wound management

Re: wound management

Louise B — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:16:25 GMT

Hi,

Its £138 to join not £38.

Still looks like a good deal though.

Re: wound management

mlv — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:45:04 GMT

another great thing about manuka honey is that if you have gastric issues, particularly gastric ulcers, eating a tablespoon of honey a day will cure it! I promise!

wonderfull stuff

Re: wound management

Caro Laithwaite VN — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:10:58 GMT

After several months of muttering honey dressings at my dads ulcer clinic and getting my mum to say it. She said she did once but did not want to upset the nurses, the following human nurse excuses are/were:

Never heard of it
It doesn't work on ulcers
It hurts when used
It isn't the right time
I have heard good things we will start next time (said several months ago and nurse never seen since)

Finally a nurse decided 2 weeks ago to shut me up and use it, l think the idea was to prove it would fail. So manuka honey dressings, same ones (company etc) as we use for the animals, and my mum having freaked out at every step from being told until the firat dressing had been on for 3 days.....(it will hurt, it will fail, it is for animals, it will drip everywhere etc.

Guess what ulcer is already measuring smaller than anytime in the past 6 months... really l could have told you bloody human nurses that months ago.

MANUKA HONEY

Re: wound management

Siobhan Steven — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:00:11 GMT

Just tried it, copy and paste into the address bar and it works... hey I'm amazed! :)

Re: wound management

Siobhan Steven — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:58:12 GMT

I can vouch for Manuka Honey 1st hand, having grown up in New Zealand we were familiar with it as a matter of course. I introduced my current forward thinking vet to it when we had a burns victim and we just did a maggot infested gangrenous wound amoungst others. There is an Emergency Centre in Brisbane that pretty much exclusivley uses Manuka,it has to be the medical grade which is'nt cheap, don't make the mistake of using the wrong one. We just slather it on to swabs with a tongue depressor and apply, initially dressing should be changed daily, which may be necessary under GA/sedation. When vitilised tissue is evident debriding and redressing is combined and when possible a skin flap can be done. Of course this is wound/case dependant so can't comment on your case. I have a great case study of a dog who was dragged 3kms behind a car and had Manuka dressings for weeks, I'll see if I can attach it. Any questions feel free to ask.

www.vss.net.au/PDF%20files/Christmas%202005.pub%20(Read-Only).pdf

I hope the link works! I'm usless at tech stuff so you may have to fully copy it but its worth it! And its only 1/2 the story...

Re: wound management

Maisy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:20:06 GMT

Intrasite conformable is fine sheets of dressing impregnated with gel so you can cut them up as needed or fold up and place over the wound. Have seen Manuka honey used in bunnies and works well for things like open dental abscesses and such like.

https://shop.jakmarketing.co.uk/product_detail.php?prod_id=523&catid=13 <- link to JAK and the pet shirt! There does need to be some customising, especially for cats, as their back end is covered over which makes going to the litter tray difficult! However the shirts stay on well and are easy to place as opposed to some where you use countless velcro sheets etc.

Re: wound management

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:15:40 GMT

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]

Did wonder if you had lost your marbels with all that tomes of stuff l posted

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nope just a ming mong

Re: wound management

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:37:34 GMT

Did wonder if you had lost your marbels with all that tomes of stuff l posted

Re: wound management

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:36:22 GMT

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]

This is the example case study on the non members page

http://www.vetwoundlibrary.com/smartweb/sample-case-study

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lol great minds! I had left the window open for this thread and not refreshed it!!

Re: wound management

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:35:44 GMT

have you joined here? http://www.vetwoundlibrary.com/smartweb/case-reports

Re: wound management

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:11:14 GMT

This is the example case study on the non members page

http://www.vetwoundlibrary.com/smartweb/sample-case-study

Re: wound management

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:08:59 GMT

Off the front page l have put the url there for you:

Membership is £38 per year and includes:

Access to trial dressings for use in practice
A growing database of case reports of small, large and exotic animals generated from dressing trials
Access to the clinical advisory panel for help with specific problem cases
Dedicated dressing selection tool to help with dressing choice

Membership of the library is valuable for clinicians who treat wounds and wish to develop or try modern products or techniques with a bit of extra support.

By using the products within the library a report is generated that enables sharing of the outcome of treatment with other members. There is no charge for dressings as long as a basic case report is submitted with supporting photograph. This is simply done through the reporting software within the site.

Telephone and e-mail support is available to all library members and includes advice on dressing selection, clinical management, and case reporting for those with technology phobias.

A clinical advisory panel will also be introduced in March 2009 to support members with specific clinical challenges including surgical proceedure. The panel includes specialists in small, large and exotic species.

Re: wound management

dinkyd — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:06:56 GMT

Hi we had great success with a rottie that had a wound on one of its carpus - we used honey impregnated dressings and the result was really good!I def think it sped up the healing process as it had to heal by granulation with where the wound was.Would def give it a go - only thing was when we had to redress the wound it was quite messy taking the dressing off but once cleaned up it looked good.

Re: wound management

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:05:31 GMT

Join the following it is £38/year they send you out all their dressings for free first class post and they have a librtary of wound cases for you to study. All they ask in return is that you send in photos and write ups to help other -people which is not a bad swop.

Manuka is brilliant you can get the squeezy tubes or imprgnated dressings the dressings are better but all are covered under the £38/year.

http://www.vetwoundlibrary.com/

Re: wound management

Mac Feather — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:22:47 GMT

[quote user="Maisy"]

Intrasite conformable? Or even just use the gel before dressing over the wound, but the sheets I've found tend to work that bit better. As for keeping the dressings on, JAK do a pet shirt (looks like a little swimming costume) which should work well for the pelvic bandage, though the tail will still need something extra on there.

Hope the little cat is okay, was it an RTA?

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Didnt know such a thing existed as a pet shirt.

Re: wound management

wilkoannie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:47:02 GMT

yes it was an rta , ive been flushing the wound, putting intrasite gel and allevyn on at the moment, though i heard mahuka honey is good for healing to, just want to try everythingi can, vets have left it to the nurses to do and id just like to do everything by the book.

what is intrasite conformable, do you get them from the wholesalers, would a baby grow or something do the same job as the jak pet shirt, or how can i get one of these t shirts, is it on line. xx

Re: wound management

Maisy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:10:38 GMT

Hope the little cat is okay, was it an RTA?