Intoxica??o em gatos dom?sticos no Brasil - Caracteriza??o dos principais agentes t?xicos e descri??o do conhecimento dos tutores

• Autor(a) principal: Jardim, Mariana Palha de Brito
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/3348
• topic: Felinos; Envenenamento; Toxicologia; Felines; Poisoning; Toxicology; Medicina Veterin?ria

The inappropriate use of drugs and pesticides stand out among the potentially toxic incidental practices for domestic cats in Brazil. The toxic injuries that occur in these animals are related in large part to the ignorance of the tutors about the toxic potential for the species. International agencies actively provide information on toxicities in felines, in Brazil these data are scarce, as a reflection of underreporting to information centers and toxicological assistance and lack of studies. Reports of owners' level of knowledge about cat intoxications are also insufficient. The objective of this study is to characterize the main toxic agents for domestic cats in different regions of Brazil, as well as to describe the level of tutors' knowledge about cat intoxication. Questionnaires on intoxications in domestic cats were distributed from November 2017 to November 2018 to veterinarians from all regions of Brazil who treated into intoxicated cats. The questionnaires, which were composed of 12 questions, were applied through the electronic platform Survey Monkey and also of printed versions. During the same period of time, questionnaires were available to cat tutors from all regions of Brazil, exclusively through the Survey Monkey platform. The questionnaire was composed of eight questions, the purpose of which was to verify the knowledge level of the owners about the occurrence of intoxication in felines. A total of 543 (72.6%) valid response forms were obtained from veterinarians. The main toxicants predicted for domestic cats in Brazil were pesticides and household cleaning products, which accounted for 239 (44.0%) of the occurrences. Paracetamol was the predominant toxicant among the medicinal products for human use, corresponding to 14.4% of total cases, as well as organophosphates stood out in the category of pesticides and household cleaning products, culminating with 10.3% of toxic insults, already as regards plants and derivatives of plant origin, the lily was significant, which intoxicated 3.9% of felines and, finally, tramadol was elevated among veterinary medicinal products, resulting in 3.1% of intoxications. The condensed results were sent to 328/339 (96.75%) of the survey veterinarians. Through the data obtained it was possible to characterize the main toxicants for cats in Brazil and to raise awareness among veterinarians through the alert sent, which may in short reduce the occurrence and predicted fatality for the main intoxications occurring in cats. 202 (72.9%) questionnaires made available to cat tutors were considered valid, and it was verified that the majority of the questionnaires (93.3%) had partial basic knowledge regarding the poisoning occurring in the species. in depth, since only 62 owners (30.7%) considered themselves capable of differentiating what is toxic to cats. 183 tutors (90.6%) received an information leaflet on feline intoxications. Thus, due to the problematic that includes poisoning, the promotion of alerts should be recommended, as conducted in this study, so that the number of cats intoxicated by disinformation of their respective responsible is less.