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Cyst on foot?

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One of the boys that came in today has got a weird foot - looks like a cyst, about the size of a pea, but what I thought was pooh stuck to his foot underneath seems quite attached... will give it a good bathe to soften it tomorrow - meanwhile, better to squeeze the pea-sized bit or leave it be?

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Bad claws too but I can sort those

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Clean the foot thoroughly. Trim the nails. Lance the abscess (not cyst). Watch and wait, no need at this stage for antibiotics or cream/ointment. It looks like a nail bed infection, fairly common in pigs, he probably caught the nail and bent it, slight possibility he may lose the nail.
 
The "dirt" on the foot can sometimes be so encrusted that it almost needs to be "cracked" to remove it.
If he is a (neglected) rescue pig it may be infection has got into the nail bed from the dirt around the toes.
 
Daphne had a foot just like this when she came to me. I soaked it in warm salt water for ages to soften all the muck stuck underneath, cleaned it all off and lanced the lump as near to the bottom as I could so that it naturally drained downwards. Think what looked like poo on Daphnes' foot was a combination of just that and also the pus that had been slowly leaking from the lump and it had all got glued under her foot.

I did give it a squeeze for a few days and kept soaking it in the salt water - within around a week it was fine and it's not been a problem since.

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