Dogs, as well as people, periodically are ill. And if common food poisoning can be facilitated by means of tablets and a special diet, more serious diseases demand introduction of medicines by means of the syringe. It is good when pricks it is necessary to make 2-3 and the veterinary hospital is from you nearby. And what to do if frequent daily pricks are necessary for your canine friend? It is not necessary to despond, learn to put to a dog a prick in withers independently – not such a difficult task.
It is required to you
- medicine, the syringe, water for injections, cotton wool, alcohol
Instruction
1. Important conditions – sterility. Do not think that only for the person the sterilization of hands and devices when carrying out various medical manipulations matters. Surely wash up hands with soap before you are to do to dog a prick. Also prepare sterile cotton wool, spirit solution and container with medicine. Pay attention that all necessary has to be from you in close proximity that it was not necessary to run on the apartment with the syringe in hands, searching for cotton wool or medicine. So, accurately open with clean hands packing with the syringe and, holding a needle tip in plastic packing, get it on the syringe basis.
2. Now gather medicine in the syringe. If solution is in an ampoule, open it by means of a file and gather contents the syringe. If you deal with solid which needs to be dissolved previously, gather in the syringe of special water for injections and, having punctured a rubber lid of a vial of medicine, enter it inside. The needle needs to be removed and again to close a cap, and to shake up solution to a uniform state. After medicinal substance completely to be dissolved, again puncture with other sterile needle a cover and gain necessary amount of medicine in the syringe. When medicine in the syringe is gathered, make sure that there is no vial of air left – press on the syringe until medicine does not appear on a needle surface.
3. The most responsible – a prick. Grope withers - it is the place where the neck comes to an end and shovels of a dog begin. The nervous terminations are not enough here, and important blood vessels pass far therefore even if you will make something not absolutely so, no harm to an animal from it will exist. So, collect by the left hand skin on withers pleated, and right fast confident movement enter a needle into the basis of this fold. You should not be afraid to enter a needle too deeply, you rumple that you have to enter medicine under skin, and to make it it is possible only if the puncture is not superficial. It is ideal to enter a needle on 2/3, but if at you it turns out deeper – it is quite good too. Now press the syringe, continuing to hold a fold in a collected state. When the syringe becomes empty, accurately take a needle and only after that straighten a fold on withers.