Hi everyone! My name is Dan, and I am a veterinarian.
In today’s video I am covering if your dog eats garlic or onions. Garlic and onions can make dogs sick. When a dog eats garlic or onions, they start with an upset stomach and intestinal upset. The goal is to make the dog vomit and decontaminate, so the dog can not get even more sick.
If the garlic and onions are allowed to absorb into the dog’s small intestines, more severe symptoms can develop. The more severe symptoms from eating garlic or onions include red blood cell disease. The red blood cells’ in the dog’s body can brake down and make the situation very serious.
If the garlic or onions start to damage the red blood cells, the dog will be hospitalized. The most important thing anyone can do is call their veterinarian right when the dog eats the garlic or onions. Address the garlic or onion ingestion right away, can help prevent serious symptoms.
why vets didn’t say this to us?
My pit bull ate all kinds of table scraps and my wife loves to cook with onions and garlic. She would have consumed quite a lot of food with onion chemicals. She lived to almost 17, was in robust health at 16 and never had a problem like that described here. I looked up the science and evidence behind that and the evidence says that only a huge and almost impossible amount of garlic would poison an animal. The amount of hysteria people have over so many ingredients in food comes from lack of any deep knowledge by most people about something as particular as biochemistry. I have a molecular biology doctorate. It does not make me an expert on each and every food ingredient but it does let me be a bit objective when I look into issues like this one. I have a new puppy and over his life I will not be paranoid about table scraps that may contain some onion or garlic. Raisins, yes, garlic no. On top of it this vet speaks so poorly that I have my doubts he is really a vet.
My dog got big rashes and bites like scabs
This makes me so nervous reading the comments because people say their dogs are fine after eating onions and garlic but the vet is saying it’s really bad for them and I want to do what’s best for my dogs always but the vet is expensive and they expect payment before treatment 😢I could literally lose my dog I just need answers really
My dog ate two whole bulbs of garlic. She puked twice the next day.. then nothing. Relax ppl.. we’re wayyyy too shook up over our dogs these days.