Hi, our dog became very lethargic and unlike himself last night. We thought he was just tired and wanted us to leave him alone so he can sleep. Morning comes and we find an opened chocolate covered macadamia nuts box in a corner. we suspect that this is what's making him feel lethargic and disoriented. he also refuses to eat anything and vomits mostly fluids. ;He just lies down now and barely moves around. sometimes he twitches his legs. Other than that, he has a steady heart beat and his eyes continue to show consciousness (he still looks us in the eyes and looks around for the sounds he hears). We're hoping that this will just pass and he'll recover completely after a couple of days. What should we do?

My dog managed to get into a small can of mixed nuts which contained macadamias, by the time we found her she had eaten practically the whole can. Next day she has been asleep all day and not acting like herself, when I went to pick her up to move her she started growling when I put my hand near her back legs. Also when she tried to jump on the couch her hind legs gave out and i had to help her up. She weighs about 12-15lbs.

Hi there! I have a 45lb female red husky and she at about 4 macadamia nuts. She's fine at the moment since we just caught it but looking up on the Internet just tells me how toxic it is im afraid and just want to know if the amount she ate is worrisome and if we should induce vomiting.

My dog Oakley, went counter surfing while we were at work. He managed to eat 2 chocolate chip cookies, one raisin cookie and about 5 white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. He is lethargic but otherwise seems ok. What to we do??? Vet is closed for the night.

My nearly 2lb Chihuahua eat part of a white chocolate macodamia nut cookie it had tiny through out it so he didnt any actual whole nuts also cat was eating it too...he is showing no symtoms im just concerned

My shitzu ate a whole pack of garlic flavored macademia nuts. Now he can't stand long and lying all the time. My friend told me to give him rice which he ate with gusto but he is still weak. What shall I do?

My dog ate about 8 macadamia nuts last night at around 10pm. She was fine in the morning but when I arrived home she was shaking, staggered gate, lethargy, no vomiting. I took her to the vets to be told there was nothing she could do the nuts had already made their way through her system. I had no idea that the nuts were toxic. I stopped at the chemist and bought some activated charcoal and have given her some. It is 6:30 pm and She is now resting next to me. No longer shaking but still not her active self. She is 7kg. What else can I do for her? How much activated charcoal should I give her?

Hi, my dog is 9 years old and 60lbs pit bull mix. She just ate about 1 cup of salted macadamia nuts that were left out. We tried to induce vomiting via 3%hydrogen peroxide but she was too stubborn to throw up. It's been about an hour since the ingestion with no out of the norm symptoms. Will she be ok?

Following an outing to the mountains where we had taken a bag of macadamia salted nuts, we found the bag had been opened and mostly eaten on the floor of our vehicle by our two Australian shepherd-mix dogs. We went online to investigate whether ingestion of macadamia nuts is toxic and found that it is poisonous to dogs so we went to another website and learned how to induce vomiting using 3% hydrogen peroxide which we accomplished immediately after we discovered the online article on macadamia toxicity. We were successful in getting both dogs to expel most of their stomach contents, but our female dog had eaten much more of the bag's contents than the male and so had digested some of the nuts beyond the stomach and into the intestines. Abby is about 2.5 years old, and weighs about 55 pounds. We monitored both dogs closely after they vomited up the nuts. After the nuts were mostly expelled, the male Australian experienced no symptoms, indicating that all the nuts were mostly all removed from his digestive tract, but the female had classic macadamia nut toxicity symptoms that persisted for about 24 hours including vomiting, lethargy, inability to walk, weak hind legs, ataxia, and depression. These symptoms resolved a few hours after the last macadamia nuts were expelled through defecation; we were quite relieved when she began acting normally again. Upon examination of her stools, we found around fifteen whole macadamia nuts had traveled through her digestive system, together with numerous partial fragments, which totaled right about at the 2.4mg/kg (or 1.2mg/lb) of macadamia nuts which have been linked to clinical signs of macadamia ingestion--vomiting, ataxia, weakness, hyperthermia, and depression. It has now been several hours since the last macadamia nuts were expelled. Abby has fully recovered and is completely back to normal. We are very grateful for all the online information available regarding macadamia toxicity for dogs and proper treatment of macadamia ingestion by dogs.