Hypodermic pricks - one of types of therapy which owners of dogs should face at a disease of the pets. The optimal variant is when all injections are done by the veterinarian, but in cases when you live far from clinic, and pricks are necessary several times a day, it is necessary to learn to do it independently.
It is required to you
- - disposable syringe;
- - medicine;
- - spirit solution;
- - delicacy for encouragement.
Instruction
1. Strictly follow instructions of the veterinarian, carefully check cultivation and a dosage of medicine. Remember that all drugs which you are going to enter to an animal have to be sterile and also have not expired expiration date. Consider that many medicines need to be stored only in the fridge, otherwise they lose the medicinal properties.
2. In advance prepare the sterile syringe, medicine and alcohol (instead of it it is possible to take any spirit solution, for example, of a calendula). Carefully wash up hands with soap then wipe hands and an ampoule with medicine alcohol. Open an ampoule. If medicine is in a bottle, then it is necessary to remove by means of a knife an aluminum circle from above and to wipe an elastic band with alcohol. Open sterile packing of the syringe, accurately attach a needle (at the same time it needs to be held for a plastic tip, and the syringe for the basis).
3. Gather medicine in the syringe. If it is in a bottle, then accurately puncture a rubber stopper, gain necessary quantity then accurately take the syringe, holding it for the piston (it is necessary that medicine under the influence of a vacuum in a bubble did not pour out back). After you gathered liquid, it is necessary to close a needle a plastic tip. Before an injection make sure that in the syringe there is no excess air. If you see bubbles, then they can be moved away by means of easy pressing the piston.
4. Ask the family or friends to help you. Subcutaneous injections are put to dogs in withers (a skin fold between shovels). Let the second person hold a dog, and you delay withers so that the fold was formed then enter into it a needle. Be careful not to pierce a skin fold through. Slowly enter medicine then take out a needle and accurately massage skin in the place of an injection for the best distribution of medicinal substance.
5. Violently praise the dog and give her deserved delicacy!