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Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #16 with Kaye Browne

Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #16 with Kaye Browne

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 THIS WEEK: (Full transcript below)Recently Ron's Producer Jessie's dog Moon, recently developed an abscess and required surgery. Kaye explains why abscesses are so common and that pets can get sepsis poisoning if not treated sooner rather than later. Kaye also talks about the benefits of having a 1st Aid Kit always handy plus some easy ways to keep your pet's toenails trimmed!And... Remember Valerie the Dachshund who survived 529 days alone on Kangaroo Island? They say she's put on weight!.. but why? And how did she survive? 00'00" - Welcome Ron Wilson00'06" - Why Abscesses Need To Be Checked01'18" - Benefits Of A 1st Aid Kit04'00" - Easy Ways To Trim Toenails05'41" - Valerie the Dachshund - How She Survived FULL TRANSCRIPT:RON: And now it's time for our weekly pet segment with our VETtalk On-Hold expert Kaye Browne - Kaye good morning! - (good morning to you) - Look we're going to talk today about some of the common, I was going to call it illnesses but they're things that can go wrong with your pets particularly dogs and one of the most common is it's a nasty sort of thing, it's the abscesses they get.How how do we deal with those? and are there particular symptoms that can tell you you're it's going to happen and why do they get them so often?KAYE: Well it's a very common illness and it's caused by bacteria often dogs will be just play fighting but they have bacteria on their teeth because we don't clean their teeth enough and so should they puncture the skin and that often happens around the neck or on a leg, the body tries to heal itself and it closes over the top of the wound and that causes a little pocket of puss! - sorry for anyone having breakfast right now that's right yeah um and unless that is treated and allowed to escape drained or you know punctured by the Vet and allowed to drain out that infection can travel through the body and cause a lot of serious illnesses actually so it's something to keep an eye out for and cats also get that as well cuz they have very very sharp teeth and lots of bacteria.RON: Now when you have your own family of course the first thing you do is stick a a first aid kit under the bathroom sink so that if anything goes wrong you can rush to that and sort the kids out but should we also maybe have some sort of first aid kit for our pets and if so what do we put in it?KAYE: Definitely a very very good idea and in fact you can sort of share your human one as well I dropped a heavy cast iron grill plate on my toe on the weekend oh my goodness I needed I needed the the styptic powder now the styptic powder is a common thing that people keep in case they accidentally nip the part of the claw that causes it to bleed so you can actually have a quick toenail and you can use that styptic powder or even just good old fashioned corn flour.So if you don't have that styptic just grab some corn flour from the kitchen and you can actually dab the claw in that and it'll temporarily stop the bleeding so it gets a chance to coagulate so a good idea is to have that to stop bleeding one thing, another thing a bottle of saline solution I don't know how many of our listeners have contact lenses but usually we have a bottle of saline solution or some of the those separate capsules of it in the in the bathroom cupboard keep a couple of those in your first aid kit for your pet. A very good idea, gauze pads very handy gauze rolls some scissors blunt tip scissors to cut those and my favourite thing given we're in Australia with some of the deadliest snakes in the world is to have not one but two snake bite bandages because you want to immobilize the part of the dog or cat or animal that's been bitten by a snake and get them to a vet ASAP.Have you ever had to put a snake bandage on Ron?RON: No I haven't but I think over the years the way of treating snake bite has certainly changed.KAYE: Definitely has. Years ago it used to be a joke that you know a very bad joke that you know Joe Blow out in the outback gets a snake bite but um his mate says "Mate you're gonna die because I'm not going to suck the poison out." It was the old fashioned joke about doing that but now what they've found is the important thing is to immobilize the patient, get them to a vet or a doctor if it's human so that the poison doesn't travel through the lymphatic system and slow everything down stop your breathing so don't worry about the type of snake or the antivenene that they use nowadays works on all snake poisonings and definitely don't try and kill any snake you come across because that's when most people get bitten.RON: Yeah just leave the darn thing alone. Alright now talking about our pets and the little things that they can get like abscesses it seems that sharp claws have a lot to do with that so let's talk a little bit about that sort of maintenance when should we look at cutting the pet's claws and how do we do it?KAYE: Okay, well first things first and we tend not to think about it but dogs ...
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