Wound care powder?

Re: Wound care powder?

Uns — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:19:40 GMT

We stock the Multiderm range in our practice, I find the ointment is excellent and promotes wound healing and granulation tissue. The powder is ok but tend not to use it for big bleeding wnds..wud be keen to use kalostat dressings

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Vicky RVN — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:31:54 GMT

We always use it to get blood from our drapes, works a treat! Love watching it foam!

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Sal the 1st — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:43:52 GMT

yes you can use hydrogen peroxide on bloody fur - and it works very well, but I reserved its useage for taxidermy specimens or animals where the owner wanted to view if they had 'died on the table' (esp if they are white) - it makes a really neat job and at least leaves the animal looking presentable to the owner. Will agree it is also good for removing blood stains from fabric prior to washing

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Saskia Quinn — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:36:46 GMT

I also use water and cotton wool, but I worked with a nurse once who used hydrogen peroxide, I am pretty sure thats what it was!

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dinkyd — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:35:20 GMT

Ummm I just use water - always works for me lol!

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Saskia Quinn — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:29:20 GMT

correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure hydrogen peroxide dilute with water can be used to clean blood of animals hair after surgery, especially white animals

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Mac Feather — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:37:04 GMT

Talking of hydrogen peroxide, I recall someone taking punch biopsies and instead of going into formal saline they went into hydrogen peroxide! And no, thankfully I was not involved in any part of this process!!!!!!!!

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Deemus — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:19:15 GMT

My boss still likes to use a dash of peroxide for cleaning teeth after dental. Makes me wince each time he does it. Fair enough it's diluted but still.....

I must confess tho, I use it (diluted) after those nightmare blood samples where the patient will bleed anywhere apart from into the syringe!

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Saskia Quinn — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:09:02 GMT

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I thought wound powder went out with the Herriot vets and large animal only brigade...but then when i started in practice they still liked a dash of hydrogen peroxide (the senior vets that is!)

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My greyhound, Saskia has persistent lameness, meloxicam wasnt doing much for her so she is now on carprofen bid.

3 years ago, the lameness started, my vet at the time thought it may be a small foreign body in the paw as it seemed an acute lameness - so poor Saskia had to be sedated and have the good old hydrogen peroxide to hope 'bubble' out anything foreign. It didnt work

I have accepted the fact that it is arthritis probably due to an old racing injury as she was a racer in her time.

Carprofen seems to be doing the trick so far, fingers crossed

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Laura Ringsell — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:21:15 GMT

I thought wound powder went out with the Herriot vets and large animal only brigade...but then when i started in practice they still liked a dash of hydrogen peroxide (the senior vets that is!)

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Mac Feather — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:03:36 GMT

I remember back in them thar olden days using 'battles wound powder', then used negasunt and an animalcare powder.

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Amy J — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:05:42 GMT

We use Emovet powder from NVS!!

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Vicky RVN — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:06:09 GMT

We have the veterinary wound powder in the blue and white bottle from Centaur...never seen it used other than on wild birds with small wounds!

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:46:23 GMT

nope I meant the ordinary wound powder

disregard the supplier but this is the product I meant - well one of them. You can get this one through NVS but Millpledge do their own version

http://www.nutrecare.co.uk/best_detail.asp?prod_id=1602

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Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:31:29 GMT

Aha, Sal posting re: Millpledge made me realise you're probably after the haemostatic Traumastem P Powder - that's normally available through NVS and would suit a bleeding mass very well indeed! It's fairly pricey from what I remember though....x

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A Little TLC — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:30:37 GMT

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I remember this stuff it used to be in a green and white bottle with a little nozzle on it.

It was brilliant for small furries and wildlife which had the odd minor scrape on it.

As I recall we used to get it from Centaur

looks proper old school doesnt it? in a tin and everything. like somethin g outta james herriot

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Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:26:10 GMT

If you mean the stuff in the blue and white bottles, that's only 2% chloramine powder - it's a GSL product sold for horses and is less effective than Hibiscrub as an antiseptic. Johnson's and Bob Martin's, purveyors of the 'fantastic' flea products also make a 'wound powder' along these lines and sell it in Pets At Home - need I say more?? It's not really suitable for use in modern small animal practice, there are so many better products available....

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:24:58 GMT

also available from Millpledge

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Deemus — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:21:18 GMT

Hello,

We use wound powder at our place. It is available through NVS. I'm pretty sure it's under veterinary wound powder on their order system.

Hope it's the one you're after.

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Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:21:55 GMT

Is the area unsuitable for haemostatic alginate dressings like Kaltostat? Negasunt has been discontinued, mainly because it posed such an inhalation risk when using - it was full of harmful organophospates and pesticides (was great for maggoty bunnies tho!). I'm not entirely sure that topical application of ABs such as aureomycin has been proven to have any benefit over systemic ABs - surely you'd be better cleaning and dressing the wound alongside systemic AB cover than messing around with powders? Powders tend to be designed for the large animal market where it's harder to access the animal regularly - bit old-fashioned to use them in dogs/cats really.... x

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Cat Woman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:14:00 GMT

No, you can't get Negasunt powder anymore. There was something actually called wound powder - again, not sure if its still available. Maybe something like aureomycin powder would help?

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Kay Eminson — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:06:19 GMT

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we used to use negasunt (?sp) for stuff like that if I recall

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We use that but Im not 100% sure you can get it any more?

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Steph Worsley — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:24:20 GMT

we used to use negasunt (?sp) for stuff like that if I recall

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Royalsuper_fairy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:31:24 GMT

Has any body used Multiderm powder for dogs?

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Kerry Spain — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:57:52 GMT

I remember this stuff it used to be in a green and white bottle with a little nozzle on it.

It was brilliant for small furries and wildlife which had the odd minor scrape on it.

As I recall we used to get it from Centaur