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Nursed a dog through agonizing, smelly, visually disturbing 16 hours after incidental contact with Poke root. Think he's gonna be okay.
TIL people are making pies with Poke. No. Don't. Leave poke plants alone. They have 3 ways (that I know of) to kill any mammal, all of them extremely unpleasant.
#PSA #poke
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/phytolacca-americana/
@b4cks4w Someone cooked it and the doggo ate it? :(
@TrueBloodNet I dug it up and he grabbed it (stick!). Just that mouthing is all it took. Can't overstress: don't trifle with this plant.
The local urgent vet referred me to poison control, which was not immediately aware of poke, so more PSA (incl. humans): small ingestion: for the next 12 hours try to stay hydrated, take sugar and salt. Ice broth chips. Get to an MD for gastric and cardiac check.
Larger ingestion: get to an MD for emergency hydration and cardiac support. Poke puts a LOT of stress on the guts and heart. No one needs to deal with that and some won't be up to it.
Ok, done, sorry to be a bummer.