Accidently snipped ear..help
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| You need to apply pressure for 5-7 minutes.... |
| try applying pressure and if you have any stypic powder...dab a little on..... |
Thanks! I will do that now.....I feel so bad, but I'm glad he is not in pain  |
it seems to have stopped. Now if I could just get him to lay down so it doesn't start again  .Thanks for your help!! |
phew  |
Poor Max  |
| Glad it stopped.... those few minutes in between can be scary though!
Sky and Panda were playing as usual, and I noticed Sky's tongue was bleeding like crazy. I thought I'd have to rush her in from the amount of blood so I ran into the house, got ready to go, and then went to look at her tongue again. She had drank water and I couldn't even find an injury let alone any blood.  |
| The ears are so tricky! Glad he stopped bleeding. When Chum broke a nail, the amount of blood was so scary.
Today there wa a little dustup in the car and Maggie ended up with a scraped up, bleeding nose. I am applying antibiotic ointment but I think it may be itchy. She keeps licking it and looking mournful. . . I am glad that Max is not phased by his injury. |
| I nicked one of Bosley's ears last year and he wimpered and it bled...a lot....and he still hasn't forgotten it.
But then, Bosley is a bit of a wimp...well, no, he is a BIG wimp...But I love the big goof  |
| It seems like ears and toes are the biggest bleeders, and
unfortunately the easiest to nick! Zeke's ears bled like mad after those dogs bit him last week. After you are sure it has stopped bleeding, put some neosporin or something on it. Ears can sometimes be a dirty place and can become infected easily, hanging in food and water or dragging on the ground during play. Don't feel bad, these things happen to everyone once in a while. Shellie |
| Okay everybody, write this down. Neosenepherine aka nasal spray. In an esceedingly low tech explanation, the 'nepherine' part makes the blood vessels contract and the bleeding slows or in the occassion of tiny cuts, stops altogether. That and direct pressure should stop any minor bleeding. It's also great for places that you can't put direct pressure on like, noses, tongues and mucous membranes.
So, directions to control bleeding (also the low tech explanation!): Step #1: Direct pressure. Cover the area with the cleanest piece of material you have readily available. Then, with the heel of your hand, apply direct pressure to the area. Do not press on any impaled objects or exposed brain matter and be careful of soft membrane areas. Also, for things like ear flaps, you need to support the area with a hand behind it. It's like making an ear sandwich. Legs and paws need to be supported also. Another thing, don't keep lifting up the cloth to check on it. The more you take the cloth off, the longer it's going to take because you are just ripping off the little blood cells that form together to make clots. You have to let them build up for the bleeding to stop. Step #2: If direct pressure isn't working, you can attempt to elevate the effected area to a level higher than the heart. It makes it harder for the blood to get to the cut. Better for appendages than for body injuries. Step #3: Apply pressure to the artery feeding the cut. Arteries are generally found running along bones and in joints. The little thump, thump you feel is an artery. Don't use the arteries in the neck to cut off blood flow to cuts on the head or face. You would also be cutting off blood flow to the brain! There are multiple resources on the net for finding pressure points, much easier to visualize them than to have them explained. Step #4: Tourniquets are only for extreme situations!!!!! If you are in the woods and HOURS from help and cannot get to civilization. As a generalization, tourniquets lead to amputation so only use them if you have no other option. |
I don't know if he will ever let me have sissors around his head again  |
| Very helpful info, Mandy - thanks! |
| So when I have a bloody nose and Joan suggests a tourniquet, I should ....? |
| You might want to start checking your food for arsenic with suggestions like that! |
| Joan says it means with a honker like mine a nosebleed could be fatal. She was merely suggesting that I'd look good with a nose like Karl Malden.
Oh you thought she meant around the neck. EMTs, you're all alike. |
| Our ER docs suggest Afrin nasal spray for a bloody nose. (not the tourniquet as suggested by your loving spouse ). Works great, by the way! |
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