WARNING!!! Don't let your Dog eat raw fish especially of the salmon variety. Freckles went to the doggie hospital Monday with severe Salmon Poisoning and will be coming home today. This will be an ongoing problem for us as Freckles is a scavenger and will eat ANYTHING, so he will be living a much more confined life. No other animals can get this condition so you don't have to worry about your cats or gerbils. We will keep you posted on Freckles recovery. Below is an explanation of Salmon Poisoning.
Salmon poisoning, also known as Salmon Poisoning Disease or Neorickettsia helminthoeca, is an acute infectious disease of wild and domestic dogs caused by ingestion of raw fish. The infective agent is transmitted through the various stages of a fluke in a snail-fish-dog life cycle. The name of the disease is misleading because there is no toxin involved. The disease is caused by the Rickettsial organism Neorickettsai helminthoeca, and is most often associated with eating raw fish containing N. salminocola, the trematode fluke (worm) carrier.Exposure to a fresh brackish stream or beach and eating raw fish in an endemic area are risk factors. The fluke parasite is carried in the kidneys of infected Salmon (can occur in other fish but is uncommon). The fluke is passed to the dog after ingestion of the infected fish.
Common signs of Salmon poisoning include:
Fever
Lack of appetite (anorexia)
Lethargy
Vomiting
Diarrhea (with or without blood)
Depression
Enlarged lymph nodes
Nasal and eye discharge may be seen in some dogs
Fever
3 comments:
So Glad to have the Big Dog home!
My co-worker tells me that their dogs got sick from scavenged fish, vet told they would treat immediately with antibiotics but that they won't get Salmon Poisoning again because they have been ah...immunized. You might check with your vet about that so Freckles won't have to live quite such a quiet life. Love, R
That is the bright side of it R. You are right, according to all we have read and heard if they live through it they are immune. And Frecks is definetly on the mend, he lost over 15 pounds but has gained some of that back already.
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