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  2. Oxalate - Wikipedia

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    Although unusual, consumption of oxalates (for example, the grazing of animals on oxalate-containing plants such as Bassia hyssopifolia, or human consumption of wood sorrel or, specifically in excessive quantities, black tea) may result in kidney disease or even death due to oxalate poisoning.

  3. Hyperoxaluria - Wikipedia

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    Hyperoxaluria is an excessive urinary excretion of oxalate. Individuals with hyperoxaluria often have calcium oxalate kidney stones. It is sometimes called Bird's disease, after Golding Bird, who first described the condition.

  4. Ethylene glycol poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Ethylene glycol has been shown to be toxic to humans [16] and is also toxic to domestic pets such as cats and dogs. A toxic dose requiring medical treatment varies but is considered more than 0.1 mL per kg body weight (mL/kg) of pure substance. That is roughly 16 mL of 50% ethylene glycol for an 80 kg adult and 4 mL for a 20 kg child.

  5. Five common MS plants that can cause problems for your pets ...

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    However, castor bean toxicity in animals can be dangerous. How dangerous depends on how much is consumed by the dog or cat or any other animal. Castor bean has bold, tropical-looking foliage and ...

  6. Oxalic acid - Wikipedia

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    Plants normally produce it in small amounts, but some pathogenic fungi such as Sclerotinia sclerotiorum cause a toxic accumulation. [50] Oxalate, besides being biosynthesised, may also be biodegraded. Oxalobacter formigenes is an important gut bacterium that helps animals (including humans) degrade oxalate. [51]

  7. Beware: Your Rhubarb Can Potentially Make You Sick - AOL

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    Trout clarifies that the oxalates that make rhubarb leaves toxic can also be found in the stalks (or petioles, if we want to get technical). But the concentration isn’t high enough to pose a ...

  8. List of poisonous plants - Wikipedia

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    The plant contains chemicals that are toxic to animals including humans, but it has also been used as a medicine. All parts of the plant contain protoanemonin, which can cause severe skin and gastrointestinal irritation, bitter taste and burning in the mouth and throat, mouth ulcers, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and hematemesis. [47] Anthurium spp.

  9. Sarcobatus - Wikipedia

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    Although it can be grazed by animals that are adapted, grazing of greasewood by sheep and cattle can result in oxalate poisoning resulting in kidney failure. [5] The active agent can be either sodium oxalate or potassium oxalate. Sheep are the most vulnerable. The wood is yellow, very hard and tough. [6]