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March 30, 2016
Wallowa County Chieftain
Making the right choices the easy choices
By Kenneth Rose and
Emily Sheahan
For The Chieftain
Wallowa Memorial Hospital has
Eeen focusing on the health and
wellness of our community over the
past few years in part Ey providing
the Complete Health Improvement
Program CHIP), and now Ey focus-
ing on helping our community Ee-
come a “Blue Zone.” Dan Buettner
is a world renowned explorer and
author who has written several
Eooks on the “Blue Zones,” the fo-
cus in a 1ational *eographic article
that descriEed the ¿ve Blue Zones
around the world where there are
more people who are living active
lives well into their 100s.
Buettner suEsequently has done
a lot of research into what were
some commonalities Eetween the
lifestyle haEits of these ¿ve Blue
Zones. He found nine common haE-
Courtesy photo
Dr. Kenneth D. Rose
its or practices called the “Power
1ine,” which include moving nat-
urally, having a purpose, eating a
plant-slant diet and having strong
social ties.
In his most recent Eook, “Blue
Zone Solutions,” he shares how they
have incorporated the nine practices
into communities across the United
States in order to help people live
longer and healthier lives.
“It’s not just how long we live,
it’s also how well we live,” Buettner
writes. “People in the Blue Zones
cultures not only live longer lives,
they often live Eetter lives, with
health, meaning and love — dying
young as old as possiEle.”
Buettner emphasizes that the ma-
jority of those living over 100 years
in these Blue Zones are not trying to
do so, they just do it Eecause their
cultures are such that “the healthy
choice is the easy choice. ... The
path to a long, healthy life comes
from creating an environment
around yourself, your family and
your community that nudges you
into following the right Eehaviors
suEtly and relentlessly ...”
If $mericans could follow the
examples of the people in the Blue
Zones they could lose an average of
20 pounds, cut their rates of heart
disease in half and suffer aEout a
¿fth the rate of diaEetes and certain
cancers. With those kinds of health
Eene¿ts, who wouldn’t want to live
in that kind of environment?
2n FeE. 9 a team from the 2r-
egon Blue Zones Project shared a
presentation at Cloverleaf Hall in
Enterprise.
To Eecome a Blue Zone, a com-
munity must involve individuals,
city departments, Eusinesses, gro-
cery stores and restaurants in pledg-
ing to make changes to what we eat,
how we exercise and relate to one
another. $ Blue Zone community
requires a pledge and action from
20 percent of citizens, 50 percent
of top 20 employers, 25 percent of
independent restaurants, 25 percent
of puElic schools and 25 percent of
grocery stores. The pledge includes
a checklist of lifestyle changes,
community and Eusiness projects,
as well as menu and product chang-
es to promote healthier lifestyles.
$s health care practitioners, we
are excited to take part in continu-
ing to help our community make
healthy choices for a longer and
healthier life. This is an exciting
opportunity for our community
and we are hoping that individuals,
Eusinesses and schools will join the
movement. We encourage you to
go to the Blue Zone weEsite www.
Eluezonesproject.com) and learn
more aEout how each of us can get
involved.
Kenneth D. Rose, MD, is a
general surgeon at Mountain View
Medical Group in Enterprise. Dr.
Emily Sheahan, MD is Family
Medicine/Obstetrics specialist at
Mountain View Medical Group.
Spring community Health Look for signs of canine
Worker training available Salmon Poisoning Disease
Course will
ready trainees
to help residents
with health care
services
Wallowa County Chieftain
Do you have a passion for
your community? Would you
like to increase your skills
and Eecome part of a new
workforce? 1ortheast 2re-
gon 1etwork 1E21) can
help you do just that with up-
coming Community Health
Worker training sessions in
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ers are a community-Eased
resource that works with in-
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and the community as a whole
to help navigate the health
care and social service sys-
tems to improve lives in their
area.
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The 1E21 CHW training
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Licking an
infected fish can
kill a dog
By Dr. Jereld Rice
For The Chieftain
Take a drive up the river
on any given day and you’ll
Vee ¿Vhermen at every Eend.
FolkV ¿Vhing alone, otherV
with a friend or two, and
those spending the day on the
river with man’s Eest friend
— a faithful dog. Those of us
who live in the 3aci¿c 1orth-
west and have a dog we love,
weather we ¿sh or not, must
know aEout the life-threaten-
ing disease known as “salm-
on poisoning.”
Every year, thousands
of dogs in our corner of the
country Eecome severely ill
after ingesting raw, cold-
smoked or kippered ¿sh. $s
the name implies, salmon
play a key role in this disease
that can infect any memEer of
the canine species.
+owever, other ¿sh, such
as trout, steelhead, lamprey,
sculpin and others also can
transmit the infectious, Eac-
terial, disease-causing organ-
ism.
Dogs that are exposed
to the pathogen can Eecome
deathly ill Ey eating or even
just licking) any part of an
infected ¿sh. Though not all
¿sh will carry the infectious
organism, there is no oEvi-
ous way to know which ¿sh
will transmit the disease and
which ones won’t.
Clinical signs or symp-
toms) of salmon poisoning
are remarkaEly similar to a
numEer of other canine dis-
eases, such as parvo, distem-
per, ehrlichiosis and some
types of toxicities or poison-
ing. Infected dogs typically
don’t show signs of disease
for up to - days and some-
times as many as 30 days)
after eating the infected ¿sh,
which can make salmon
poisoning a diagnostic chal-
lenge.
The ¿rst sign of salmon
poisoning is a mild elevation
in temperature followed Ey
loss of appetite, lethargy and
a fever that may get as high
as 107 degrees.
If the dog does not die
from the extreme Eody tem-
perature, clinical signs or
symptoms will continue to
develop.
%y the fourth or ¿fth day
after clinical signs devel-
op, Eody temperature often
will decrease and may even
Ee within the normal range
though it is a false “normal”
resulting from dehydration).
Dogs that have salmon poi-
soning disease will start to
vomit, appear to have sunken
eyes from dehydration, and
diarrhea will Eecome profuse
and is often times Eloody.
$s vomiting and diarrhea
persist, dogs Eecome se-
verely dehydrated and Eody
temperature often falls well
Eelow normal. 2f the dogs
that do not receive veterinary
care, 90 percent of affected
dogs will die within 14 days
of the onset of clinical signs.
Contrary to its name,
Salmon Poisoning Disease
is not caused directly Ey the
¿sh itself, Eut rather Ey a mi-
croscopic organism known
as 1eorickettsia helmintheca
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that is found in a microscopic
¿sh Àuke named 1anophye-
tus Salmincola. When a dog
eats or possiEly even licks)
an infected ¿sh and ingests
the infected Àuke, it also Ee-
comes infected. The 1eorick-
ettsial organism infects the
lymph nodes and causes se-
vere intestinal inÀammation,
resulting in an immune re-
sponse that triggers extreme
fever, profuse diarrhea and
severe vomiting.
Prognosis for dogs that
are diagnosed with salmon
poisoning is dependent on
how far the disease has pro-
gressed. Dogs that are pre-
sented to a veterinarian early
in the course of disease may
Ee given a very optimistic
prognosis, while dogs that
have more advanced disease
may Ee given a poor to grave
prognosis.
Treating salmon poison-
ing can Ee relatively simple
or exceptionally challenging
depending on how far the
disease has progressed. Dogs
that have Eeen displaying
clinical signs for several days
are generally severely dehy-
drated and reTuire I9 Àuid
therapy to restore hydration.
$dditional therapy is aimed
at eliminating the 1eorick-
ettsial organism, stopping the
vomiting and supporting the
digestive system as it heals.
Most dogs that show clinical
signs of salmon poisoning re-
quire hospitalization.
The Eest treatment is pre-
vention:
• Keep close track of
where your dog is and what
he is eating will help your
dog avoid the perils of salm-
on poisoning.
• Wrap garEage, especial-
ly ¿sh entrails, and dispose
of in well-secured trash cans.
• If you do feed ¿sh to
your dog, ensure that it has
Eeen well cooked or deep
freeze it for a minimum of
two weeks to destroy the dis-
ease causing agent prior to
feeding it to your dog.
• When you are ¿shing,
keep dogs well away from
raw ¿sh.
Ignoring your dog’s whine
as he Eegs for a morsel of
fresh ¿sh may save Eoth of
you a heap of trouEle and
even a life.
Jereld Rice, DVM, owns
and operates Enterprise
Animal Hospital.