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Smudgies abcess is back

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Yes its back again just 2 weeks after being discharged from the vets.....hopefully we've caught it early & he's back on baytrill.I just hope he doesn't have to go through another operation.
He's eating & popcorning as usual he seems to bounce back each time he's been ill. He really is a tough little guy.
 
Where is the abscess? Recurrence would suggest the cause is still there. Of course, antibiotics do not remove the cause.
 
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Its at his neutering site.. (neutered Aug 2008).He had a huge abcess that required an op around a month ago.He had 5 stitches with a gap in the middle so we could carry on squeezing the gunk out...This we did for about a week untill no more came out & his scar healed over, he was on baytill all this time & for a week after that...He's only been off it for about 2 wks.
 
Either an infection was picked up during the op. or it could be a suture abscess. Were the sutures resorbable ones or did they have to be removed? A piece of suture left in place can be a focal point for infection.
When the testes are removed there is a pad of fat associated with each one. Some vets. remove the fat, other vets. put the fat back in. The latter can be associated with infection.
Whatever the cause, the skin can heal over with infection still in place beneath the site of the op.
 
Do you know if the abscess was removed as an entire capsule? I believe it's important that it is removed whole, to contain the infection and cause.
 
the vet didn't say how it was removed.When I took him with it originally they saidt hey wouldn't know what it was untill they opened him up as an abcess was one of a few things the lump could have been, they wern't prepared to just stick a needle in to see what it was. When he was originally neutered he didn't need to have the stitches taken out. When he had the abcess removed a few weeks ago smudgie pulled his own stitches out after about 5 days...I dont know where they went though cos I never found them
 
his lump has definately got bigger...he's back at the vets on Monday.Looks like it will be surgery again.If I hadn't seen the lump I wouldn't know that he was ill as he's eating & popcorning as normal He climbs up the bars of the cage as soon as he sees me comming towards him with a tub of grass.I'll be keeping a very close eye on him over the weekend..my OH is looking after him today cos I'm in work till 7pm.
 
Oh i just read all this about Smudgie so sorry to hear 8...
Rotten abscesses they can rear their ugly heads a few times, so hard to get rid of mallethead
Sending healing wheeeeeeeks and loves to the little guy xx>>>xx>>>xx>>>xx>>>
 
Hope smudgie is dong ok I had this problem with a reoccuring abcess and eventually it transpired the intestine was herniating through the hole where the testicle drops through they discovered this on his second op.

Guinea pigs can sometimes have a reaction to chromic suture which causes ongoing abcessing, as can the replacement of fat pads which alcesterpigs has already mentioned.

Hopefully this time the vet has got to the cause of the abscess and has removed the entire capsule.

Healing wheeks to Smudge x
 
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