[Dailydrool] Keeping Maggie's sore open

[Val Brewer]

I am not a vet, nurse, physician, or any kind of medically trained personnel, but I found myself wondering whether Maggie's sore could be packed.  This is what I had to do for an open, post-surgical sore in the leg of  my mentally disabled sister-in-law a few years back.  Her wound also had to be kept open to heal from the inside out.  I was the designated family member to care for it.   I was instructed to flush out the sore with saline water twice a day, and then gently lay in sterile surgical gauze pads, wrapping the entire leg with light gauze to keep the packing in when I had filled up the wound.  Because of the packing, the wound didn't scab over, and in fact did heal from the inside out--Each week less packing was needed unitl finally the wound was healed level with the outside skin.,  I wonder wether this technique would work for Maggie's sore.  Picking off scabs and testing the depth of the wound with a Q-tip sounds so "ouchy" to me.  I can't imagine my
 sister-in-law having tolerated that...  Might be worth asking your vet if packing the wound with sterile dressings that you change daily would work ian Maggie's situation.  Val

       
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.dailydrool.org/pipermail/dailydrool-dailydrool.org/attachments/20080610/7156ffbd/attachment-0002.htm>