GrunBunMum
Warren Scout
We've been in battle with an abscess with Elsie for over a month now
She was only Sulfatrim at first whilst in boarding to try keep it at bay until we returned from holiday. During this time it burst open twice and healed again. Prior to our holiday we had her in for X Rays which showed badly infected tooth roots and jaw
2 Weeks ago we had her in for GA and for them to try pull the teeth (back 2 molars) and clean out the abscess. They failed to get the teeth out saying it was too risky on the jaw. They cleaned as much of the abscess out as possible and left open for us to flush and pack with honey and moved onto batryril along with metacam
2 weeks on and it is no better, its still open and pus is just building up seeping out each time we come to flush it. More puss is forming each time. Our vet is a exotic specialist but is newly trained
Current situation is, she is packing it with antibiotic dressing and putting it in right to the bone to kit the infection direct then stitching it in. She did have a depocillin injection Friday but today when we removed the dressing it was worse than ever before (possibly cause its been in there since Friday) No other meds apart from metacam is being given
Our vet is now saying its far to advanced for any drugs to do anything. I really want to trust our vet but I'm not convinced we are hitting it with the best treatment. She is booked in for another clean out Thursday but she is basically saying there is nothing
She was only Sulfatrim at first whilst in boarding to try keep it at bay until we returned from holiday. During this time it burst open twice and healed again. Prior to our holiday we had her in for X Rays which showed badly infected tooth roots and jaw
2 Weeks ago we had her in for GA and for them to try pull the teeth (back 2 molars) and clean out the abscess. They failed to get the teeth out saying it was too risky on the jaw. They cleaned as much of the abscess out as possible and left open for us to flush and pack with honey and moved onto batryril along with metacam
2 weeks on and it is no better, its still open and pus is just building up seeping out each time we come to flush it. More puss is forming each time. Our vet is a exotic specialist but is newly trained
Current situation is, she is packing it with antibiotic dressing and putting it in right to the bone to kit the infection direct then stitching it in. She did have a depocillin injection Friday but today when we removed the dressing it was worse than ever before (possibly cause its been in there since Friday) No other meds apart from metacam is being given
Our vet is now saying its far to advanced for any drugs to do anything. I really want to trust our vet but I'm not convinced we are hitting it with the best treatment. She is booked in for another clean out Thursday but she is basically saying there is nothing