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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Quick update – unfortunately we've made very little progress with treating Alice's bumblefoot over the last month... There's no black scab on the bottom or top of her foot, but there remains a very large firm lump between her toes. I've gone in with the biopsy punch a few times now, pulling out...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Quick update... I was Googling around yesterday evening after realising my girl's condition wasn't improving and I found this really interesting video: There's also a great blog post about the procedure here...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Out of interest did your bird have a similar swelling to mine? And did you not need to extract anything – just kept putting sugardine in their daily and it eventually cleared up on its own? How do I know I'm making progress – should I expect to see the swelling subside? Thank you ❤️
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    I decided to go in again... I went in a little deeper this time and picked/squeezed more out gunk out. I packed in as much sugardine in as I could then wrapped her foot. My plan right now is just to keep digging into it every 4-5 days and putting as much sugardine in there as I can. I don't...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Hi guys. I'm back and looking for some advice for what to do next... I've attached two photos. The first is the bottom of her foot. Where my tweezers are is a cut and what feels like a hard lump underneath. The cut has been there for a couple of weeks now and does not seem to be healing...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Thanks. I don't mind it taking a long time, I just don't like that I feel so unclear on what I should be doing and feel like I'm just inflicting pain on her for no reason. :( My main concern is that there's a kernel in there that needs to come out and I can't get it out. After I cut into her...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    I tried again but failed to remove anything significant, and put her in a lot of pain and discomfort. I feel exhausted, physically sick and extremely disappointed in myself for once again letting her down. I've attached a photo of her foot after trying again remove whatever is inside. It's hard...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    That's so weird! I literally just ordered curette from Amazon after writing my last post! I was watching this video on bumblefoot and thought I'd give a curette a try next time since it seemed to work quite well at digging out some of the infection that's deeper in the tissue, When going in...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Would you guys recommend bathing in epsom salts daily or is that unnecessary? Is it enough to just spray with Vetericyn, apply neosporin/ichthammol and bandage? Beyond cleaning up the foot, I'm wondering if the daily baths are really helping that much. Alice's foot looks a little more swollen...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Thanks for that. Looking at that diagram and looking online I'd be quite confident saying that what I saw was a cecal worm. I believe Flubendazole is basically the only thing we can get for poultry in the UK. Fenbendazole is available here but for other animals like dogs and cats (although...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Thanks! I have povidone-iodine so I'll give sugardine a go if I have to cut into it again. It does seem like it's slightly more effective than the neosporin. I'm really hoping I get lucky and both heal up quite soon because it's such a pain having to check their bandages constantly and soak...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Attaching some photos of her foot 24 hours after the incision... Keep to get any thoughts. As you can see it's scabbed up and is quite red (I assume from all the squeezing yesterday). I think it seems a bit smaller if you compare to yesterday. Her pad is looking quite good too. It's probably a...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    That was one of the worst things I've done in my life... I made a small incision and pushed a bunch of soft black gunk out. I was struggling to get it all out so made a second incision in the shape of a + to try to get under the skin better and squeeze out the rest. I didn't get out anything...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    Thanks. This is really good to know. I think the problem I would have with cutting into her foot right now is that it's not clear if there's anything in there and if there is, where it is. It would be one thing if knew where to make an incision, but aside from assuming there might be something...
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    Bumblefoot – is this a good treatment plan?

    So we've been bathing her for the last few days, but unfortunately there's not been any progress. She has quite a large swelling between her toes, which I'm fairly sure I'm going to have to cut into to remove the infected core... My concern however is more with the pad of her foot which...
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