Let's talk about the essential things in our first aid kit.
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Sometimes unforeseen problems arise or accidents that imply rapid action.
Whenever our animal has a health problem we have to go quickly to the vet.
But on certain occasions we should travel with a small first-aid kit
so we can help our animal in these first moments when our animal's health is at risk.
Marc came here with his first aid kit and we are going to analyze a little what does is contains.
First we have gloves.
It's always good to use them when we're going to touch anything on the animal,
like cleaning the poop or touch fluids from mouth or blood.
It's important to wear gloves and not have contact with it.
Gloves are fundamental in our first aid kit.
Perfect. Let's see what else do you have.
Gauzes and hydrogen peroxide.
Ok, let's talk about the wounds.
Paw cutted with glass or dog fights with another animal that suddenly bites it or quite very frequent, torn claw.
Sometimes dog's paw gets trapped, dog will try to move it and suddenly a claw is torn.
Well, hydrogen peroxide is one of the disinfectants that best cuts the bleeding in an animal or even in a person.
Therefore gauze with hydrogen peroxide and pressure in the place where the cut was made
will help us to control bleeding.
I also see that you have a bandage.
Did you ever use it or do you have it simply out of good habit?
Yes, once he fought with the cat that scratched him here and cut to the blood.
And the first thing we did was to use gauze with hydrogen peroxide
and then we put a bandage so this cut couldn't get infected or dirty.
It was very good first aid. Especially use of hydrogen peroxide when blood apperaed.
We also have another disinfectant that is very good
so that there are no infections in the future which is chlorhexidine.
It's similar to Cristalmina for people, it's the same active substance.
Cristalmina also is a very strong disinfectant substance.
It's a good idea to have these products in our first aid kit to do that primary care.
The bandage is very handy on more serious problems: when dog falling from height
or for example when we suspect a broken bone.
Using a bandage prevents the puppy from moving its leg and keeps it aligned.
It's very important that all medication should always be prescribed by a veterinarian.
Everyday we have patients with health problems
derived from having given anti-inflammatories or human medication to a dog.
Therefore never engage with human medication or even any type of medication
that has not been prescribed or supervised by a veterinarian.
It can be really toxic or even fatal for a dog,
especially for small size dog where it's obviously dependent form weight.
But also there are some anti-inflammatory human products that we use very commonly
when administered to dogs can have very serious consequences for their health.
We'll use hydrogen peroxide mainly for bleeding wounds to stop the bleeding in efficient and rapid way.
We'll use chlorhexidine as general antiseptic to prevent these wounds from infection.
We should wear gloves for dressing wounds and handling dog's fluids or secretions.
We always should handle it with gloves that protect us from direct contact.
The bandages in the event when our dog has or may have broken leg, fracture
or to put a compression bandage to stop the bleeding.
And very important: clean gauze either wet in chlorhexidine, hydrogen peroxide or any disinfectant
to clean wounds or to clean any excretion, blood that the animal may have.
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