Injection site abscesses...?

I haven't had this happen to my goats, but I have had some nasty reactions on the barn cats. So far, we just let them alone as long as they act normally --- no fever or off feed--- they will resolve themselves in a few weeks. Whenever you push the needle through skin, it's not hard to "push" something into the site with the needle tip.

 

Just make sure your getting it under the skin and not between layers. This will cause one quicker then anything. I always just take a cotton ball soak it in alcohol; dob the injection site tent the skin up and push it in.

 

One of my does who is almost 8 still has an injection site abcess from when she was 8 weeks old when I bought her. I came to pick her up from the breeder and he insisted on giving her penecillin IM, "just in case". She still has the lump... staying just the same over all these years.

 

Oh, didn't know you had given IM. Has the bottle been contaminated some how?

 

I give my bo-se shots IM because of this also. I always clean the skin first, then give shots. My only abscess was from bo-se last year that I did not give IM. And I didn't find it until I shaved her for appraisal. Being white it's a ghastly scar now. You can hit shot sites that are lumping with DMSO and dissolve them before the rupture. Vicki

 

Ray, I think that I can get DMSO at my feed store now......at either my vet. or feed store, that is what I've always heard it called, and they know what you're talkin about.
Also think that I remember that you don't get this stuff on your skin or you will taste it in your mouth pretty quick......use rubber gloves, ect.
Geez, maybe I'm thinking about Ickthamol ....(Spelling ?)

Either way.....it comes in a little tub like cold cream, and is kinda jell like.....real sticky nasty looking stuff.

 

I saw it at Tractor Supply also back on the shelf where the horse hoof stuff was located.

 

it is eiter jell or liquid and yes you want to wear gloves. They also have better stuff at the Health Food store if you can't find it elsewhere.

 

Yep the DMSO sure will make you say Yeeeuck if you dont use gloves and make sure you dont get it on your sking either...Awful stuff but it sure works...

 

think you just rub it on clean the area first with alcohol because DMSO carries in dirt or anything else
won't swear to that tho

 

DMSO is NOT an injectable...it's a topical. DMSO is sometimes used injected, ONLY by a DVM in horses.....but there's no way I would even *think* of injecting it.
Kaye

 

Right Sondra.....It's a topical dressing....like bengay, soltice, ect.

 

It's super off label to even use it, considering it's sold as a cleaning solvent, but used on clean skin and rubbed in, it will get rid of anything under the skin quickly.

But know it is a carrier, and carries anything on your gloves or on the skin into the bloodstream, that's how clean you have to be to use this stuff. But it works really really well. My mom used it for her arthritis in her hands before she showed. I have used it before also. Vicki