Toad Toxicity
- 5 June 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 314 (23) , 1517-1518
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198606053142320
Abstract
To the Editor: The ingestion or mouthing of some toads is well known by veterinarians to cause severe intoxication, often with fatal outcomes. Dogs and cats become paralyzed and die in many cases of toad ingestion. Salivation, cyanosis, and convulsive seizures are the cardinal clinical signs of bufotoxin ingestion in dogs.1 In severe poisoning, the neurologic effects are the most pronounced clinical feature.2 There has been one newspaper report describing a child who died in 1935 from eating a toad killed by her father,3 and another newspaper report of a woman who became ill after she was exposed to toad . . .This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Toad venom toxicity and its clinical occurrence in small animals in the United KingdomPublished by Wiley ,1974