What you don't know CAN hurt you- See if you know how this happened?

[Bogertophis]

Here's a true-story medical mystery sent to me by a friend. See if you can figure out what happened, & do post your guesses below. I'll wait a while to post the rest of the story.

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A man was home from work taking care of his sick child while his wife and the other children were at school. Suddenly the dog keeled over and died, and their other dog was having

seizures and looked terrible. The man called his wife and she ran home and scooped up the dogs and took them to the vet. Then the kids started coming home from school and there

was also a friend of one kid who came over. They all started getting sick and vomiting and having trouble breathing. At this point the man called 911 and got all the kids outside and

they all were taken to the hospital. The kids needed oxygen and their kidneys were showing some distress. They all eventually recovered and were discharged in 2-3 days, but had to

go to a hotel. In the meantime the CDC was called in to check out the house once carbon monoxide was ruled out, and to verify that they were not a drug family. The mom never

showed any symptoms, but was closely watched when she visited the others in the hospital, because it could not yet be ruled out that she had somehow poisoned her family.


They finally figured out what happened...do you know? Hint: It's animal-related.

[Kam]

Was it a nitrous gas like substance emitting from poop or urine just laying around? That’s my only guess.


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[Bogertophis]

Was it a nitrous gas like substance emitting from poop or urine just laying around? That’s my only guess.


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Nope, but keep trying...

[Kam]

Nope, but keep trying...

That’s all I have.


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[Bogertophis]

That’s all I have.


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Don't feel bad at all, this is a tough one & I didn't figure it out either. But I promise it's something more people should know about, which is why I decided to share it here & for a bit of fun.

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Tell us? Please

Not yet...way too soon.

[Kam]

Don't feel bad at all, this is a tough one & I didn't figure it out either. But I promise it's something more people should know about, which is why I decided to share it here & for a bit of fun.

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Not yet...way too soon.

And that’s the sad part. It is going to be something simple and it is going to bother me until the riddle is solved.


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[JacksReptiles]

Tell us? Please

[Lord Sorril]

I don't know the story, but, Carbon Monoxide (which was ruled out) would have been my first guess.

My second guess would be mold (description of symptoms resemble Fusarium)...since mycotoxins are allowed to exist in dog food: dogs can harbor some pretty nasty stuff. If a dog is suffering mycotoxicosis and is shedding spores in its saliva/urine: smaller respiratory systems (e.g. children) would be at a huge disadvantage. Even a healthy dog urinating on a rug repeatedly in the same spot can grow some toxic pathogens relatively fast.

Without more information it could be anything really though: maybe the dogs and kids all sat around together and ate a bad batch of crayons.

[Bogertophis]

And I know some of our members here are into tropical fish & all, so for anyone not aware, I just thought this was well-worth sharing.

It's like something from an episode of HOUSE (the t.v. series), eh? I sure didn't guess it.

I didn't post it under "fish", just under "general pets" so I didn't give too much away.

[Snagrio]

glances nervously at my 125 gallon aquarium


It's freshwater so no "killer corals" but still.