Toxico Flashcards
Larkspur
Sudden death, toxin?
Diterpenoid alcaloid
Treat with physoistigmine or neostigmine
Create aversion with Lithium Chloride
Treatment for cyanide toxicity
Sodium thiosulfate
Sodium nitrate
Nitrate toxicity
Congenital hypothyroidism if iodine is not the cause
Tx. Methylene blue, cold water and vinegar
Nitrate levels are higher at night and early morning
Perennial rye grass staggers
Neotuphodium lolii (endophyte) produce toxin lolitrem B
Braken fern
Pteridium aquilinum
Ptaquiloside
Tx with thiamine
Equine (arched neck) Sheep (blindness) Ruminant (aplastic anemia) Low platelet Bladder cancer
Flatweed
Hypochoeris radicata
Bilateral stringhalt
Tx phenytoin
Buckeye
Dorso-medial strab in ruminants
Locoweed
Swaisonime (neuro signs)
Sudden death ( due to methemoglobin)
Pulm emphys in sheep
Selenium toxicosis
Locoweed predispose what cardiac condition
High mountain disease/brisket disease
Locoweed dx
Measure swansonine or Alfa mannosidase
Grass staggers
Paspalum spp
Toxin is ergot alkaloids
Sudan grass
Posterior ataxia in horses
Cystitis
Hydrocyanide
Atypical myopathy
Box elder seeds (Acer negundo) Fatal rhabdom Clostridium sordeli toxin Hypoglycin A Lipid accum in muscle Test for ethylmalonic/methyl succinic acid in urine and serum acylcarnitines
Day blooming jasmines
Calcinosis
Vitamin D like compounds
White snakeroot
Tremetol