Elizabethan collar

This is our version of the famous collar. Its supposed to be a cone to prevent the cat or dog from scratching their wound. The plastic is flexible enough so that the cat can bend his head but stiff enough to stand up to aggressive scratching.

This was the wound after a few days with the collar (7 Jun 2012). We washed with dettol initially but it can be quite painful if too concentrated. Later we used Yellow Solution (acriflavin) which is also an antiseptic for a couple days. After that we just let the wound heal for a few days. It took about one week. It's now completely healed with hardly any scar.

Now here's the gory picture (courtesy of my wife's blackberry), turn away if you can't stomach it.

It looks really scary with all the red blood smeared over the hair just one or two days after I was scratching his neck (his favourite) and felt something unusual (picture taken 2 June 2012). Vivian (the soon-to-be Vet) told us to cut the hair. If you see this, don't panic and run straight to the Vet. You just need to clean it, and watch it for a few days to see it drying up and forming a scap. Nature will do all the healing. If it doesn't dry up and looks like its not improving, then only should you press the panic button.

Have noticed that people jump up and run to the doctor at the slightest fever, especially with your bundle of joy? We are losing our resilience.

 As good as new, 14 June 2012, collar removed about a week ago, followed by a good bath, which he protested.


Here's the monitoring :

 4th Jun, already drying up after 2 days.

 8th Jun, one week later, almost healed.

Thanks to Vivian for the tele-medicine consultation.