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Tag: VPIS

  • Tremorgenic toxins and chocolate poisoning

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    This past fortnight or so we’ve seen a handful of cases in which dogs which have been struck down with severe whole-body tremors and seizure-like episodes shortly after (or while they are on) a walk. Each dog was from a different part of town, and all were out walking in different areas. Initially we didn’t…

  • Raisins

    Raisins

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    I worked New Year this year, and we had a busy one. Raisin ingestion was easily our most popular toxicity this season, outnumbering chocolate by 4 to 1. I last called the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS) about raisins around Easter time, but I called them again when I was hospitalising the second patient to make sure we…

  • The dark side

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    Emergency work I think is one of the hardest, if not THE hardest discipline to follow in this profession. That’s because not only do you have to be quick getting to a diagnosis (sometimes making intuitive or logical leaps in lieu of test results) and the fact it touches on virtually every other discipline (making…