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Need Advice on Injured Paw/Missing Claw
2 weeks ago my 2 year old indoor-only Manx "Gray" managed to rip out his
front right index claw. After 2-3 days it started to smell terrible so off to the vet we went. The vet said it may or may not grow back, and prescribed Amoxi drops to fight off infection. Gray has a big problem taking any kind of pill or liquid. It traumatizes him every time and he ends up foaming and running around with pink/white slime coming out of his mouth. After 9.5 days on the Amoxi drops he developed diahrea, intense foaming and began vomiting pink foam. The vet indicated to take him off the meds and see what happens. Now, the terrible stench is back coming from the claw area. It is only slightly swollen, and has a little pink nub which seems to always be wet. I'm not sure if this is the claw growing back or an infection? It doesn't seem to bother him at all - he lets me touch it etc. and I never see him licking at it or limping. My question is... if I call the vet again she's just going to prescribe another antibiotic and we're going to go through another 10 days of trauma/foam. Does the smell from the claw indicate a definite recurrence of the infection? Will it heal itself? I hate to subject Gray to MORE antibiotics, but obviously want him to heal correctly. Thanks, Meghan |
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Meghan wrote: Gray has a big problem taking any kind of pill or liquid. It traumatizes him every time and he ends up foaming and running around with pink/white slime coming out of his mouth. After 9.5 days on the Amoxi drops he developed diahrea, intense foaming and began vomiting pink foam. The vet indicated to take him off the meds and see what happens. Has the vet indicated any other options for this problem? With liquid, I have put it into wet food. Or I have sprinkled antibiotic in the capsule form over canned food which was harder to detect in this way. Is the amount too much for your particular cat? The stuff does get cats naueous. |
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wrote in message oups.com... Meghan wrote: Gray has a big problem taking any kind of pill or liquid. It traumatizes him every time and he ends up foaming and running around with pink/white slime coming out of his mouth. After 9.5 days on the Amoxi drops he developed diahrea, intense foaming and began vomiting pink foam. The vet indicated to take him off the meds and see what happens. Has the vet indicated any other options for this problem? With liquid, I have put it into wet food. Or I have sprinkled antibiotic in the capsule form over canned food which was harder to detect in this way. Is the amount too much for your particular cat? The stuff does get cats naueous. Can the cat get an antibiotic shot? |
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"Meghan" wrote in message
... 2 weeks ago my 2 year old indoor-only Manx "Gray" managed to rip out his front right index claw. After 2-3 days it started to smell terrible so off to the vet we went. The vet said it may or may not grow back, and prescribed Amoxi drops to fight off infection. Gray has a big problem taking any kind of pill or liquid. It traumatizes him every time and he ends up foaming and running around with pink/white slime coming out of his mouth. After 9.5 days on the Amoxi drops he developed diahrea, intense foaming and began vomiting pink foam. The vet indicated to take him off the meds and see what happens. Now, the terrible stench is back coming from the claw area. It is only slightly swollen, and has a little pink nub which seems to always be wet. I'm not sure if this is the claw growing back or an infection? It doesn't seem to bother him at all - he lets me touch it etc. and I never see him licking at it or limping. My question is... if I call the vet again she's just going to prescribe another antibiotic and we're going to go through another 10 days of trauma/foam. Does the smell from the claw indicate a definite recurrence of the infection? Will it heal itself? I hate to subject Gray to MORE antibiotics, but obviously want him to heal correctly. Thanks, Meghan my red one recently suffered a claw injury he got climbing up a tree when he got scared (normally indoor cat, on a leash at summer place when scared by dogs) the claw wasn't gone, but the "claw capsule" (don't know the English but you get what I mean?) was fractured, one week passed before we realised he was really hurt, started smelling a bit from infection - he was moving about and using his paw just fine, no limping and no picking at it. Vet took one look at it and said it had to be cleaned and rinsed, so he had an op within the hour. Did your vet do any cleaning at all, i.e. getting rid of all the possibly remaining hurt part and rinsing away bacteria/infection? As I understand this *needs* to be done. The smell would most certainly suggest the infection is not gone. The red one went back for check-up last Friday and the vet looked at his paw and then proceeded to sniff it to make sure - looks kind of funny when the human does the sniffing ... Anyway all was good and the antibiotics was stopped, he took them for a week, he also had some other pills the first few days against swelling and pain to the bone. I would definitely bring the cat back - maybe to another vet? The antibiotics we got was pills that could be mixed with the food - "liver flavour" it said on the pack. Good luck! -- lewe lewemi at yahoo dot se | cats' pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi |
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"lewe" wrote in message ... "Meghan" wrote in message ... 2 weeks ago my 2 year old indoor-only Manx "Gray" managed to rip out his front right index claw. After 2-3 days it started to smell terrible so off to the vet we went. The vet said it may or may not grow back, and prescribed Amoxi drops to fight off infection. Gray has a big problem taking any kind of pill or liquid. It traumatizes him every time and he ends up foaming and running around with pink/white slime coming out of his mouth. After 9.5 days on the Amoxi drops he developed diahrea, intense foaming and began vomiting pink foam. The vet indicated to take him off the meds and see what happens. Now, the terrible stench is back coming from the claw area. It is only slightly swollen, and has a little pink nub which seems to always be wet. I'm not sure if this is the claw growing back or an infection? It doesn't seem to bother him at all - he lets me touch it etc. and I never see him licking at it or limping. My question is... if I call the vet again she's just going to prescribe another antibiotic and we're going to go through another 10 days of trauma/foam. Does the smell from the claw indicate a definite recurrence of the infection? Will it heal itself? I hate to subject Gray to MORE antibiotics, but obviously want him to heal correctly. Thanks, Meghan my red one recently suffered a claw injury he got climbing up a tree when he got scared (normally indoor cat, on a leash at summer place when scared by dogs) the claw wasn't gone, but the "claw capsule" (don't know the English but you get what I mean?) was fractured, one week passed before we realised he was really hurt, started smelling a bit from infection - he was moving about and using his paw just fine, no limping and no picking at it. Vet took one look at it and said it had to be cleaned and rinsed, so he had an op within the hour. Did your vet do any cleaning at all, i.e. getting rid of all the possibly remaining hurt part and rinsing away bacteria/infection? As I understand this *needs* to be done. The smell would most certainly suggest the infection is not gone. The red one went back for check-up last Friday and the vet looked at his paw and then proceeded to sniff it to make sure - looks kind of funny when the human does the sniffing ... Anyway all was good and the antibiotics was stopped, he took them for a week, he also had some other pills the first few days against swelling and pain to the bone. I would definitely bring the cat back - maybe to another vet? The antibiotics we got was pills that could be mixed with the food - "liver flavour" it said on the pack. Good luck! -- lewe lewemi at yahoo dot se | cats' pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi Lewe, I was afraid of this. We live in a VERY rural area and I don't have much faith in the vet. The only vet I really trust is 3 hours away. I was hoping to avoid the trauma of having to force a 6 hour car ride on him. There was no washing out done - none of that. The problem with the antibiotics is that Gray is small (8 pounds) and doesn't really care much for food. He was on antibiotics twice before, for respiratory problems, and I couldn't hide the pill/powder/liquid in ANYTHING. He normally does like canned food and tuna, but if there's anything in or on it, he knows and won't go near it. Meghan |
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After 9.5 days on the Amoxi drops he
developed diahrea, This is common when cats (or humans) take antibiotics. Get some acidolpholus capsules at a health food store. Make sure that they are capsules and are kept refrigerated. Open a capsule and mix the powder with canned food (it has NO taste). This would stop the diarrhea within 24 hours. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44=B0 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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"Meghan" wrote in message ... 2 weeks ago my 2 year old indoor-only Manx "Gray" managed to rip out his front right index claw. After 2-3 days it started to smell terrible so off to the vet we went. The vet said it may or may not grow back, and prescribed Amoxi drops to fight off infection. Gray has a big problem taking any kind of pill or liquid. It traumatizes him every time and he ends up foaming and running around with pink/white slime coming out of his mouth. After 9.5 days on the Amoxi drops he developed diahrea, intense foaming and began vomiting pink foam. The vet indicated to take him off the meds and see what happens. Now, the terrible stench is back coming from the claw area. It is only slightly swollen, and has a little pink nub which seems to always be wet. I'm not sure if this is the claw growing back or an infection? It doesn't seem to bother him at all - he lets me touch it etc. and I never see him licking at it or limping. My question is... if I call the vet again she's just going to prescribe another antibiotic and we're going to go through another 10 days of trauma/foam. Does the smell from the claw indicate a definite recurrence of the infection? Will it heal itself? I hate to subject Gray to MORE antibiotics, but obviously want him to heal correctly. Thanks, Meghan Healing correctly is not the immediate concern- preventing bacteremia and sepsis is the first priority. He's foaming from the mouth from the liquid medication- ask your vet to prescribe pills. You can make pilling much less stressful for him (and you) by using a Pill Popper: http://www.maxshouse.com/instruments...pillpopper.jpg Just make sure to pop the pill into the laryngopharynx so it doesn't dissolve in his mouth and he can't smell or taste it. He's a diagram of how to easily and quickly pill a cat with minimal stress: http://www.maxshouse.com/Medicating_Your_Cat.htm You can use a pill popper instead of your fingers to get the pill as far back as possible. Don't chase or call him to pill- let him come to you or pick him up when he's sleeping- cats are more cooperative when the just wake up and still a little groggy. Pet his head gently for a minute or two while holding the pill popper in your other hand. In one, swift continuous motion, open his mouth by gently by squeezing the joint between his upper and lower jaw with your thumb and middle finger, slide the pill popper into the back of his mouth and press the plunger to pop the pill. Have an oral syringe with water ready to make sure the pill clears his esophagus. Insert the syringe between the teeth and the buccal wall through the little gap just behind his canine teeth (diastema). Administer the water slowly so he doesn't choke. http://www.maxshouse.com/anatomy/man...edial_view.jpg You might also want to try giving him a little water in this way after the liquid amoxi to see it helps him tolerate the liquid med a little better before opting for the pills. If all else fails, ask your vet to show you how to administer the amoxi injectable subcutaneously. This is probably the easiest route of all for both of you. SC injections are easy and painless because the meds are injected just under the skin and not into the muscle. Unfortunately, diarrhea is fairly common side affect of the penicillin class of drugs because it alters gut flora (antibiotic-associated diarrhea). If it doesn't subside in a few days, ask your vet if he can prescribe a different class of antibiotic. Best of luck, Phil. |
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Meghan wrote: 2 weeks ago my 2 year old indoor-only Manx "Gray" managed to rip out his front right index claw. After 2-3 days it started to smell terrible so off to the vet we went. The vet said it may or may not grow back, and prescribed Amoxi drops to fight off infection. snip The avulsed claw probably needs to be surgically removed, the wound cleaned and stitched. I wouldn't mess around with it any more - it's infected - get him into the vet and get it taken care of. If he can't tolerate liquid antibiotics, ask for pills. There are options other than amoxicillin for him. Good luck, -L. |
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"-L." wrote in message ups.com... Meghan wrote: 2 weeks ago my 2 year old indoor-only Manx "Gray" managed to rip out his front right index claw. After 2-3 days it started to smell terrible so off to the vet we went. The vet said it may or may not grow back, and prescribed Amoxi drops to fight off infection. snip The avulsed claw probably needs to be surgically removed, the wound cleaned and stitched. I wouldn't mess around with it any more - it's infected - get him into the vet and get it taken care of. You know something? You're right. Onychectomy of the single claw is probably the best route to take. Phil |
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Meghan wrote: 2 weeks ago my 2 year old indoor-only Manx "Gray" managed to rip out his front right index claw. Great! While you're on a roll, you might as well get the other 19 removed as well. Something you should have done a long time ago. Grey is an indoor cat by your own admission. He doesn't need his claws anymore. They offer him no other benefits, and they spell nothing but 'destruction' for your home. Why do you allow him to keep them? IBen |
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