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Please do NOT flush puncture wounds with hydrogen peroxide! No no no no no no no. You're on the right track with Betadine or just the soap/water for cleaning the wounds. And yeah, you need a moist ointment on that leg-wound ASAP. Generic triple antibiotic ointment is dirt cheap, and you need...

Yes, Neosporin, if you're rifling through your "people" cabinet. Generic is just called "triple antibiotic ointment." It has bacitracin, neomycin, and polymixin-b. It's the one that comes in the yellow and green tube. It deals with both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, so is good underneath...

P.S. In that first shot of the leg wound, that looks like intact tendon-sheath to me. Anyone else? I can see how the second pic kinda looks like bone, but if it were, you should be seeing damaged tendon/muscle instead of just damaged skin. Right?

Quote: Are you dressing the leg wound at all, aside from just cleaning it with betadine? It really needs a good thick abx ointment on it, even if it's tribiotic (Neosporin or equivalent) pilfered from your own medicine cabinet, that would be fine. Really slather it on there. If you keep the...

As for the puncture wounds draining, I would encourage that--you WANT those suckers to drain. I'm not sure I'd even escalate to a systemic antibiotic at this point, but you've seen the wounds in person and I haven't. That leg wound is the one that would worry me. I would definitely keep it...