My husky ,ace, ate sago palm and has been throwing up and drooling and seems to be breathing heavily. I don’t live near a pet hospital what should I do ?

My 11 month old lab puppy ate a sago palm seed on Monday morning. She started vomiting about an hour later. I immediately took her to the animal hospital where they gave her Toxiban and started her on IV fluids. Tests showed significantly elevated enzymes in her liver on Monday and the following day after she had been treated overnight at the hospital. She came home Tuesday afternoon and wouldn't eat and drooled constantly. Yesterday, she was given a shot to manage nausea but it didn't help. We were able to give her Denamarin yesterday morning but today she threw it up. I took her back to the hospital this morning for more tests and her Bilirubin had significantly increased to 9.4. ALT decreased slightly valuing at 974 and AST valuing 332. ALP is 644 and GGT is 113. The vet is giving her something for her intestines to see if he cant get her to eat. She is also getting more nausea meds and hooked up to fluids. I am not concerned about the cost of this process but do not want her to suffer more than she has to. Are there any other options? Have you seen a dog bounce back after these numbers and this kind of treatment? When do I suggest a blood transfusion and how viable is that option? Does it take time to find a blood match? Is there any hope? Thank you, Krista

I was cutting the dead limbs off of my sago palm and I didn’t know it was poisonous to dogs until a researcher the plant because my hands are swollen from getting poked and feel like crap because my 10 week old puppy was chewing on the end of the limb that I cut off but only for a minute. He seems fine. from the time it happened till I found out it was poisonous was about 5-6 hours and showed no signs. Still isn’t showing signs and it’s been 8 hours. Should I go to the vet in the morning or will he be okay?!

How common is it for a dog that has survived an initial Sego Palm poisoning to develop a protein deficiency 6-8 weeks later? My dog had eaten the leaves of a sego in the beginning of May. He received treatment and was given the all clear two weeks later by our vet. (He had responded to the liver therapy we continued for two weeks after the poisoning) when I came home from work Friday I noticed his stomach looked a little distended, by Saturday morning he looked pregnant so I rushed him to the vet. He was accumulating clear fluid in his abdomin, had a high white blood cell count, anemia, and low protein levels. He was given a dirretic, steroids,and antibiotics and they sent us home some for me to continue. They didn't want to pull the fluid off because it might send him into shock but if the dirretic didn't work by Monday morning, I was supposed to bring him back and they would remove the fluid. By Sunday morning his stomach was stretched to the size of a beach ball so I rushed him to the emergency vet. They told me this is a very rare side effect from the sego Palm poisoning where 6-8 weeks after the initial poisoning the dog will develop a protein deficiency that comes on rapidly and has a very low survival rate. I was wondering how often this really happens and if you have seen this before. The emergency vet said he had only seen it two other times and even with aggressive treatment, the other two dogs had not survived.

We came to know about this plant being so toxic once our 8 month lab puppy eat one of this plants that was daying and just about to be thrown to the garbage. We reacted relatively quick same day few hours later, emergency clinic and follow up appointments with her veterinarian. Next day we saw some fake improvement, while she was definitely not the same she tried her best to act normal and we understood she was on a recovery process, about a week later she quit eating, we tried with different food and vet recommendations which worked for couple of days then quit eating again, this time there was no way to get food into her. We took her to an specialty clinic where we were told she had liver failure and there was nothing to be done then. While we did everything possible and didn't reach a point of money concern (dog insurance helped a lot) we believe there were things that could be done differently: 1.- there is not a lot of awareness about this type of poisoning, we believe the initial treatment at the emergency clinic could of be much more aggressive initially. 2.- dont loose time and money on small clinics, look for a hospital and make an effort to get the right level attention at the beginning, if done late the chances are low to non 3.- she looked physically healthy,astrong and in good spirits, didn't loose any weight, didn't bleed through the nose or mouth but at the end her feces were dark showing a probable internal bleedind. 4.- medication was complicated probably because our lack of experience or probably because it was too much and she was not feeling well then she got afraid of us at the end while we were trying to help her(Denamarin, famotidine, vitamin K, sucralfate and metoclopramide injection... were part of her treatment) 5.- blood or plasma transfusion was not diagnosed but perhaps if done on time may help (dont know) In some dogs the bad news come quickly on some others like ours takes time, I've read about other cases similar to ours where a fake recovery shows some hope but soon after the toxicity of this plant will pay its toll. Hope this helps others and will emphasize to be aggressive at the beginning to increase your chances

I have a 4 month old chihuahua puppy that chewed a saga palm leaf. She was immediately at the vet within 45 min of the chew. She was induced vomit and charcoaled 3 times total. All blood work is normal as of September .23 2 days ago. I’m going for another test Friday September 27th. That will be 7 days total. Can this show up later like in a couple weeks?

My 7 month old chihuahua terrier mix threw up 4 times and had diarrhea twice after I brought her home from my moms house. She became extremely lethargic and I took her to the er. They thought it could be parvo but after the test was negative they asked if she had been around sago palms- and my mom has sago palms planted in her backyard. Her ALT liver enzyme levels were over 1000. They have her anti nausea meds, antibiotics, and activated charcoal. They kept her on fluids overnight and the next morning they said her vitals were all normal and her clotting levels were lowering. We went to visit her and she looked more like her normal self. They said she was on the way to recovery. She ate food and kept it down and drank water. They gave her dextrose to keep her blood sugar normal. They took blood again later that day but it still showed that her ALT liver enzyme levels were over 1000. They gave me the option to take her home and see how she does or leave her another 24 hours and keep her on fluids and receive a plasma transfusion. I chose to keep her there and on fluids to be on the safe side. I’m worried that her liver enzyme levels won’t go down (even though she finally looks and seems back to her normal self) or that once I take her home after another 24 hours she will decline after being taken off fluids. Does this progress seem to be positive? Is there a chance she will completely regress after being taken off fluids? I’m just very worried bc her ALT levels are still very high. I just want to know if I can be more positive about my baby surviving since there have been good signs.

My 14 week old Maltese barely licked an open seed which was leaking a milky like substance. I grabbed him quickly and called my vet. Have given hydrogen peroxide within within 40 minutes of exposure and an hour and half later he finally vomited. I’m hoping a little lick of that milk isn’t enough to cause damage?

Inhave two digs, and have been noticing them eating these weird seed like things. The first day one of them had thrown a few up, but then was fine. I had no idea what he had gotten into. I keep noticing the other with one in his mouth. I finally found a ton of berry like seeds under my huge palm tree. The dogs have been getting into them, but I keep scooping the seed part out of their mouth. One of them threw some up thos afternoon. But both seem fine. Their poop issolid, ,and they are eating and drinking like normal. Do I need to just keep an eye out for any other signs?