Senior Dogs Blog

I wanted to let everyone know that the blue LED flashing lights from older computers can be hazardous to your pet’s health. My five year old Spitz mix experienced epileptic like symptoms, at night, for two days.
My wife and I were just about to bring him into the vet when I was doing research late at night and realized something that was bothering me may be what is bothering my dog. According to a few articles I read:
Blue LEDs: A health hazard?
The Blue Light Hazard

It turns out that blue LED lights can be quite dangerous to humans causing, eyestrain headaches, and disturbed sleep.

These same problems most likely occur if our senior dogs are exposed too. What’s more, as soon as I turned off the computer (which I normally never leave on), and the blue light stopped blinking, my dog slowly began to calm down and within five minutes acted normal again. Up until that point he experienced all of the following symptoms:

Confusion
Disorientation
Pacing
Restlessness

All of these symptoms are also associated with the Postictal state of dog seizures. I just worry that there are some cases in which dogs are brought to their veterinarian with these symptoms, caused by the blinking LED, and unnecessarily prescribed drugs to alleviate them. It just so happened that I figured out what was going on but if I did not my dog would probably be on meds now.