Please help! I accidentally put neosporin w/ pain reliever!...

[chifleandpito]

I washed it off within five minutes. I used dawn soap and then coated with mineral oil. What should I do? She is constantly chirping!

 

[fried green eggs]

Hi &

Whats wrong with your chick? Neosporin and some generics of it use a pain reliever that does not end in "caine" so, it is safe for chickens. Here is info from www.PoultryPodiatry.com
Give Painkiller

• CAUTION: Do NOT give Ibuprofin (Advil, etc.) or Acetaminophen (Tylenol, etc.) to birds! Those are harmful to them.
• Buffered aspirin (such as Bayer, etc.) can be used for a chicken to help reduce:
  • Stress, listlessness, discomfort, pain
  • Fever
  • Swelling / inflammation.
    Caution:
    Aspirin thins blood and keeps it from clotting as quickly as normal.
    • You should wait until internal and external injuries have begun to heal before using aspirin.
    • Birds bruise more easily when on aspirin.
  • Note: A standard baby Aspirin is 80 mg, and a standard adult Aspirin pill is 325 mg.
  • Dose for chickens: Approx. 25 mg per pound of chicken's body weight each day.
    • Examples: For a 6-lb. Large Fowl Leghorn rooster, 2 times per day give 1/2 of a regular aspirin ( = ~300 mg total per day).
      For a Bantam 1.6-lb. Bantam Leghorn rooster, 2 times per day give 1/2 of a baby aspirin (= ~75 mg total per day).
  • To administer:
    • To give immediately or in individual administrations: Crush up and split dose up into 2 or 3 administrations per day. Sprinkle the powder on a small tasty treat such as fruit or yogurt and give to the chicken.
    • To have the chicken self-administer throughout the day: Crush up the total daily dose and dissolve in the approximate amount of water that the chicken drinks each day. Pour into chicken's drinking container.
• Never give a chicken any kind of painkiller with 'caine' in the name. These are EXTREMELY toxic to chickens.
  • Do NOT use a Triple Antibiotic Ointment with Painkiller because almost all include '-caine' ingredients.
    • Exception: Neosporin with Painkiller products usually only use Pramoxine HCl as the painkiller ingredient, and that is alright for chickens.

 

[Jessielynn21]

Thanks for that info! I treated my first case of bumblefoot this morning. I read a ton of stuff, felt confident, but apparently missed the info about antibiotic ointment with painkillers. I saw this about 10 minutes after I finished wrapping her feet and put her outside. Luckily, my stuff has the pramoxine hci, or I would have been chasing my chicken down to scrub her poor feet down.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That's good to know!

 

[Eggcessive]

Actually pramoxine is also a Caine—it is pramacaine. But I usually recommend using a plain ointment without pain relief, but using it once or twice is not serious. It is like a lot of things, too much over time can be toxic. Vets use lidocaine and others in small amounts in surgery and care, but it should be carefully monitored.

 

[Jessielynn21]

Thanks. I just put a little on the spot where her sores were. I will changes her bandages this evening and find something else to use.