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Calcium salts (ice/snow melt)
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- Calcium salts (ice/snow melt)
- Summary
- Calcium salts — including calcium carbonate, calcium chloride, and calcium magnesium acetate — are common active ingredients in ice and snow melt products. According to Pet Poison Helpline and ASPCA sources, they are described as the most severe irritants among ice melt ingredients, capable of causing significant gastrointestinal signs upon ingestion and local irritation (including chemical burns) on skin and paw pads upon dermal contact; calcium chloride in particular can cause oral ulceration. Typical signs of exposure include vomiting, diarrhea, drooling, oral irritation and ulcers, and in more serious cases tremors, seizures, and cardiac arrhythmias, though large ingestions are unlikely to cause hypercalcemia due to the multiple physiological factors required for calcium absorption.
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