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Can dogs eat Epsom salt?

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Overview

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Epsom salt baths can soothe dogs' sore muscles and skin issues but ingesting it is harmful, causing diarrhea, dehydration, and potentially hypermagnesemia, leading to serious health issues like muscle weakness, heart problems, and even cardiac arrest.

Risks

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  • Epsom salt can be used externally in a bath to soothe sore muscles, relieve itching, and help wounds and skin problems to heal faster. However, ingestion of Epsom salt can be harmful to dogs.
  • Epsom salt has a laxative effect. When consumed, dogs may experience diarrhea and dehydration.
  • Ingesting large amounts of Epsom salt can cause hypermagnesemia in dogs, which is a condition where there is an elevated level of magnesium in the blood. This results in adverse health problems, including gastrointestinal upset, muscle weakness, abnormal heart rhythms, respiratory failure, renal dysfunction, and cardiac arrest.
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