Final Exam: Commercial, Home, Personal Care Products Flashcards
How would you treat a coorosive/caustic intoxication?
Dilute with (1) water or (2) milk
Which is more severe, acid or alkali corrosives?
Alkali
Which is more common, acid or alkali corrosives?
Alkali
What type of necrosis do acid corrosives/caustics cause?
Localized coagulative necrosis
What type of necrosis do alkali corrosives/caustics cause?
Liquifactive necrosis
Which more easily penetrates tissue, acid or alkali corrosives/caustics?
Alkali
Which causes full thickness esophageal burns, mucosal sloughing, and scarring that results in strictures, acid or alkali corrosives/caustics?
Alkali
Are solvents lipid soluble or liphophilic?
Lipid soluble
Do solvents penetrate the skin easily or not?
Yes, penetrate intact skin
What are 2 animals at high risk for solvent toxicity?
- Dogs
2. Birds
What are the systemic effects associated with solvents?
- GI: vomiting
- CNS: depression
- Skin and eye irritant
- Respiratory: aspiration pneumonia (coughing, dyspnea, pleuritis)
- Cardiac arrest
- Bone marrow suppression
What is the chemical composition of Gorilla glue?
Polyurethane
What is the chemical composition of superglue?
Cyanoacrylate
What is the active ingredient in Gorilla glue?
Diphenylmethane diisocyanate
What is Gorilla glue so dangerous?
Expandable
How would you diagnose a polyurethane ingestion?
Radiography
What is the appropriate therapy for a gorilla glue ingestion?
Gastrotomy to remove the large mass
How would you handle superglue stuck to a patient’s hair?
- Clip hair
2. Soak with acetone
What would be the clinical pathology you would expect with play dough ingestion?
Hypernatremia
What are the clinical signs associated with play dough ingestion?
- Vomiting
- Tremors
- PU/PD
- Seizures
What do mothballs contain?
- Naphthalene
2. Paradichlorobenzene
How many mothballs would an animal have to ingest for it to be toxic?
1
What would you see on clinical pathology following mothball ingestion?
- Methemoglobinemia
- Heinz body formation
- Hemoglobinuria
- Hypoxia
How would one go about treating a mothball ingestion?
- Emesis, charcoal, carthartics
- Methylene blue
- IV bicarbonate
What does the IV bicarbonate do for mothball ingestion?
Decreases the precipitate of hemoglobin in the renal tubules
What are the ingredients in paintballs?
- Polyethylene glycol
- Glycerin
- Sorbitol
- Sodium
What would you see on clin path with paintball ingestion?
Hypernatremia
What type of clinical signs are associated with nicotine pathch ingestion?
Signs mimicing acetylcholine release: salivation, vomiting, tachycardia, tremors, mydriasis, CNS depression, paresis, respiratory failure
