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Jaw and head injury, can anyone offer helpful advice?
Our 5 month old cat was attacked by dogs on Christmas day. She is an outdoor cat. We were able to save her. There are no vets in the area of the world where we are living.
She was bleeding through her nose and eye. After her initial shock she is breathing normally. She is lethargic but is walking about. Her head is swollen and her jaw dislocated, or at least I think so. I also think she has a concussion. Sounds like liquid or blood squishing if you touch it.
She cannot eat or drink. I have fed her with a syringe. She went to the bathroom twice since the accident. Her top and bottom jaw seems to be okay, not broken, from what I can feel. They are totally misaligned.
I've put warm compresses on her head and next to her body. There is a lump on the side around her stomach area.
If we stroke her she purrs and has been purring and making sounds like she used to. She doesn't seem to be in pain, no yowling. She has opened the eye which she was bleeding out a little. Now it remains shut. From what I could see is that there is a scratch on the white eye covering.
Is it possible to realign the jaw by ourselves? Should I just let her be? How many times a day should I feed her.
Our main concern is the jaw. I don't know if it would make things worse if w try to realign it.
We have other cats two adults and another kitten, same age. When we feed the others she sniffs at the food and makes licking motions but cannot eat.
Any help would be much appreciated.
She was bleeding through her nose and eye. After her initial shock she is breathing normally. She is lethargic but is walking about. Her head is swollen and her jaw dislocated, or at least I think so. I also think she has a concussion. Sounds like liquid or blood squishing if you touch it.
She cannot eat or drink. I have fed her with a syringe. She went to the bathroom twice since the accident. Her top and bottom jaw seems to be okay, not broken, from what I can feel. They are totally misaligned.
I've put warm compresses on her head and next to her body. There is a lump on the side around her stomach area.
If we stroke her she purrs and has been purring and making sounds like she used to. She doesn't seem to be in pain, no yowling. She has opened the eye which she was bleeding out a little. Now it remains shut. From what I could see is that there is a scratch on the white eye covering.
Is it possible to realign the jaw by ourselves? Should I just let her be? How many times a day should I feed her.
Our main concern is the jaw. I don't know if it would make things worse if w try to realign it.
We have other cats two adults and another kitten, same age. When we feed the others she sniffs at the food and makes licking motions but cannot eat.
Any help would be much appreciated.
What awesome news!!! I am so happy that you found someone to look at your kitty!
Your instincts were right on to be worried about Ronoxan 100. I did an internet search and it is WAY too high for a cat. The 100 mg is a dose for a dog. I found this info on the following website.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3187973
Cut and paste this link! Also, this antibiotic is very important, because the risk of infection is very high with a dog bite! Your cat definitely needs it!
Please keep us updated!
Your instincts were right on to be worried about Ronoxan 100. I did an internet search and it is WAY too high for a cat. The 100 mg is a dose for a dog. I found this info on the following website.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3187973
Cut and paste this link! Also, this antibiotic is very important, because the risk of infection is very high with a dog bite! Your cat definitely needs it!
Please keep us updated!
Hopefully the kitty will be okay. When i googled where you lived they said they are really hurting for vets as they all leave. Please keep us posted on how the kitty is doing. I am so glad you found someone!!!!!
after trying to find someone who could help me yesterday. I found a person "vet" who works with livestock. But he is an Alcoholic or so I was told. The thing is as he told me he aws not trained to work with small animals nad has very little real life experience.
The thing is that he told me he has had insufficient training this is also a problem in other work areas e.g. you can become an electrician in 3 months but you are not provided with the sufficient tools.
The guy was nice enough to try to help the kitten looked at the jaw but said without an anesthetic. He cant help and was not able to reset it. He gave me another contact and we contacted him per phone. A doc in the capital Praia of the island. I went there today 2 1/2 hour drive. He gave her an anesthetic reset her jaw as much as he could.
No Xray or anything.
He prescribed the following:
Ronaxan 100 said give her 1/2 pill morning and evening
Deep Heat, he told me to massage this into her jaw and push it daily in the right direction.
I didn't realize what he gave me until I had it in my hand. I don't think this is a good idea, to use this for animals!? I'm not planing on using it on her.
Please let me know what you think and if you have any other suggestions let me know.
She can open her jaw, it is still crooked that is what the Deepheat is for to push it more back into the right direction. I will not know what her exact condition is until she recovers from the anesthetic which she is still woozy from.
Cape Verde/ Cabo Verde is a group of islands off the coast of West Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde I'm living on the main island of Santiago. It's a nice place and the people are really friendly/warm. I think they like dogs more that cats because of the huge amount of dogs I see here. There are numerous strays and dog gangs. But there is not a single Veterinarian here. There hasn't been one for the last 4 yrs from what I was told. Maybe someone out there has a heart and would like to come and volunteer... Wishful thinking.
The thing is that he told me he has had insufficient training this is also a problem in other work areas e.g. you can become an electrician in 3 months but you are not provided with the sufficient tools.
The guy was nice enough to try to help the kitten looked at the jaw but said without an anesthetic. He cant help and was not able to reset it. He gave me another contact and we contacted him per phone. A doc in the capital Praia of the island. I went there today 2 1/2 hour drive. He gave her an anesthetic reset her jaw as much as he could.
No Xray or anything.
He prescribed the following:
Ronaxan 100 said give her 1/2 pill morning and evening
Deep Heat, he told me to massage this into her jaw and push it daily in the right direction.
I didn't realize what he gave me until I had it in my hand. I don't think this is a good idea, to use this for animals!? I'm not planing on using it on her.
Please let me know what you think and if you have any other suggestions let me know.
She can open her jaw, it is still crooked that is what the Deepheat is for to push it more back into the right direction. I will not know what her exact condition is until she recovers from the anesthetic which she is still woozy from.
Cape Verde/ Cabo Verde is a group of islands off the coast of West Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde I'm living on the main island of Santiago. It's a nice place and the people are really friendly/warm. I think they like dogs more that cats because of the huge amount of dogs I see here. There are numerous strays and dog gangs. But there is not a single Veterinarian here. There hasn't been one for the last 4 yrs from what I was told. Maybe someone out there has a heart and would like to come and volunteer... Wishful thinking.
You say there are vets in your area that treat livestock. If you are offering them money I don't see how they can turn you away if if they think your a little crazy. It seems like an extreme situation that is worth the risk of having the townspeople think you're a bit nutty.
Where is Cape Verde? Maybe an internet search will find a vet who can help your cat. I tried it after I read your message but to be honest I don't know where Cape Verde is. Also, I'm in Canada and I have had vets to treat livestock but part of their training is to be able to work with smaller animals too. I don't know if any of this is helpful but when our small dog broke his jaw there was no way we could reset it. Maybe like Savas suggested, a human dr might be able to help you.
It's easy enough to reset a dislocated jaw, *IF* you know basically what you are doing. It's not something that I would recommend the average pet owner try. A human doctor might be able to do it, because a jaw joint is a jaw joint, but as far as anesthetizing the cat first, I don't know if a human doc would know the correct dosage to give something as small as a cat. I am hesitant to post the method for realigning the jaw because I don't want anyone to try anything that might do more harm than good, so for that reason, I am not going into detail as to how to realign the jaw.
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