Runestonez
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Hey!
I wanted to pick someone's brain regarding bicillin.
We have a 5 year old , 5 pound mini lop with a whomping great dental abscess.
He had his first surgery on it on November 2nd this year.
It involved his jawbone (changes to the cortex of the bone itself)and his two back lower molars on the right side.
The pus was even thicker then regular rabbit abscesses...even the vet was shocked. It was a very aggressive abscess...the vet was surprised Daphne pulled through.
It didn't present as a typical abscess and was invisible on digital x-rays of the jaw.
We did a culture and sensitivity...it came back as Psuedomonas aeruginosa (moderate growth) and e.coli (heavy growth).
The e.coli was no shocker...he had the two rear molars removed through the bottom of his jaw bone leaving an open fissure in his mouth that had to granulate back in.
We were flushing with saline and packing with Baytril soaked gauze...then added oral doses of Chloro Palm to the mix...he seemed to react well to the combo.
However...as the abscess slowly healed (at its worst it could hold nearly 5cc of fluid)...Daphne pulled the gauze out that we were packing it with and it closed up about a week ago.
We had already had quite a bit of the walls slough off...so we continued the Chloro Palm...I checked the sensitivity test and saw that the e.coli was sensitive to Choro and Baytril...but the psuedomonas was resisitant to Chloro and only intermediately affected by Baytril.
So I monitored him for a week and there was no change...in size etc...so we are seeing the vet to have it opened again this week so we can continue treating it...
I am wondering about the bicillin protocol...I think the vet can excise the one lobe of the abscess...but the third lobe looks too close to the musculature of the jaw and will have to be left open for treatment...but I was wondering about using bicillin as a packing agent rather than a SQ injection...
thoughts?
Our appointment is this Tuesday...December 18th!
Thanks
Danielle
I wanted to pick someone's brain regarding bicillin.
We have a 5 year old , 5 pound mini lop with a whomping great dental abscess.
He had his first surgery on it on November 2nd this year.
It involved his jawbone (changes to the cortex of the bone itself)and his two back lower molars on the right side.
The pus was even thicker then regular rabbit abscesses...even the vet was shocked. It was a very aggressive abscess...the vet was surprised Daphne pulled through.
It didn't present as a typical abscess and was invisible on digital x-rays of the jaw.
We did a culture and sensitivity...it came back as Psuedomonas aeruginosa (moderate growth) and e.coli (heavy growth).
The e.coli was no shocker...he had the two rear molars removed through the bottom of his jaw bone leaving an open fissure in his mouth that had to granulate back in.
We were flushing with saline and packing with Baytril soaked gauze...then added oral doses of Chloro Palm to the mix...he seemed to react well to the combo.
However...as the abscess slowly healed (at its worst it could hold nearly 5cc of fluid)...Daphne pulled the gauze out that we were packing it with and it closed up about a week ago.
We had already had quite a bit of the walls slough off...so we continued the Chloro Palm...I checked the sensitivity test and saw that the e.coli was sensitive to Choro and Baytril...but the psuedomonas was resisitant to Chloro and only intermediately affected by Baytril.
So I monitored him for a week and there was no change...in size etc...so we are seeing the vet to have it opened again this week so we can continue treating it...
I am wondering about the bicillin protocol...I think the vet can excise the one lobe of the abscess...but the third lobe looks too close to the musculature of the jaw and will have to be left open for treatment...but I was wondering about using bicillin as a packing agent rather than a SQ injection...
thoughts?
Our appointment is this Tuesday...December 18th!
Thanks
Danielle