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Hello Everyone,
From a previous post about her not eating, losing weight, etc. It has all be resolved and been doing well since early January.
Now a new minor issue came up in which she seemed to have developed this cyst like abscess on right side of rib cage? Came about weeks ago..as a small like dark dot I noticed...thought maybe she got scratched by our other cat indoors or she over bit herself or something. Then as time went on, it slowly increased in size a bit to like an M&M and was white pus filled. She might have licked/bit it but in next day or so it drained I guess and it was smaller again. Then it grew just slight with pus again so we took her to Vet.
He drained it, and just prescribed this Entederm cream to put on twice a day since last Saturday, and do so for a week. ANd since she had to be with the cone which I HATE she looks soo depressed at times but somewhat got used to it. Just gets me so sad seeing her like that but at least she still asks for food, walks around awkardly, and uses litter ok and drinks water.
So my question to you all is, is Entederm solely the right away to approach it? Vet said theres also clavamox or amoxcillin..but since it didnt look so serious, he rather treat it topically first rather to risk any side effects from medicine, especially since shes now 16 going 17 yrs old. The other thing was that we decided after vet visit, as we put the cream on that it was probably useless at first since she had like this dry blood scab around it. So how would the cream work?? We decided to gently clean her, remove the scab, more pus came out actually afterwards, drained it and then saw like a crater in middle? THEN we put the cream and since then seems to be slightly improving. Now each day we are cleaning it up, even draining it more because it seems like there still some pus in there. So we drain it very carefully then apply cream and clean area. Im attaching pictures, each labeled with date on to see progress since feb 17th.
If anyone could let me know if this cream is correct or should she be on medication? I would greatly appreciate it.
From a previous post about her not eating, losing weight, etc. It has all be resolved and been doing well since early January.
Now a new minor issue came up in which she seemed to have developed this cyst like abscess on right side of rib cage? Came about weeks ago..as a small like dark dot I noticed...thought maybe she got scratched by our other cat indoors or she over bit herself or something. Then as time went on, it slowly increased in size a bit to like an M&M and was white pus filled. She might have licked/bit it but in next day or so it drained I guess and it was smaller again. Then it grew just slight with pus again so we took her to Vet.
He drained it, and just prescribed this Entederm cream to put on twice a day since last Saturday, and do so for a week. ANd since she had to be with the cone which I HATE she looks soo depressed at times but somewhat got used to it. Just gets me so sad seeing her like that but at least she still asks for food, walks around awkardly, and uses litter ok and drinks water.
So my question to you all is, is Entederm solely the right away to approach it? Vet said theres also clavamox or amoxcillin..but since it didnt look so serious, he rather treat it topically first rather to risk any side effects from medicine, especially since shes now 16 going 17 yrs old. The other thing was that we decided after vet visit, as we put the cream on that it was probably useless at first since she had like this dry blood scab around it. So how would the cream work?? We decided to gently clean her, remove the scab, more pus came out actually afterwards, drained it and then saw like a crater in middle? THEN we put the cream and since then seems to be slightly improving. Now each day we are cleaning it up, even draining it more because it seems like there still some pus in there. So we drain it very carefully then apply cream and clean area. Im attaching pictures, each labeled with date on to see progress since feb 17th.
If anyone could let me know if this cream is correct or should she be on medication? I would greatly appreciate it.
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