WhiteWyan
Songster
Hi everyone,
I wanted to share with you today about the bumble foot I just attempted to treat.
I don't have any pictures but it wouldn't be anything you haven't seen before on the forums about bumblefoot.
My 1.5 yr old silver laced wyandotte started showing signs of swelling in the webbing between 2 of her toes on her left foot a couple months ago. I didn't think it was much to worry about so I did nothing! Big mistake. I should have taken care of this earlier but I didn't know better. I waited.
I waited until today. It never seemed very red or inflamed. Just pink and... ever steadily growing larger. It got to the point that the bumble emerged out of the top of her webbing and was visible as a cream colored "scab".
I soaked her feet in the tub with warm Epsom water for 45 minutes. I cleansed the skin with iodine and tried to wrap her in a towel and put her on her side. That was a little tough but she eventually got in a good spot.
That bumble is HARD. I have some advice from my experience. Use an 18 g needle to excavate the bumble. Use a drilling motion because the pulling/chipping technique is never going to get you anywhere.
I would describe a bumble to be almost exactly like a dilated pore of winer. Have you seen these videos online of these dermatologists taking these out? They usually come clean out but they have anaesthetic and scalpels and sutures.
If I had the skill and materials I probably would have cut her skin in between the toes and got it all out like that. I would have had to stitch her and I couldn't do that without anaesthetic.
Overall I would say the soaking helped. The drilling helped. I got as much out as I could, she bled a little bit. I flushed the wound completely with nutritive wound spray (poultry wound spray with lanolin). Then I rubbed neosporin all up in there and on top of her foot. Wrapped in a strip of gauze and then vet wrap. Sealed the end of the vet wrap with a little narrow strip of duct tape up around the "ankle" of her foot.
She seems good so far. I am going to be checking the foot in a couple days to soak and excavate again. I will try to get pictures to show my progress!
Thanks for reading.
I wanted to share with you today about the bumble foot I just attempted to treat.
I don't have any pictures but it wouldn't be anything you haven't seen before on the forums about bumblefoot.
My 1.5 yr old silver laced wyandotte started showing signs of swelling in the webbing between 2 of her toes on her left foot a couple months ago. I didn't think it was much to worry about so I did nothing! Big mistake. I should have taken care of this earlier but I didn't know better. I waited.
I waited until today. It never seemed very red or inflamed. Just pink and... ever steadily growing larger. It got to the point that the bumble emerged out of the top of her webbing and was visible as a cream colored "scab".
I soaked her feet in the tub with warm Epsom water for 45 minutes. I cleansed the skin with iodine and tried to wrap her in a towel and put her on her side. That was a little tough but she eventually got in a good spot.
That bumble is HARD. I have some advice from my experience. Use an 18 g needle to excavate the bumble. Use a drilling motion because the pulling/chipping technique is never going to get you anywhere.
I would describe a bumble to be almost exactly like a dilated pore of winer. Have you seen these videos online of these dermatologists taking these out? They usually come clean out but they have anaesthetic and scalpels and sutures.
If I had the skill and materials I probably would have cut her skin in between the toes and got it all out like that. I would have had to stitch her and I couldn't do that without anaesthetic.
Overall I would say the soaking helped. The drilling helped. I got as much out as I could, she bled a little bit. I flushed the wound completely with nutritive wound spray (poultry wound spray with lanolin). Then I rubbed neosporin all up in there and on top of her foot. Wrapped in a strip of gauze and then vet wrap. Sealed the end of the vet wrap with a little narrow strip of duct tape up around the "ankle" of her foot.
She seems good so far. I am going to be checking the foot in a couple days to soak and excavate again. I will try to get pictures to show my progress!
Thanks for reading.
