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     _________________________________________________________________ Poisons (incl. plants, food & household chemicals)    The information in this section is mostly condensed from Carlson &    Giffins. The list of poisons is not intended to be conclusive. Nor are    the treatments intended to be sufficient: call your vet in the event    of any internal poisoning.    In particular, notice that the list of problematic plants cannot be    all inclusive. There are many plants with multiple names and even a    botanist can't come up with a conclusive list. This is why you will    almost never see identical lists put out by different organizations.    When in doubt, try to go by the most regional information you can    find, which is the most likely to use names current in your regions.   TREATMENT AFTER INGESTION    To induce vomiting in cats:      * Hydrogen peroxide 3% (most effective): One teaspoon every ten        minutes; repeat three times.      * One-fourth teaspoonful of salt, placed at the back of the tongue.      * Syrup of Ipecac (one teaspoonful per ten pounds of body weight).    Do NOT induce vomiting when the cat      * has swallowed an acid, alkali, solvent, heavy duty cleaner,        petroleum product, tranquilizers, or a sharp _object_ (i.e.,        something that will cause as much or more damage coming back up)      * is severely depressed or comatose      * swallowed the substance more than two hours ago    You will also want to coat the digestive tract and speed up    elimination to help rid the cat of the substances: To delay or prevent    absorption      * Mix activated charcoal with water (5 grams to 20 cc.). Give one        teaspoonful per two pounds body weight.      * Thirty minutes later, give sodium sulphate (glauber's salt), one        teaspoon per ten pounds body weight, or Milk of Magnesia, one        teaspoon per five pounds body weight.      * In the absence of any of these agents, coat the bowel with milk,        egg whites, vegetable oil and give a warm water enema.    If your cat has a poisonous substance on its skin or coat, wash it off    before your cat licks the substance off and poisons itself. Use soap    and water or give it a complete bath in lukewarm (not cold) water.   GREENHOUSE PLANTS    Plants from commercial greenhouses may be sprayed with systemics to    control pests. Some are fairly nasty and long-lasting. More    enlightened greenhouses use integrated pest management techniques and    vastly reduce the costs of pest control, and costs to the environment.    You'll need to ask about what the sprays are, how often, etc. They    should have MSDS (material safety data sheets) on hand for everything    they use. Many greenhouses also buy foliage plants (esp.) from    commercial growers in southern states, rather than raising their own    plants, so you need to ask about that too.   HOUSEHOLD PLANTS      * Gives a rash after contact: chrysanthemum; creeping fig; weeping        fig; pot mum; spider mum.      * Irritating; the mouth gets swollen; tongue pain; sore lips