Hershey's Kisses
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| I think you did the exact right thing.... now call your veterinarian and see if s/he wants you to do that again, bring her in, or wait and see. I'd GUESS that it will be a wait and see (or bring her in), but I really would call and ask.
The GREAT news is that aluminum foil ought to show up nicely on realtively inexpensive x-rays if an obstruction is suspected in a few days. |
| Can't give any better advice/help than Ron,but from experience I have acavalier king charles spanial that ate a wad of regular aluminum foil didn't know til it came out.The candy foil wrapers is alot thinner so it should not be to much problem. |
Ron wrote: aluminum foil ought to show up nicely on realtively inexpensive x-rays if an obstruction is suspected in a few days.
How does one learn to see signs of a possible obstruction? The pup stops eliminating? I do worry about Peppo ingesting stuff. He loves used paper napkins, various house plants, flowers, yard foliage and twigs. I try to remove things from his mouth whenever I see him doing it, but I am sure he is ingesting an assortment of things he is not supposed to, both at home and on walks. I try to minimize the stuff available, but of course, it is virtually impossible to cover all bases. I figure most of it is relatively safe (I did see some undigested grass in his stools last week), but do worry that I won't see signs of him having ingested something real bad. Thanks again! |
| I think the signs would be of distress; not eating, discomfort but I'm not sure. I would be watching for changes in behavior for a few days to a week. |
| A few Valentines days back Tasker ate two bags of foil wrapped candy, Reeses PNut butter cups and Hershey's kisses. I rushed him off to the Vet terrified that the chocolate would do him in.
The Vet did the hydrogen peroxide to make him vomit and sent us home with another syringe to repeat when we got home. Surprisingly the Vet told us that although chocolate can be deadly for dogs the "toxic" amount is weight based and for a 97 lb dog it was a considerable amount (WAY more than the two bags). Unfortunately Tasker had gotten into the chocolate during the day so by the time we were able to make him vomit most had passed out of his stomach. For the next several days his stool was full of brightly wrapped chocolate candies, most still intact. I joked that we could have rinsed them off and put them back in the candy dish. So, he passed the foil without difficulty and in actuality got very little chocolate. That spring, when the snow melted we continued to find the wrapped candies in yard in places we had missed 
The Vet did not xray, just told us to make sure he continued to have BM's without difficulty. |
Cadenza wrote: Ron wrote: aluminum foil ought to show up nicely on realtively inexpensive x-rays if an obstruction is suspected in a few days. How does one learn to see signs of a possible obstruction? The pup stops eliminating? I do worry about Peppo ingesting stuff. He loves used paper napkins, various house plants, flowers, yard foliage and twigs. I try to remove things from his mouth whenever I see him doing it, but I am sure he is ingesting an assortment of things he is not supposed to, both at home and on walks. I try to minimize the stuff available, but of course, it is virtually impossible to cover all bases. I figure most of it is relatively safe (I did see some undigested grass in his stools last week), but do worry that I won't see signs of him having ingested something real bad. Thanks again! My sisters Cavalier has had obstructed bowel a few times - the signs of obstruction are pretty obvious, they may poop a bit at first but then after a few hours or a day no longer do and will strain a bit. they may also vomit up bile because of the obstruction keeping them from passing stomache contents through the intestine properly. With the Cav, her last episode was during my mother's funeral of all times and I know it was a couple of days before the vet was certain and did surgery, assuming it could take longer for a larger dog you probably have to watch them for a week or so. My sister lives in Florida and ended up having to have two date nut palm trees removed from her yard because that was her issue - even though they normally walked the dog in the yard with a muzzle on to keep her from eating the nuts. |
| Get to the vet NOW!!!!!!!! A few years ago, Annie ate 3 pounds of Hershey's miniatures and the foils. The vet will monitor elimination. |
| Vet is a good idea--phone call at least. I'm guessing your dog will be fine, but it is a good idea to be safe.
Some years back, my first OES (100 lb of fluff) ate 16 fundraiser sized gold foil wrapped chocolate bars.--at least a pound of chocolate. I called the vet who wasn't concerned about the chocolate because of the doseage size and the chocolate was milk chocolate and not a high % cocoa. It was several hours before we discovered Merlin's pilfering, so hydrogen peroxide was no longer a real need. She had us watch him, and sure enough, over the next day or so, we saw the golden evidence of his thievery. |
| I would go to the vet just to be sure. When Winston was a puppy, he ate a whole bag of Hersey kisses I had wrapped in individual celophane bags. The vet made a HUGE deal about how bad this was- I have read other things about this not being as bad as the vet said - but you never know. Why take a chance.
Stephanie & Winston |
| Actually cellaphane can be a real problem. I suspect your vet was worried about that as much as anything. |
| Thank you all for your advice. I had gotten her to vomit and called the vet in the morning. He said that if there was a problem she would vomit again on her own in the next 24hrs. He wasn't too concerned about the foil stating that it would pass on it's own and not cause any internal damage.
All is well and thanks again for your support. Danelle |
| At least it will make poop cleaning a bit more interesting for a few days.
When my guys eat something I worry about, I give then a teaspoon of Metamucil in their meal and a big dose of chicken stock to wet the fiber. Then I encourage more liquid consumption through dilture stock and water. Figure the fiber mass will help push out the offending matter, in this case tin foil. |
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