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We had an accident here in the household this morning. Ibuprofen bottle got knocked out of a kitchen cabinet and the lid wasn't on tight. A few pills spilled out on the floor. I don't think Fasb got ahold of any, but I'm going to post what we did and what we're watching for, in case anyone has any useful advice to add.
As I said, bottle got spilled onto the floor. Wife bent over to start picking up pills and Fasb came running into room to see what was going on. Wife intercepted Fasb and took him downstairs and shut the doors. It's possible he found a tablet in the couple seconds he was in the room before she grabbed ahold of him, but not likely.
Wife the called me (I was still home, but upstairs) and we picked up tablets. Found six or eight spilled, mostly on counter. Floor around cabinet is white tile, so red pills are easy to spot. We did find one on the carpeting a few feet away, so, after we picked up tablets we saw, we cleaned room thoroughly. Swept the tile part of floor, vacuumed the carpet, moved all the furniture we could. We got down on our hands and knees and felt around, figuring we might step on something if we missed a tablet. I got a flashlight and peered under the refrigerator, in the corners, under table legs, etc. Pretty sure we checked everywhere in the room, so we doubt there are any pills we didn't find. To be on the safe side, we went over the doorways leading out of the room, the stairwells, etc. Nada. We keep looking, but I don't think there's anything left to find.
After that, my wife called the vet while I googled the subject. On vet's advice, we gave Fasb a small amount of hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting. He threw up a couple times afterwards, but no pills came up.
Google and the vet both suggest that most symptoms would probably show up in an hour or two. Been several hours since this happened, and Fasb seems mostly himself. No continued vomiting, no diarrhea, bloody stool, lethargy, etc. I gave him a treat a bit ago and he ate it readily, so appetite seems normal so far. In short, nothing to make me think he was exposed so far.
Don't think he likes the taste of the peroxide, though.
Wife and I are both home with him. I called the office and told them I wouldn't be in today, wife was off anyways. If he's not showing any worrisome symptoms and vet agrees it's ok, we are still planning to go out tonight for an hour or two. We'll see. Supposed to call vet back after lunch.
Ibuprofen was over the counter variety: 200 mg tablets. Fasb is about 31 pounds. Not sure if that's enough to cause serious problems at his weight or not. Don't want to find out.
Any suggestions? Anything we should do that we haven't done? If he's not showing symptoms by lunchtime or so, it that a pretty good indicator that he wasn't exposed? I'm fairly certain that he didn't ingest anything and that we picked up all spilled pills, so I think the risk is probably fairly low. Don't want to take chances, though, and it's hard to be 100 percent certain.
Thanks.
As I said, bottle got spilled onto the floor. Wife bent over to start picking up pills and Fasb came running into room to see what was going on. Wife intercepted Fasb and took him downstairs and shut the doors. It's possible he found a tablet in the couple seconds he was in the room before she grabbed ahold of him, but not likely.
Wife the called me (I was still home, but upstairs) and we picked up tablets. Found six or eight spilled, mostly on counter. Floor around cabinet is white tile, so red pills are easy to spot. We did find one on the carpeting a few feet away, so, after we picked up tablets we saw, we cleaned room thoroughly. Swept the tile part of floor, vacuumed the carpet, moved all the furniture we could. We got down on our hands and knees and felt around, figuring we might step on something if we missed a tablet. I got a flashlight and peered under the refrigerator, in the corners, under table legs, etc. Pretty sure we checked everywhere in the room, so we doubt there are any pills we didn't find. To be on the safe side, we went over the doorways leading out of the room, the stairwells, etc. Nada. We keep looking, but I don't think there's anything left to find.
After that, my wife called the vet while I googled the subject. On vet's advice, we gave Fasb a small amount of hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting. He threw up a couple times afterwards, but no pills came up.
Google and the vet both suggest that most symptoms would probably show up in an hour or two. Been several hours since this happened, and Fasb seems mostly himself. No continued vomiting, no diarrhea, bloody stool, lethargy, etc. I gave him a treat a bit ago and he ate it readily, so appetite seems normal so far. In short, nothing to make me think he was exposed so far.
Don't think he likes the taste of the peroxide, though.
Wife and I are both home with him. I called the office and told them I wouldn't be in today, wife was off anyways. If he's not showing any worrisome symptoms and vet agrees it's ok, we are still planning to go out tonight for an hour or two. We'll see. Supposed to call vet back after lunch.
Ibuprofen was over the counter variety: 200 mg tablets. Fasb is about 31 pounds. Not sure if that's enough to cause serious problems at his weight or not. Don't want to find out.
Any suggestions? Anything we should do that we haven't done? If he's not showing symptoms by lunchtime or so, it that a pretty good indicator that he wasn't exposed? I'm fairly certain that he didn't ingest anything and that we picked up all spilled pills, so I think the risk is probably fairly low. Don't want to take chances, though, and it's hard to be 100 percent certain.
Thanks.
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