks would not have an issue, but then they don't have a son who didn't read directions. (Half a bottle of Pine-sol...sheesh!)

Two day emergency room stay for 2 pups, bloodwork, & special food for 2 weeks while their systems recovered.

My avatar shows both pups at 6 months old. My daughter owns one, & friends of hers took the other. They live only a couple doors down from each other, so both boys get to see each other almost daily, and they always bring Bentley over when I am visiting my daughter, so grandma gets to see them all the time too. No liver shunts, and they are doing well.

I understand the symptoms are the same, the liver can't process the toxins that cause the seizure. It's very scary, & emotionally draining. Either way the initial treatment was the same, the vet had starting flushing the first pups system out with IV's when I arrived with the second. At this point he thought it was unlikely that it was liver shunt with 2 pups having seizures at the same time, so I had to sign a lot of blood paperwork permission forms, and promise to pay contracts...etc.

In the end, the diagnosis was poisoning by Pine-sol. Needless to say Pine-sol is no longer welcome in my home, and the heartbreak you feel causing your babies to become so sick will never go away.

Oh, & if you check the back of the bottle, somewhere in the middle of a paragraph it says "Dangerous to humans & small animals" I'm not exactly sure, it took me a couple times to find it, (I have no bottles to check at the moment), but there is a warning on the bottle, you just have to search really hard to find it.:mad:

It just makes me wonder how long our dogs could really live with us, if we didn't poison em a little everyday with products we use unknowingly doing damage to them. Smaller dogs like our Yorkie babies are in way more danger than larger dogs like shepherds, etc.

*some of this post was changed to fit an opening thread, instead of replying to another*

Thanks for posting this here....... you may have saved someone a LOT of grief!!! Many Yorkie owners use different types of cleaners to make their home sanitary.... (and we all know that sometimes Yorkies can be a bit "hard-headed" when it comes to potty training.... well, either hard headed or MAJORLY spoiled! LOL)..... At our house there are occasional "accidents" and some of us are a bit nutty about making sure that the house is completely sanitized when this happens!!! :rolleyes:

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i never mop with chemicals just my steam mop i had a lil one that never got over 2 pounds and my vet told me years ago to not let her down onto a just mop floor

Rest In Peace My Lil Peaches

THANK FOR SHARTING

..... Steam mops are wonderful.... we LOVE ours!!!!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Thank you for sharing your story. So glad that your babies are alright. :) It seems like there is always some type of danger around the corner that you would never even dream of.

Thank you for sharing your story and warning us about the dangers of certain cleaners! No matter what I mop my tile floors with, I make sure the boys are safe in another room, and before I let them out, I'll go over the entire areas that I mopped with my steam mop. That way there is much less chance that they'll pick up something on their paws to ingest.

vinegar and water much safer, how are your fur babies doing now

Thank you for the heads up on Pine-sol. I have never heard of a steam mop. I will have to look into one. I always gate off the area I am cleaning and rise 2 or 3 times with water.

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However, if one needs to disinfect.....throughly rinse several times with clear water.

That must of been such a scary experience :( I am very glad that your 2 yorkie's are going to be ok. The steam mops are great, you can get them at Walmart.

oreck steam it mop
 

oreck steam it mop is what i have and i love it if you have a store close by it is cheaper in the store then on line i paid 139.99

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Thank you for sharing your story! How scary and I'm so glad your babies pulled thru!

They are doing great! Both my daughter & her friends know that because of the poisoning there might be something that shows up down the road, a long-term issue, that we might not be aware of at the present. I have recent pics of the pups, they are almost 7 months old now.

The first pic is Benji at my daughters friend's house with their other dog Sadie. (A yorkie=poo) Benji is on the right.

My daughters friend is a photography buff & always sends me great shots of Bentley. He is in the second pic.

These were just sent to me in the last two weeks, so are the most recent I have.

SO cute! Love the head tilt!!! :p

Oh they are awesome! I have the shark model with the head that flips over, and I got it for $100 at lowes. Walmart has it for $20 more...at least ours does. You can't beat cleaning/sanitizing your floors with nothing but water! :thumbup: