Thread: Glyphosate
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Old 27-05-2003, 10:32 PM
Hillary Israeli
 
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Default Glyphosate

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Huskies4all wrote:

*In article ,
says...
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* "Huskies4all" wrote in message
* PS, the cat's fine, went home yesterday after 2 days in the hospital.
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* Hello CJ
* You may want to go to http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/dwh/c-soc/glyphosa.html
* and look there for more info if you think it will help you when you advise
* your patients.
*
*Thanks Allegra. The owner saw the cat walk through the area she sprayed
*almost immediately after the spraying was done. We think that the cat
*then licked the spray off it's fur.

Regarding this product, according to Roger's tox book, Roundup
(glyphosate) is believed to have neglible acute toxicity. It has caused
"transient signs of ocular and dermal irritation after exposure to
recently treated grass"; signs resolve quickly when product is rinsed off.

My search of the Veterinary Information Network found only about three or
four reports of such toxicity, all mild and short-lived, as well as two or
three reports of animals who drank the stuff straight out of the container
and developed some GI distress, requiring at most a very short hospital
stay with IV fluid support to counter the dehydrating effect of the
transient vomiting and diarrhea.

FWIW.

-hillary

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