If you have a dog, then you have to be ready to the fact that she can injure to herself a paw on walk or to become the participant of ""dog"" dismantling. In order that the stop of bleeding did not become for you surprise, it is necessary to study elements of first aid in advance and to have near at hand a first-aid kit.
Instruction
1. If your dog was just scratched on walk, then a wound it is necessary to wash with any disinfecting solution (3% hydrogen peroxide, solution of a chlorhexidin), and then to grease edges with iodine or brilliant green.
2. If the wound deeper, then helps to stop the bleeding hydrogen peroxide. Plentifully wash out it a wound then apply the pressing bandage to the damaged site. For the fastest healing after a bleeding stop it is possible to impose antibacterial ointment (Levomekol or Vishnevsky's ointment) on a wound.
3. If bleeding very strong, then it it is necessary to stop as soon as possible. If the wound is on an extremity, then it is necessary to impose a plait on a paw. In the summer no more, than for 1.5 hours, in the winter no more than for thirty minutes. If the wound is on a body, then it is necessary to apply the dense pressing bandage (from make-shifts the feminine sanitary pad perfectly will approach) and as soon as possible to bring an animal to veterinary clinic.
4. If in a wound there are foreign objects, then they need to be removed. For this purpose cut off wool around a wound, wash out a wound surface by means of hydrogen peroxide, and then remove with tweezers foreign debris. If you are not sure that all pieces pulled out, then address the veterinarian who by means of a microscope will be able to carry out cleaning of a wound more carefully.
5. As a result of blow or a trauma from the car your pet can have an internal bleeding. If after accident the dog lies, at her pupils are expanded, mucous turned white and the low pulse is probed, then it is necessary to deliver urgently a dog to the veterinarian who will be able precisely to establish the diagnosis.
6. Owners of dogs should know also that the dog will try to lick any wound. For faster recovery of it it is better not to allow. If the wound is in area of the head, neck or trunk, then it is possible to put on a plastic collar which can be bought in veterinary pharmacy the head of the pet. If the wound is on an extremity, then over a bandage it is necessary to put on a usual sock, having recorded its basis an elastic rag which will not interfere with blood circulation.