Chocolate poisoning

Someone fed choc to his CAG and his CAG couldn't lift his right leg and got tired. He refused to drink and suffered from choc poisoning.
Make sure you guys don't feed choc to your pets.


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"Chocolate is a wonderful treat to share with human family members, but it can be harmful or fatal to your pet bird. Chocolate poisoning first affects a bird's digestive system, causing vomiting and diarrhea. As the condition progresses, the bird's central nervous system is affected, first causing seizures and eventually death."

Theobromine poisoning
"Theobromine is especially toxic to horses, dogs, parrots, voles, and cats because they are unable to metabolize the chemical effectively. If they are fed chocolate, the theobromine will remain in their bloodstream for up to 20 hours. Medical treatment performed by a veterinarian involves inducing vomiting within two hours of ingestion and administration of benzodiazepines or barbiturates for seizures, antiarrhythmics for heart arrhythmias, and fluid diuresis."

The Merck Veterinary Manual (it does not say anything specific about birds, so treatment must be left to a professional!)
"Treatment:
Stabilization of symptomatic animals is a priority in treating chocolate toxicosis. Methocarbamol (50-220 mg/kg, slow IV; no more than 330 mg/kg/24 hr) or diazepam (0.5-2.0 mg/kg, slow IV) may be used for tremors and/or mild seizures; barbiturates may be required for severe seizures. Arrhythmias should be treated as needed: propranolol (0.02-0.06 mg/kg, slow IV) or metoprolol (0.2-0.4 mg/kg, slow IV) for tachyarrhythmias, atropine (0.01-0.02 mg/kg) for bradyarrhythmias, and lidocaine (1-2 mg/kg, IV, followed by 25-80 mg/kg/min infusion) for refractory ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Fluid diuresis may assist in stabilizing cardiovascular function and hasten urinary excretion of methylxanthines.
Once animals have stabilized, or in animals presenting before clinical signs have developed (eg, within 1 hr of ingestion), decontamination should be performed. Induction of emesis using apomorphine or hydrogen peroxide should be initiated; in animals that have been sedated due to seizures, gastric lavage may be considered. Activated charcoal (1-4 g/kg, PO) should be administered; because of the enterohepatic recirculation of methylxanthines, repeated doses should be administered every 8 hr in symptomatic animals (control vomiting with metoclopramide, 0.2-0.4 mg/kg, SC or IM, qid as needed).
Other treatment for symptomatic animals includes thermoregulation, correcting acid/base and electrolyte abnormalities, monitoring cardiac status via electrocardiography, and urinary catheter placement (methylxanthines and their metabolites can be reabsorbed across the bladder wall). Clinical signs may persist up to 72 hr in severe cases."

very informative! dogs also cant eat chocolate