[Gpdd] Reply - After neutering problems

[Georgina.Wien at wintershall.com]

Helo Cindy,
I´m sorry to hear that your snowball is experiencing a problem with an
abcess. Actually guinea pigs seem to be quite prone to getting this sort of
abcesses. We have had quite a few of these infections with "foster piggies"
we had neutered in order to find them a good home. Our vet says this has
happened a lot to her guinea patients and it never did with other small
animals, so it has to be something with the guinea pigs.
I know the rinsing issue is quite an effort and the pigs hate it. But it
does work out in the long run. What is important you need to keep going
until all the infection is out, otherwise it can come back and burst -
unnoticed - into the little guys body, if this happens there is not much of
a chance to rescue him. Our (meaning the vets and mine, where I am
something like a guinea pig for her, as she knows I´ll come back, when I
feel something isn´t working out just quite right) experience is, the best
is to rinse until you can´t withdraw any more pus, continue for another 3
days. Then leave to close and rub into the skin with - I know this will
come up odd, and I´m already hearing people flaming me for this, but she is
the vet - a black very sticky/greasy ointment normally used for wounds on
oxen. This somehow pulls the infection into a small located area. Continue
creaming for 5 days, drain abcess once more and there you go, you did it.
The first pig we treated like this hated me after all the rinsing business,
so when it came to another I always gave him a very special treat after the
rinsing and this did the trick.
We added amynin (some vitamin coktail) to their drinking water while they
were treated, in a concentration of 1 ml amynin to 20 ml water.
Hope this helps in some way, if only the amazement, how very strange the
methods are set out in Germany.
Kind regards
Georgina