Arrrrrrrgh!!!

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Nichola231 — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:03:30 GMT

We wouldn't normally sedate for BG. This patient is just particularly difficult to do anything with. I'm surprised the client is willing to treat as every time he comes in he has new bites and scratches from her.

Would be really handy to have an IV in place for patients like her but our vets are never keen on the idea. They prefer to wrestle and let the BG sky rocket so I often wonder what the point is.

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Leggy — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 20:07:07 GMT

I m based in Yorkshire

hope your kittens pull through after all your hard work.

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Sal the 1st — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:27:13 GMT

I used to work for a charity and we had a spell once where we we having 'parvo clinics' where animals were coming in and sitting with their owners whilst we ran in i/v fluids and then were back the next day to repeat if they survived. We could only take in the very worst cases and then only if a case died or was discharged down in isolation and vacated the kennels (we had 8 kennels + 2 large walk ins and I remember the walk ins having more than one dog in each sometimes if it was the same family).

we pushed the local newspaper and radio to get the warning out but the newspaper let us down big time by saying at the end of the article that this disease was preventable by vaccination (good) but that even if a dog caught parvo there was still a 90% chance that if it was caught in time and treated the dog could survive (BAD! because that made it ok for those that just couldnt be bothered to vaccinate because their dog could be treatedand would be ok, at the time we were offering vaccinations at a fiver a shot for qualifying clients and there were still people booking in and not showing because they couldnt be bothered.

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nursenat — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 10:35:05 GMT

Where are you based Leggy?

I ask as i foster for my local rescue in Hertfordshire and my current foster kittens tested positive for Parvo & Giardia...great combo

They were found on the side of a busy road with no mum...2 were emaciated (3-4 weeks old and weighing in at 195 grams!) of which one collapsed showing no other symptoms and had to be euthanised, so we decided to test as a precaution, and parvo it was :-(

I've just finished a week of intensive nursing, daily of fluids, lots & lots of scrubbing, antibiotics, panacur, syringe feeding and praying! and happy to report they're through the worst...but as you know it is so soul destroying and energy consuming.

An area in south wales has just recently had a mass outbreak of parvo too...so it seems it's doing the rounds? worrying!

The public do amaze me...if they could only understand and were to witness the devastating effects of Parvo and the heartbreak to owners and staff and especially the amount of intensive care that has to be given

Hoping you don't encounter anymore cases and we can only keep doing the best we can xx

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Nick Shackleton — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:12:21 GMT

You could always place a cannula and use an obturator.

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Teh Fluffeh — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:01:06 GMT

Would you usually give a sedation for a BG check? I've always used EMLA cream and a towel if necessary.

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Nichola231 — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:33:43 GMT

Ugh that drives me crazy. I hope things start to get better soon. Nothing worse than watching the wee one get worse and know there's very little you can do.

If it makes you feel any better, a client mouthed off at one of our vets recently. His psycho (in every sense of the word,) diabetic cat was boarding with us for a week. He had asked for her to receive daily (!!!) blood glucose checks without sedation (!!!) and a dental. Her teeth are perfect. I seen them numerous times throughout the day.