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His feet/legs are a lot worse than I thought. I honestly feel terrible because I feel like I should have noticed something this bad sooner. I guess it just goes to show how well chins can hide their injuries/pain. Like I had said in my previous thread, the first thing I noticed a week ago was just a tiny cut with dried blood on one foot that didn't even seem to bother him, so I treated it and didn't think much of it. Then, two days ago, he started limping. Yesterday I noticed oozing and swelling. Today at the vet, they cleaned up the crusty stuff, shaved his leg and got the rest of the fur off that was matted from the oozing by washing with warm water..this is what we found:
This is the right leg, which wasn't seeming to bother him all that much and wasn't even the leg that was swollen. Vet says she thinks the infection must have started in the pads, and travelled up the leg to that point. The raw skin was caused by the oozing and the fur getting matted to the leg from the oozing.
As far as treatment, we are doing:
Pain medication: Buprenorphine .1cc 2x daily for one week
Oral Antibiotic: Sulfatrim .3cc 2x daily for two weeks
Wound management: Chlorhexidine wash 2x daily for two weeks
Kept on soft bedding until wounds are healed, change out daily with clean bedding (I'm using a layer of fleece over two towels)
For those of you who have dealt with bumblefoot, do you think I should be applying blu-kote in addition to the chlorhexidine wash?
His feet/legs are a lot worse than I thought. I honestly feel terrible because I feel like I should have noticed something this bad sooner. I guess it just goes to show how well chins can hide their injuries/pain. Like I had said in my previous thread, the first thing I noticed a week ago was just a tiny cut with dried blood on one foot that didn't even seem to bother him, so I treated it and didn't think much of it. Then, two days ago, he started limping. Yesterday I noticed oozing and swelling. Today at the vet, they cleaned up the crusty stuff, shaved his leg and got the rest of the fur off that was matted from the oozing by washing with warm water..this is what we found:
This is the right leg, which wasn't seeming to bother him all that much and wasn't even the leg that was swollen. Vet says she thinks the infection must have started in the pads, and travelled up the leg to that point. The raw skin was caused by the oozing and the fur getting matted to the leg from the oozing.
As far as treatment, we are doing:
Pain medication: Buprenorphine .1cc 2x daily for one week
Oral Antibiotic: Sulfatrim .3cc 2x daily for two weeks
Wound management: Chlorhexidine wash 2x daily for two weeks
Kept on soft bedding until wounds are healed, change out daily with clean bedding (I'm using a layer of fleece over two towels)
For those of you who have dealt with bumblefoot, do you think I should be applying blu-kote in addition to the chlorhexidine wash?
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