Treatment of Salmon Poisoning in Dogs
Treatment of salmon poisoning is fairly straightforward, but the length of the regimen will depend on how sick your dog is when he arrives at the hospital. If your dog is experiencing severe vomiting and diarrhea, he may need to be hospitalized in order to get the dehydration and illness under control.
The veterinarian will begin treatment with the administration of intravenous fluids if necessary. Antibiotics, to kill the microorganism responsible for the illness and a dewormer, which will kill the parasite will be given. Anti-diarrheal medication and drugs to combat the nausea may be dispensed as well.
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Radiation
Back in 2011, radiation seeped into the Pacific as a result of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
The radiation has made its way to the west coast of north America and fish now show signs of radiation.
While studies suggest that the amount of radiation is so low it shouldn’t cause concern … it’s best to avoid Pacific Salmon.
Cesium-137 and strontium-90 are two of the radioactive particles found in salmon. These can build up in your dogs bone marrow and lead to cancer and leukemia.
Causes of Salmon Poisoning in Dogs
If your dog has ingested salmon, trout, largescale sucker, shad, sturgeon, redside shiner, sculpin, candlefish or lamprey that carry the microorganism neorickettsia helminthoeca, he will begin to show the symptoms of salmon poisoning disease within 6 to 10 days. 90% of dogs who consume the affected fish will die if the disease is untreated.
The parasitic flukes nanophyetus salmincola have three different hosts: the snail, the fish and the canine. If your dog eats a parasitic fluke that carries the neorickettsia helminthoeca, the fluke will release the microorganism in the dog’s intestinal tract. The microorganisms then spread to:
This then causes: