Thanks everyone: Vets bills currently at £205 after today's visit for the girls to get their third injections.
Beanie is now making good progress. After the "bloodbath setback" on 14th, we have been changing her dressing every 2 days instead of daily to reduce her stress. On the advice of the vet, we have boiled up some nice porrige oats gloop, sieved it and saved the emulsion to treat her skin. Every dressing change, we dilute some "stock gloop" in warm boiled water and her skin is gently bathed with cotton wool eyepads (no free lint) and allowed to dry. We then "dunk her" in warm 1/500 F10SC (anti-bacterial and anti-fungal) to wash it off and allow her to dry again in a very soft fluffy towel. We then treat any open wounds with Flamazine cream..(antibacterial silver salts) .and then re-dress and put on the jacket.
As of today - Beanie's hair is starting to grow back! Yay!
And her skin on her rump is pale pink/silky smooth! She is also far calmer about irritation and not wheeking or self-mutilating so much! She will however have her jacket on (with or without dressings) for the next 4 weeks minimum.In terms of the scabs/wounds -
We have managed to rectify the damage from our previous oversight....and are now back to where we were at the last vets visit.
Now Dotty is not progressing as well as hoped. She still has big open wounds on her skin in the same places as when she arrived here....and is continuing to self-mutilate and make more wounds. She's a stubborn madam and doesn't take kindly to syringe feeding her meds or extra food, She is, nevertheless, still going in the right direction.
One point to mention for info: - vet said today it is really important that these girls get the painkiller buprecare prescribed at "bang-on" regular intervals because, given what it does, a delay to regular treatment could exacerbate their itchiness.
I will post updated photos at the weekend
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