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Lab swallowed broken glass...DVM help please

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cohibasymas
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He puked all over the floor this morning after I took him out...no glass then..was acting strangely/sickly though. This afternoon, dog puked again and she found the glass in his vomit. She's on the way to the vet now. What to expect?

Thank you in advance.


[This message has been edited by cohibasymas (edited 11/13/2012 2:32p).]
MouthBQ98
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I'd say this late in the game, get to a vet. Any pink or blood in the vomit?

I'm not a DV, but am a dog breeder with several dogs at any one time. One of my collies once knocked a pyrex bowl of rice off the counter, and consumed the rice and glass.

We gave him a good slug of hydrogen peroxide, and he vomited up the rice and glass, and with no ill effects.

The lining of the digestive tract is very tough, and also very slick with mucous, and therefore hard to cut. Wild dogs swallow bone shards and all kinds of sharp things, after all. If whatever they swallow makes them uncomfortable or nauseous, they'll puke it back up. That's why they sometimes eat a ton of grass..to help them puke so their stomaches will settle.

A teaspoon of table salt will also make your dog puke in an emergency, with no ill effects in the long term. We've fed our showdogs a RAW food diet for 7 years, and they're all healthy. In all that time, I've had to dislodge 2 bones stuck in teeth, and a few times they've puked up a sharper bone fragment that didn't sit well.

Odds are your dog is fine, but you want to consult the vet for sure.

I've had to piece together a dog vomit covered pyrex bowl, and a vomit covered picante sauce jar to make sure that the great majority of big glass fragments were not still inside the dog...yuck.

[This message has been edited by MouthBQ98 (edited 11/13/2012 3:03p).]
shiftyandquick
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glass should show up in an x-ray. So it can be monitored, if that is deemed necessary. I would think surgery would be a last resort in the case of perforation.
DVM97
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Do you know where the glass came from???? What type if glass? All if this comes into play when deciding what to do next.

Good luck!!

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cohibasymas
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Wife just left the vet. X-rays seem to be fine, they've put him on several meds...and they want to see him back in 48 hours for another x-ray to check out a spot in his eso****us that the doc couldn't tell for sure whether or not is glass. Unfortunately my conversations with my wife have been so brief that I don't have too many more details and won't get more until I get home late tonight.

Thanks for the thoughts/suggestions all. I'll update as this progresses.
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