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Sore hocks question

helgalush

Wise Old Thumper
A few weeks ago I posted about Muesli having what looked like bright red blood on one of his puppy pads. There has been no more for a while but tonight there was more. The first time it happened I was worried it was related to his kidney problems, but on inspection tonight it looks like he has a very sore hock.

I know that the best thing with sore hocks is prevention by providing soft flooring - but its not possible with Muesli as they are on lino in the spare bedroom and have puppy pads everywhere because he wees excessively all over the room. :oops:

What can I do to help his hock heal? I have sudocrem but think that can thin the skin even more. Can I bandage it? Any other ideas?
 
Poor Bun :cry:

I am not sure that bandaging would be a good idea as the dressing would constantly get soaked in wee and consequently the risk of the hocks becoming infected would be significant.

Is he actually incontinent ?

It may be that you will need to give ongoing cleaning and drying care of both him and his environment several times a day. A barrier cream may be beneficial to try to protect the skin from further damage from urine. I have used Metanium or Bepanthen

http://www.metanium.co.uk/

http://www.bepanthen.co.uk/

Is Muesli on abx at the moment ?
 
Thank you Jane. Oh yes I see your point about the bandaging, I didnt think of that.

Yes he is incontinent - he has got significiant kidney damage (I dont know if this is the same as chronic renal failure?) but anyway we are waiting for a specialist referral with Bristol clinic for him. So he isnt actually on any treatment for that at all. Just a low calcium diet and managing (or trying to) his environment.

We actually managed to get on top of his urine scald using cornflour, as this dried everything up nicely and his fur has started to regrow nicely. I just wondered whether using cornflour on his hock might work as well? Or whether that could also risk infection.

Would sudocrem work as well as bepanthen and metanium, as we have sudocrem in? If not we will go out and buy some. Thank you Jane. :)
 
My Winston is too old to jump into a litter tray, so I line his room with vet bed with towels underneath. His room is only about 6ft square, so is quite easily covered with lengths of vet bed about 4ft long. They fold up and go in the washing machine quite easily one at a time.
 
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