Why Ingesting A Spot-On Is Bad News! - Dr Ingrid Goodman

Spot-ons Given Orally…Does It Really Matter?YES!!!!A 6-month old Labrador puppy became a real-life ‘Sleeping Beauty’ after her owners mistakenly poured a well-known flea & heartworm treatment down her throat…instead of onto her back, in what’s thought to have been an ill-conceived money-saving experiment.Emergency Vets at the Animal Referral Hospital initially feared the comatose pup would require a lengthy hospital stay under constant supervision until the effect of the drugs wore off…and then they came up with a much speedier, albeit expensive alternative, ‘Intralipid’.Dr Ingrid Goodman joins us to explain what happened.Further information:DVM360 extract: Successful use of ILE therapy has been reported anecdotally in veterinary patients for ivermectin, moxidectin, permethrin, loperamide, baclofen, bupropion, marijuana, and sertraline toxicoses. http://veterinarymedicine.dvm360.com/case-11-1Specific Veterinary usage of Intralipid therapy:http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/article/intravenous-lipids-feline-permethrin-toxicity