From:
tansy
Date: 2001-10-05 15:46:00 UTC
Subject: hydrogen peroxide in emergency kit
I tried giving a ferret who I thought had eaten mouse poison
(long story) hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting. He wound up
inhaling some of it and with pneumonia. I was very lucky and
he survived, but I would never try this again and I DO NOT
RECOMMEND IT. Leave this to the vets!
Neosporin can be dangerous if licked. Try Biocaine or another
antiseptic formulated for animals.
And I was also criticized for my emergency list. Sorry, but
that is what is in my kit, and there is nothing in it that
requires any more skill than being able to put a needle under
the skin.
In 15 years of ferreting the most common emergency I have seen
is seizures due to low blood sugar in an animal previously
undiagnosed with insulinoma, so the one thing I consider most
important in that kit is the tube of icing sugar.
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