My husky ,ace, ate sago palm and has been throwing up and drooling and seems to be breathing heavily. I don’t live near a pet hospital what should I do ?

My 11 month old lab puppy ate a sago palm seed on Monday morning. She started vomiting about an hour later. I immediately took her to the animal hospital where they gave her Toxiban and started her on IV fluids. Tests showed significantly elevated enzymes in her liver on Monday and the following day after she had been treated overnight at the hospital. She came home Tuesday afternoon and wouldn't eat and drooled constantly. Yesterday, she was given a shot to manage nausea but it didn't help. We were able to give her Denamarin yesterday morning but today she threw it up. I took her back to the hospital this morning for more tests and her Bilirubin had significantly increased to 9.4. ALT decreased slightly valuing at 974 and AST valuing 332. ALP is 644 and GGT is 113. The vet is giving her something for her intestines to see if he cant get her to eat. She is also getting more nausea meds and hooked up to fluids. I am not concerned about the cost of this process but do not want her to suffer more than she has to. Are there any other options? Have you seen a dog bounce back after these numbers and this kind of treatment? When do I suggest a blood transfusion and how viable is that option? Does it take time to find a blood match? Is there any hope? Thank you, Krista

I was cutting the dead limbs off of my sago palm and I didn’t know it was poisonous to dogs until a researcher the plant because my hands are swollen from getting poked and feel like crap because my 10 week old puppy was chewing on the end of the limb that I cut off but only for a minute. He seems fine. from the time it happened till I found out it was poisonous was about 5-6 hours and showed no signs. Still isn’t showing signs and it’s been 8 hours. Should I go to the vet in the morning or will he be okay?!

How common is it for a dog that has survived an initial Sego Palm poisoning to develop a protein deficiency 6-8 weeks later? My dog had eaten the leaves of a sego in the beginning of May. He received treatment and was given the all clear two weeks later by our vet. (He had responded to the liver therapy we continued for two weeks after the poisoning) when I came home from work Friday I noticed his stomach looked a little distended, by Saturday morning he looked pregnant so I rushed him to the vet. He was accumulating clear fluid in his abdomin, had a high white blood cell count, anemia, and low protein levels. He was given a dirretic, steroids,and antibiotics and they sent us home some for me to continue. They didn't want to pull the fluid off because it might send him into shock but if the dirretic didn't work by Monday morning, I was supposed to bring him back and they would remove the fluid. By Sunday morning his stomach was stretched to the size of a beach ball so I rushed him to the emergency vet. They told me this is a very rare side effect from the sego Palm poisoning where 6-8 weeks after the initial poisoning the dog will develop a protein deficiency that comes on rapidly and has a very low survival rate. I was wondering how often this really happens and if you have seen this before. The emergency vet said he had only seen it two other times and even with aggressive treatment, the other two dogs had not survived.

We came to know about this plant being so toxic once our 8 month lab puppy eat one of this plants that was daying and just about to be thrown to the garbage. We reacted relatively quick same day few hours later, emergency clinic and follow up appointments with her veterinarian. Next day we saw some fake improvement, while she was definitely not the same she tried her best to act normal and we understood she was on a recovery process, about a week later she quit eating, we tried with different food and vet recommendations which worked for couple of days then quit eating again, this time there was no way to get food into her. We took her to an specialty clinic where we were told she had liver failure and there was nothing to be done then. While we did everything possible and didn't reach a point of money concern (dog insurance helped a lot) we believe there were things that could be done differently: 1.- there is not a lot of awareness about this type of poisoning, we believe the initial treatment at the emergency clinic could of be much more aggressive initially. 2.- dont loose time and money on small clinics, look for a hospital and make an effort to get the right level attention at the beginning, if done late the chances are low to non 3.- she looked physically healthy,astrong and in good spirits, didn't loose any weight, didn't bleed through the nose or mouth but at the end her feces were dark showing a probable internal bleedind. 4.- medication was complicated probably because our lack of experience or probably because it was too much and she was not feeling well then she got afraid of us at the end while we were trying to help her(Denamarin, famotidine, vitamin K, sucralfate and metoclopramide injection... were part of her treatment) 5.- blood or plasma transfusion was not diagnosed but perhaps if done on time may help (dont know) In some dogs the bad news come quickly on some others like ours takes time, I've read about other cases similar to ours where a fake recovery shows some hope but soon after the toxicity of this plant will pay its toll. Hope this helps others and will emphasize to be aggressive at the beginning to increase your chances