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Reminder: Be careful with your chocolates during holidays (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago by IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz to c/dogs@lemmy.world

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Our 3,5 month old lab puppy managed to steal a whole chocolate bar (180g milk chocolate) while we moved christmas packages around and ate it whole.

We force-fed a handful of salt to him immediately after noticing what had happened and he vomited almost all of it out. I called a vet and got instructions to give medicinal coal and monitor closely if any symptoms appear.

It's been several hours now and he's pretty much back to normal, a bit beaten up due to vomiting and upset stomach, but at least so far seems like nothing permanent happened. He's got a vet scheduled anyways in few days for other stuff so he'll get checked up at the same time.

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[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I believe "medicinal coal" is activated charcoal. This stuff is always good to keep on hand for various reasons. If someone goes to the ER for an overdose, I believe this is often what they give as it absorbs everything. (It's also really messy.)

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. I ended up in the ER drinking some activated charcoal slurry that time I overdosed on acetaminophen (I'm fine, except for really liking trains now). It's gross.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

Shit, I'm so sorry. What's your favourite train? I really love Montreal's MR-73 and its iconic noises, the rubber wheels were a really cool idea.

[–] jode@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Messy is an understatement. I use it in my aquarium and when it spills it's a fuckin disaster.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Coal/carbon/graphite was used to make ink. It's still a good pigment called carbon black. Also a big part off the "lead" in pencils. And still used for drawing as is. Might have been the first thing humans used for drawing for that matter.

Yeah, it's really good at staining and marking things.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

I got pills, which wrapped in a sausage were easy enough to give. They also got some kind of powder which was ment to be mixed in water and I can imagine that's going to colour everything black. But it's still just coal, so other than being potential mess it's not that harmful to spill around.

And as the packaging was meant for humans, there was warnings that it'll neutralize all other medicine, so yes, it absorbs pretty much everything.