Stanley - abscess on belly - Healing yay!

[user 78]

Yay no more green nastiness!!! I always found it amazing how excited we all get when we get the green goo.. and then how excited we get to see the green goo gone! Lots of love to the Stan-Man!

 

[mamarat2]

I took him back yesterday to have it looked at, ewwwwww

Its nasty, she left a little hole to warm compress it and to drop some meds into it. It has "that small" ugh.......Can't tell if it looks better today, but the hole has not closed up and its still draining so thats a good thing. Heading out of town for the night, so my petsitter *vet tech* who I know is coming over tonight to medicate and take care of him.

Poor Stan Stan!!

 

[mamarat]

Awww no! Poor sweetie. :tumkiss:

 

[jorats]

ugh... not again.

 

[user 78]

Are you still flushing it? Sounds like it needs flushing atleast twice a day, maybe 3 times, since there's so many issues with it. Also, I don't know how old Stan is, but maybe upping his dosage of Baytril to a higher mg/kg may help some. My vet has told me that as they're on Baytril through their lives, eventually you do need to up the dosage to account for them building up a tolerance.

 

[mamarat2]

Are you still flushing it? Sounds like it needs flushing atleast twice a day, maybe 3 times, since there's so many issues with it. Also, I don't know how old Stan is, but maybe upping his dosage of Baytril to a higher mg/kg may help some. My vet has told me that as they're on Baytril through their lives, eventually you do need to up the dosage to account for them building up a tolerance.

I did up the baytril dosage a bit higher than his brothers (same weight) and Stan has only been on baytril once before. I've been warm compessing it, she didn't really say to flush it. Vet gave me some enzymes stuff to topically put on it.

I gave him his meds when we got back in again today and compresses the area. It looks much cleaner today and the hole is still open. There is a hard spot a bit further up but I think that may be scarring?? It doesn't feel like fluid, more like tissue. I will be talking to the vet Monday again.

 

[lilspaz68]

If you can fit a syringe in, I would flush it out. I have had wonderful success with flushing alone without meds for healing and no recurrence. If he doens't handle that, try a saline sitz bath in a sink instead. Don't forget...long sleeved shirt! :wink2:

 

[user 78]

I'm with Shelagh. I'd go ahead and do the flushes or sitz baths. While it's important to keep it open so it can drain, that alone doesn't get all the goop out. Even if there's no more real pus, the infection's in the.. stuff that's still in the cavity. Make sense?

As far as the enzyme stuff, though, is it's purpose to be something like Neosporin? I'd be concerned about it healing on the surface before the inside heals.

 

[mamarat2]

Talked to vet today and she says the harder stuff I feel is probably the granulation tissue filling in as it tends to feel like that. When I do warm compresses I have been making sure the warm water gets all around inside to at least get the stuff moving. I want to make sure that it looks right so she said to bring him by Wednesday night when she is at the ER clinic as she is not on normal hours beforehand and I couldn't get him there today.

I'm going to try using one of my syringes tonight to flush with some warm water a little more.

The enzyme stuff is actually causing it to heal from the inside out from what I can currently see. The nice hole she made is staying open very well.

 

[jorats]

That's exactly what you want, heal inside out. That's why I so don't recommend any kind of neosporin or polysporin on abscesses, even cuts and such. Those ointments promote a fast healing but from the outside, trapping in the infection.

 

[mamarat2]

I flushed the hole this evening with warm water. I'm not sure if the enzyme stuff we are using will react badly with chlorohexiderm (blue solution for flushing) so I just stuck with the water. I did see a bit of strange tissue, but it could be the granulation tissue she is referring too, also I stuck my nose up to it.....no foul smell. Hopefully this is a good sign, we'll know wednesday evening.

 

[jorats]

Was there a foul smell before? I have noticed that not all abscesses are stinky.
For my Isabelle, it was a funny kind of abscess/cyst that when I kep flushing out some harder substance kept coming out too. It was weird, I had never seen anything like it.

 

[user 78]

You might want to try a saline solution. I just mix table salt with warm water, until it tastes fairly salty. Couldn't hurt, right?

 

[mamarat2]

Went to get it checked tonight, she said its looking great, yay!!

 

[Melissa]

That's so great, yay!

 

[Bronwyn]

Go Stanley! :cheer:

 

[jorats]

Excellent!

 

[mamarat]

Fantastic!!!