Intestinal Foreign Body With Concurrent Canine Parvovirus Enteritis In A Dog: A Case Report

Abstract

Dogs eat all sorts of objects ranging from rocks, nails, grass, paper, bones and faeces. This condition of ingestion of nonfood material is referred to as Pica (Overall, 2005). Occasionally, objects that the dog would only chew onto or hold in its mouth are inadvertently swallowed. Fortunately, most objects that make it to the stomach are either digested or simply passed out with the stool or regurgitated. Wooden foreign bodies have been identified in the stomach and abdominal cavity of dogs (Penninck and Mitchell, 2003 and Hunt et al., 2003). Pneumothorax resulting from perforation of the stomach and diaphragm sequel to ingestion of foreign body has also been reported (Hunt et al., 2003). Horstman et al (2003) diagnosed gastric foreign body from survey abdominal radiograph of a dog where a large aggregate of solidified wood glue was surgically removed. The development of anuric renal failure associated with zinc intoxication was also detected in a dog following ingestion of an ornamental brass knob from a toilet paper holder (Volmer et al., 2004). These show that ingestion of foreign body may pose a severe consequence in dogs.

Keywords: Diarrhoea, Foreign body, Metal rods

Nigerian Veterinary Journal Vol. 28 (3) 2007 pp. 64-66