Hydrogen peroxide dosage

[Laurae]

I just got back from a hike with my dogs. The trail I was on is a local one, adjacent to a graveyard, and the area is home to lots of prairie dogs. Meg and Sophie both found and then quickly scarfed down bits of cheesy hot dog and bun. I wouldn't care about it normally, but lots of people hate the p-dogs and my fear is always that the food the dogs find is poisoned and meant to eradicate the prairie dogs. It's too late to do anything about this incident but watch for signs just in case, but I bought some hydrogen peroxide in case it happens again, and I was wondering if anyone can tell me how much to give them and how soon after food ingestion I'd need to give it to them in order to make them throw up whatever it is they find and eat. Does anyone know?

[Maralynn]

1 teaspoon to every 10# of body weight. I give it with a syringe and it usually works pretty quick

[grenzehund]

The syringe is a good idea. We've put it in a dish of cottage cheese or bread, but have to sort through that to find the undesirable ingested element.

 

Susan

[bcnewe2]

plus you can keep giving the dose every 15 minutes till it works. I would stop at probably 3 doses but I would think they'd be puking by then!

[bcnewe2]

I just noticed the dose you got was 1 tsp for every 10lbs of body weight. I've alwasy gone with a Tablespoon every 15 minutes till they puke. Maybe that's the difference

[Maralynn]

A Tablespoon is 3 teaspoons so that is pretty much the same dose for a BC sized dog. To break that down for syringes the dose is 5cc per 10#.

 

My reference also says you can repeat every 15 min up to 3 doses total. But in my experiance it's only taken one dose to get the desired results.

[Laurae]

A Tablespoon is 3 teaspoons so that is pretty much the same dose for a BC sized dog. To break that down for syringes the dose is 5cc per 10#.

 

My reference also says you can repeat every 15 min up to 3 doses total. But in my experiance it's only taken one dose to get the desired results.

 

Thanks for the replies. I was also wondering how long after the dog ingests something would it be worthwhile to try to induce vomiting. I got home about an hour after they ate the hot dogs, so I assume that is too long a time period (as digestion would have begun by then). But maybe it wasn't too long?

[Journey]

An hour is too long to then dose them. I generally just pour it down their throats. I was told to use it within 15 minutes of ingestion.

[bcnewe2]

yeah but have you ever noticed they can throw up things that are still quite whole long after ingestion? Like hotdogs?

Are they ok?

[Journey]

They only do that when you have no clue that they ate something and you panic trying to figure out what the h*** it *is* they threw up

[MaggieDog]

I talked to my vet about this just last week when I thought Kes had swallowed a magnet.

 

She confirmed that the dose is 5cc/10lbs and there are no toxicity issues with it, so you dose to result. We had old H2O2 so it took waaay more than usual - Kes needed 4 doses (over an hour) before he threw up. No magnet found!