[nagdu] DIY hot spot treatment

Tracy Carcione carcione at access.net
Thu Mar 31 14:36:18 UTC 2011


So you have lots of experience.  Do you do anything differently than I
did?  It's been ages since I've had to treat a hot spot.
Tracy

> Hey whatever works. I hate hot spots. Bailey is prone to them.
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> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:27 AM
> Subject: [nagdu] DIY hot spot treatment
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>>I recently had to treat a hot spot on Echo, and it seems to have worked,
>> so I thought I'd share.  I remember people asking about it before.
>> I discovered a sore on Echo's face a few days ago.  Usually, I'd take a
>> dog to the vet for treatment, but the old gal gets totally stressed
>> getting into a car, and even worse at the vet, so I decided to try
>> treating it myself first.  First, I cut the fur away from the sore as
>> best
>> I could.  I only have scissors, so this was the hardest part.  I put
>> Echo
>> on tie-down, so she wouldn't wander off.  Then I had to be careful with
>> my
>> scissors, so as not to poke her eye, ear, or the sore.  It wasn't
>> anywhere
>> near as neat as the vet's shaving, but it was good enough to get the fur
>> out of the way. Then I cleaned the sore with some peroxide on a bit of
>> paper towel, and put on a dab of Neosporin, same as I would if I had a
>> cut.  I repeated the cleaning and antibiotic morning and evening for a
>> couple days, until the sore felt like it was well-scabbed over and was
>> healing up.
>> When I had a dog with flea allergies, I always had a tube of Panalog on
>> hand, but not anymore.  But the Neosporin seemed to work OK.
>> Of course, if the sore hadn't healed up, I'd have taken the old lady to
>> the vet. Wish I had some doggie valium or something. But happily my home
>> nursing did the trick.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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