posted on August 12, 2000 11:51:45 AM
Sunshine appreciates the scratches.
The vet didn't say how deep the abscess was (or if he did my husband didn't relate that information to me), but he did say it was pretty badly infected.
She was given an antibiotic there, and she was also sent home with a bottle full of pink stuff which looks like Pepto Bismol. It's amoxicillin, and hubby has been giving it to her with an eyedropper. I think there's only one dose left, thank goodness. It's a real struggle to get it down her.
There's a powdered medicine we're mixing in with her food, too. It's labeled acidophilus -- isn't that the stuff in milk? Or yogurt?
posted on August 12, 2000 12:15:47 PM
Acidophilus is the stuff in yogurt. Oral antibiotics kill off the normal gut flora, and acidophilus can replace some of the beneficial bacteria.
