Wendy-Jane
Alpha Buck
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As some of you know, Chutney has had a chronic tear duct infection for over two years - nothing fixes it completely, though it comes and goes in severity, sometimes ALMOST going completely. This turned into an abscess suddenly, last weekend, and surgery was performed on Monday. She came home last night, so this morning was the first time I've had to flush it.
Well the difficulty is, I'm not sure how much of a success the abscess flushing was. I bathed the opening, and the end of the syringe definitely went into the hole, as did the saline, but because the abscess was in the tear duct I had expected fluid, or gunk, or something, to come out of her nose (or eye), like when she's had her ducts flushed, which it didn't. The fluid just seemed to swell up the site where the abscess was. I massaged it a little bit, and a bit of fluid came out of the hole, but it's difficult to know how hard to press. When she ran away afterwards a bit of white gunk appeared on her eyelid, which I wiped off, so maybe that's what is supposed to happen.
Can anybody offer thoughts or advice on this please? I used about 20mL of fluid - maybe this is insufficient for it to come out of the nose? Maybe it went down into her mouth instead (then she swallowed it?). Or maybe it's normal to just sit in the space where the abscess was? Are you supposed to massage it or what?
Thanks in advance for any help - I'm feeling a bit hopeless here, and I know some of you have extensive experience with abscesses.
Wendy
PS She's having penicillin, metacam and Bio-lapis, and we go back to my (imo superb) vet on Friday
PPS Sorry this is so long :lol:
As some of you know, Chutney has had a chronic tear duct infection for over two years - nothing fixes it completely, though it comes and goes in severity, sometimes ALMOST going completely. This turned into an abscess suddenly, last weekend, and surgery was performed on Monday. She came home last night, so this morning was the first time I've had to flush it.
Well the difficulty is, I'm not sure how much of a success the abscess flushing was. I bathed the opening, and the end of the syringe definitely went into the hole, as did the saline, but because the abscess was in the tear duct I had expected fluid, or gunk, or something, to come out of her nose (or eye), like when she's had her ducts flushed, which it didn't. The fluid just seemed to swell up the site where the abscess was. I massaged it a little bit, and a bit of fluid came out of the hole, but it's difficult to know how hard to press. When she ran away afterwards a bit of white gunk appeared on her eyelid, which I wiped off, so maybe that's what is supposed to happen.
Can anybody offer thoughts or advice on this please? I used about 20mL of fluid - maybe this is insufficient for it to come out of the nose? Maybe it went down into her mouth instead (then she swallowed it?). Or maybe it's normal to just sit in the space where the abscess was? Are you supposed to massage it or what?
Thanks in advance for any help - I'm feeling a bit hopeless here, and I know some of you have extensive experience with abscesses.
Wendy
PS She's having penicillin, metacam and Bio-lapis, and we go back to my (imo superb) vet on Friday
PPS Sorry this is so long :lol: