The common food ingredients or chemicals that dogs should be kept away from

You share almost everything with your dog. Your home, your bed, your pillow, your cookies, your feelings, and you even pick up your dog’s medication from the human pharmacy. While sharing all that is fine, you must draw the line at certain food items and other consumables like chocolates and toothpaste. Is toothpaste bad for dogs? Heck Yes!

If you are one of the parents of a pet who faced this dilemma and thought about brushing your furball’s teeth with toothpaste, or feeding them chocolates, macadamia nuts, or even garlic bread, you need to read on.

There are few abundantly found components in human food that are extremely harmful to your dog. They are:

1. Fluoride: If your fur animal ingests large amounts of fluoride at one time, acute fluoride toxicity can result from long-term ingestion. When a pet's parents brush their fur teeth with fluoride toothpaste, the dog's body absorbs enough fluoride for months or years after frequent use of toothpaste and the levels of toxicity in the body. To reach. Some of the signs of fluoride toxicity in dogs are:

●      Excessive drool

●      Restlessness

●      Nausea or vomiting

●      Weaknesses

●      Lack of bladder control

●      Seizures in severe cases.

If you're wondering if a dog is bad at eating toothpaste, yes, most human toothpaste contains enough fluoride to poison the dog.

1. Xylitol: You may have heard of xylitol and that it is becoming a part of our daily lives as a common sugar alternative to food. Xylitol is one of the components of human toothpaste and is a sugar alcohol that is considered safe for humans. However, the toxicity of this product to our dog companions is rapid. High doses of Xylitol can significantly reduce sugar content in 10 to 15 minutes, causing life-threatening conditions in dogs. High intakes of products containing xylitol, such as toothpaste, mint, sugar-free chewing gum, or other human foods that contain the natural sweetener xylitol, can cause liver failure in dogs. Xylitol is extremely dangerous to your dog and is one of the main ingredients that makes human toothpaste toxic to dogs.
2. Methylxanthines: Chocolate contains toxic substances for a dog (called methylxanthines). They act as stimulants stopping a dog’s metabolic process. Even just a little bit of chocolate, (especially dark chocolate) can cause diarrhea and vomiting. Large amounts can even cause seizures, irregular heart functioning, and death. If your dog consumes chocolate, contact a veterinarian or take it to the emergency hospital for pets as soon as possible.
3. Garlic, onions, chives, leeks, and other allium family food: No, the dogs cannot consume any amounts of garlic, onions, leeks, and chives. Garlic is five times more toxic than any other allium family plant. Poisoning from onions and garlic will have delayed symptoms. So if your dog has consumed some, wait and monitor it for a few days and not right after consumption.

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