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Bloody Nail!

thomasmuffinsRgood

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I was cutting macks nail when he moved! I cut the quick and it bled alot. The photo attached is 1/6th of a tissue of blood. should i be worried? is this too much? i dipped his nail into flour to stop the bleeding which has worked so far but I'm worried thats too much blood?!?
 

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Hi this happens to one of my guinea pigs as well if you have some corn starch you can put on the end of the nail stop the bleeding but if not the bleeding will stop soon his nail will be fine though just might be abit sore xx
 
Sophie @2003 said:
Hi this happens to one of my guinea pigs as well if you have some corn starch you can put on the end of the nail stop the bleeding but if not the bleeding will stop soon his nail will be fine though just might be abit sore xx
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yes but is it too much blood? the bleeding stopped with flour but I'm really paranoid
 
thomasmuffinsRgood said:
I was cutting macks nail when he moved! I cut the quick and it bled alot. The photo attached is 1/6th of a tissue of blood. should i be worried? is this too much? i dipped his nail into flour to stop the bleeding which has worked so far but I'm worried thats too much blood?!?
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Hi

If the bleeding has stopped, then your piggy is OK.

Wipe the toe gently with some saline solution (you can make it at home by stirring 1 teaspoon of salt into 250 ml/ 1/2 of boiled, cooled water to disinfect it after the bleeding has stopped.

When catching the quick fully, then there is a lot of blood but it only gets dangerous if the bleeding doesn't stop within 10-15 minutes and or if there is a continuous trickle of fresh blood.

I've had a couple of bad cuts like that but in both cases the piggy was perfectly OK; even Hyfryd, who we had to rush to the out-of-hours vets this summer because she continued to bleed for longer than normal and lost even more blood than yours - I ended with about half a dozen tissues looking like yours in her case. The bleeding stopped as soon as we pulled into the clinic's car park... ;)

I hope that this helps to reassure you? Please take a deep breath but this what you expect to see with a full-on cut into the quick but no more than that. Your piggy will bounce back from that very quickly. ;)
 
Wiebke said:
Hi

If the bleeding has stopped, then your piggy is OK.

Wipe the toe gently with some saline solution (you can make it at home by stirring 1 teaspoon of salt into 250 ml/ 1/2 of boiled, cooled water to disinfect it after the bleeding has stopped.

When catching the quick fully, then there is a lot of blood but it only gets dangerous if the bleeding doesn't stop within 10-15 minutes and or if there is a continuous trickle of fresh blood.

I've had a couple of bad cuts like that but in both cases the piggy was perfectly OK; even Hyfryd, who we had to rush to the out-of-hours vets this summer because she continued to bleed for longer than normal and lost even more blood than yours - I ended with about half a dozen tissues looking like yours in her case. The bleeding stopped as soon as we pulled into the clinic's car park... ;)

I hope that this helps to reassure you?
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yes that is very reassuring. nail trimming is so stressful!
 
thomasmuffinsRgood said:
yes but is it too much blood? the bleeding stopped with flour but I'm really paranoid
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Yea it will bleed really bad cause there is a vein going threw the nail and you have cut threw it if bleeding has stoped all should be well I am was paranoid when I got my first two piggies ten year ago xx
 
It looks like a lot of blood but it is pretty standard for a too-short nail cut! Your piggie will be okay... one of mine managed to rip a nail off going up a ramp and it was a shocking amount of blood!
 
Yes looks a similar amount of blood to when Clover half-tore off her nail, very alarming but if the bleeding stops its ok. I keep a supply of styptic pads just in case, on the vets advice- after rushing Clover to the emergency vets in a panic not knowing what was bleeding and... it was just a toenail, and a very expensive toenail it turned out to be too lol- but flour or cornflour works well too in most cases. No harm done but this might cost a lot of treat veg bribes to get piggy to forgive you!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Yes looks a similar amount of blood to when Clover half-tore off her nail, very alarming but if the bleeding stops its ok. I keep a supply of styptic pads just in case, on the vets advice- after rushing Clover to the emergency vets in a panic not knowing what was bleeding and... it was just a toenail, and a very expensive toenail it turned out to be too lol- but flour or cornflour works well too in most cases. No harm done but this might cost a lot of treat veg bribes to get piggy to forgive you!
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mack is the nicest thing! he never was even mad :D:D:D
 
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