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Dental Potential Dental Issue

anyar.dris said:
My past piggies had dissolvable stitches at the sides to keep it open. Have you asked Simon if he removed the whole pocket of abscess? What happened with my past piggies was he can't remove the whole pocket and they drained it when they opened it. So we have to flush it 2x a day to make sure the abscess isn't returning or the pocket isn't being filled up again. It'll be a different case if he managed to remove the whole pocket of abscess. @furryfriends (TEAS) would know the best way to do whether it still need to be flushed for cases like that. Yes the wound would close by itself in a couple of days.
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It was passed on to the receptionist by Simon that he was quite confident he’d removed all the puss from the pocket, which is why flushing isn’t necessary unless we want to. Thank you for telling me where it is. If it fills up again, will this be visible for me to see? As then we’d definitely be flushing it
 
If it fills up again, you would see the area getting bigger again. Also since it's open, the abscess would passed thru the wound and you would definitely notice it as it will stink. Open wound in guinea pigs closes so quickly. Usually after just 2 days it's completely closed.
 
anyar.dris said:
If it fills up again, you would see the area getting bigger again. Also since it's open, the abscess would passed thru the wound and you would definitely notice it as it will stink. Open wound in guinea pigs closes so quickly. Usually after just 2 days it's completely closed.
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It’s funny because the area didn’t even look big to start with, he would have daily chin rubs and we were none the wiser. I looked back on some old photos because I felt terrible that we’d missed it and couldn’t see it at all! He’s quite fuzzy though, so now that all that’s gone we should see it, i can imagine the smell to be vile. His precious abscess on his back had to have the puss squeezed out and it smelled eye-wateringly bad!
 
Little Ones said:
It’s funny because the area didn’t even look big to start with, he would have daily chin rubs and we were none the wiser. I looked back on some old photos because I felt terrible that we’d missed it and couldn’t see it at all! He’s quite fuzzy though, so now that all that’s gone we should see it, i can imagine the smell to be vile. His precious abscess on his back had to have the puss squeezed out and it smelled eye-wateringly bad!
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That was how it happened with my past piggies. Just appeared out of nowhere. It's like it appeared overnight, and just ballooned quickly. So made appointment with Simon and it was taken off the following day.
 
I’ve figured out where the wound is, it’s on the outside and it’s only rather small.
Little has really noisy, crackly breathing. This stops if I lift him from the cage as he then coughs but if I just leave him in there to eat his food, the noise doesn’t stop. Don’t know if I need to worry about this?
 
Well it’s all been a bit slow since yesterday evening. He’s not really been drinking much for himself, I watch him as he try to eat bits of food and is struggling and then I just know it’s because he needs a drink. So he’ll happily then come out and sit and have a good few syringes of water. I’m not sure if this is because he knows he’ll get syringes of water so doesn’t feel the need to go to his bottle, or if it’s because he doesn’t feel comfortable doing it. He’s eaten a few strands of hay but nothing compared to what he should be doing. They told us he should be back to normal today, but all I’ve seen him do since yesterday evening is sleep.
 
Little Ones said:
Well it’s all been a bit slow since yesterday evening. He’s not really been drinking much for himself, I watch him as he try to eat bits of food and is struggling and then I just know it’s because he needs a drink. So he’ll happily then come out and sit and have a good few syringes of water. I’m not sure if this is because he knows he’ll get syringes of water so doesn’t feel the need to go to his bottle, or if it’s because he doesn’t feel comfortable doing it. He’s eaten a few strands of hay but nothing compared to what he should be doing. They told us he should be back to normal today, but all I’ve seen him do since yesterday evening is sleep.
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I am rather confused about the flushing advice, although I am not entirely sure what was done. Were you given a large syringe, plus a needle as well as your meds? I am thinking that pus is building up. Can you get the scab off?
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
I am rather confused about the flushing advice, although I am not entirely sure what was done. Were you given a large syringe, plus a needle as well as your meds? I am thinking that pus is building up. Can you get the scab off?
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No, we weren’t given anything like that. We were just given Zithromax.
This is what the wound looks like right now.
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I think we will call Simon up later. Little isn’t really eating his hay at all now, he just sits and searches for extremely thin pieces to eat which are few and far between. He just rejects everything else :(
 
Little Ones said:
No, we weren’t given anything like that. We were just given Zithromax.
This is what the wound looks like right now.
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I think we will call Simon up later. Little isn’t really eating his hay at all now, he just sits and searches for extremely thin pieces to eat which are few and far between. He just rejects everything else :(
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Please ring Simon. Can you get it open? I think because it’s under the chin the thinking is it’ll drain but I’ve never found it does. I get the scab off, every time it forms, and flush twice a day.
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
Please ring Simon. Can you get it open? I think because it’s under the chin the thinking is it’ll drain but I’ve never found it does. I get the scab off, every time it forms, and flush twice a day.
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Okay, we’ll ring now. And then try and get it open after he’s finished eating a bit of grass.
He’s on 1ml metacam twice a day until tomorrow then he’ll be on 0.5 twice a day
 
Little Ones said:
Okay, we’ll ring now. And then try and get it open after he’s finished eating a bit of grass.
He’s on 1ml metacam twice a day until tomorrow then he’ll be on 0.5 twice a day
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Yes ring now, so they can get him to ring you once he’s free.
 
Little Ones said:
He’s calling us back. He has two operations to do and starts at 11:30 so will ring us once he’s free. Should I try and open the wound now or wait to see what Simon says?
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As he can ring soon, I’d wait for the call. Does Little react when you press down in the wound?
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
As he can ring soon, I’d wait for the call. Does Little react when you press down in the wound?
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No not at all, he lifts his head up a bit but that’s it
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
Do you have any flat cotton wool pads? I use those for cleaning abscesses. You can give it a really firm scrub (I know that sounds horrible) and it helps shift any pus that may be building up in there x
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Should we just use warm water for that? Thanks so much for your help
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
Warm water is fine x
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Okay we’ve done that, it does seem like it’s completely closed up. Also, I forgot to mention before but keeps shuddering too, kind of like tensing up and then releasing then having a few seconds before doing it again, if that makes sense?
 
Little Ones said:
Okay we’ve done that, it does seem like it’s completely closed up. Also, I forgot to mention before but keeps shuddering too, kind of like tensing up and then releasing then having a few seconds before doing it again, if that makes sense?
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Is there a scab you can pull off? The shuddering may be pain, but not sure. Are you syringe feeding?
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
Is there a scab you can pull off? The shuddering may be pain, but not sure. Are you syringe feeding?
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Just had another proper look, sorry it’s really been hard to see! The wound is still open, now we’ve cleaned it it’s a lot clearer. Looks like maybe there’s some puss?
 
Little Ones said:
Just had another proper look, sorry it’s really been hard to see! The wound is still open, now we’ve cleaned it it’s a lot clearer. Looks like maybe there’s some puss?
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Right, do you have a flat cotton wool pad or a baby wipe? Give it a really good scrub.
 
Yes think there definitely puss there! Now we’ve cleaned it think we’ve opened a scab. Since I posted the photo I’ve looked again and there’s even more at the surface. What should we do?
 
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