Wound Treatment - Lacerations

Wound Treatment​

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If you decide that these dogs are going to be your life, and your involved with this breed for any length of time you will undoubtedly experience the occasional yard accident. With this in mind it will be necessary to treat minor and severe wounds. ​

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The cost of staying uniformed as to the correct manor in which to treat these wounds can be very expensive in terms of vet bills and the worst case scenario, loss of your dog's life. One thing I have personally noticed in recent times is that many people are getting away from the basic treatments and they are using odd ball ideas with no legitimate reason behind these ideas; therefore, this article will deal with getting back to the basic treatments and the time proven techniques that work.​

There are two very basic wounds that will need to be dealt with sometime in your career, LACERATIONS and PUNCTURE type wounds. I will begin with lacerations, these are the wounds that deal with torn skin, they can vary in length, depth, and width, regardless as to the severity, the actions you will need to take will be very similar in nature. ​

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The first thing you will need to do is clean the wound with Hydrogen Peroxide, wait a few minutes after applying the Hydrogen Peroxide then flush the wound with warm water. NOTE: only use the Hydrogen Peroxide ONCE and every time there after that you flush the wound you will use a strong Batedine solution. You will want to flush this wound 3 times per/day and in between these flushings you will want to pack the wound with Nitrofurizone dressing.

Depending upon the severity of the wound, depth, etc, etc you will need to decide if you want to close the wound after it has been cleaned by either using sutures or staples. (Note: never use blood stop in laceration or puncture type wound. Actually you would be better off to through your blood stop powder away, I have seen a vast amount of complications concerning the use of this product, your better off without it)​

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This decision must be made immediately because you CAN NOT close an old wound, if you do decide to close this wound by either sutures or staples always start closing this wound in the middle of the wound, never start closing at either ends of the wound. ​

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Put one stitch in the middle and work your way outward toward the ends, example, one stitch in the middle, then one to the right of that first stitch, then one to the left of the first stitch, working back and forth, right, left, right, left. Once you get close to the end of the wound leave a small portion open for the wound to drain, also you will be able to use this opening to flush the wound, DO NOT CLOSE THE WOUND COMPLETELY.

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i agree with most of the article....however you can over-doctor a wound.....flushing it 3 times a day might be a bit much