[nagdu] DIY hot spot treatment

[Sherri]

I use this stuff the vet gives me call Neopred or something like that. It is 
a powder. They told me Neosporin may help, but what you really need to do is 
dry it out and the Neopred seems to do that. You just shake it on the spot 
and after a few days, the thing scabs over and goes away.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] DIY hot spot treatment


> 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.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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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