R E V I E W Flashcards
What is the “Threshold dose”?
Dose that is less than or equal to no detrimental effects measured
What is the most common route of toxicant exposure?
Oral (ingestion)
What is a dispositional antidote and what is an example?
Dispositional antidote alters the absorption of toxin, making it less available to tissues (activated charcoal)
0.30% = ____ ppm
3,000
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What are the sources of nitrate? When are the levels the highest?
Sources are plants and commercial fertilizers or stored feces, accumulate in vegetative tissue, highest levels are just before flowering
What is an example of nitrate plant?
Forage Sorghum.
Also corn, wheat, oats, soybeans. Bermuda grass, Hay grasses and some weeds
Desiccation (wilting) of a plant will lower nitrate level of that plant. T/F
False!!! Will increase levels
Ruminants are the most susceptible to ____ toxicosis because the conversion of it in the rumen
Nitrate… they convert nitrate to nitrite in the rumen (which is the more toxic form)
Clinical signs of Nitrate poisoning….
Cyanosis, brownish cast to mm and dark, chocolate colored blood
Nitrate poisoning diagnosis—>
Weakness +/- hypoxia and chocolate brown blood
Tx of Nitrate toxicity:
Methylene blue
What test is done in the field for nitrate levels by testing the forages???
Diphenylamine test
Excess copper evaluation is done by this ratio..; what level is considered dangerous???
Cu:Mo ratio
>25:1 is dangerous
What’s the gold standard of testing for Copper toxicosis?
Liver biopsy
Copper toxicosis on necropsy will show this….
Gun metal blue kidneys, enlarged black/brown liver and spleen. Pale organs
Clinical signs of sulfur:
Violent purgation, colic, “Muddy” mucous membranes, ADR/lethargy
Necropsy shows what with sulfur toxicosis???
GI issues, congested liver and kidneys, excessive gas in GI tract (rotten egg smell bc of hydrogen sulfide)
Sulfur toxicosis in cattle is from _____ and ___ ____
Pasture and water sources (with high sulfate contents)
Signs assoc. sulfur = what condition?
signs assoc. with PEM (Polioencephalomacia)
What are the diagnosis of sulfur toxicosis:
Look at environment, do a full PE, check for lead poisoning
Treatment of PEM from sulfur toxicosis:
Thiamine, remove the animals from the possible source
Sodium Ion toxicosis water deprivation– Salt toxicity is directly related to low ____ _______. What species are most sensitive?
water consumption; swine are most sensitive
Clinical signs from sodium ion toxicosis/water deprivation:
Head pressing, disorientation, aimlessly walking/circling, blindness, dog sitting, paddling/seizures, death eventually
Pigs with salt poisoning = _____ ______
Eosinophilic meningoencephalitis
COWS LOVE ____
ARSENIC
Arsenic toxicosis:
Inorganic forms include:
!!!More toxic!!!!
Pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, cotton defoliants, insulation materials, and wood preservatives
Arsenic toxicosis:
Organic forms:
Herbicides (cacodylic acid, MSMA and DMSA) and feed additives
What are “The 3 D’s” associated with arsenic toxicosis?
Diarrhea, dehydration, death
Beside the 3 D’s, which also occurs as a clinical sign with arsenic toxicity?
Neuro signs
What is the Tx of arsenic toxicosis?
Activated charcoal, oil demulcents, FLUIDSSS!!!, sodium thiosulfate, dimercaprol (BAL)