We are having to give our dog IV treatments at home injected into her back. I’m making sure to lift her skin and make sure not to poke her muscle. Issue is when we remove the needle lots of the fluid is coming out. Am I doing something wrong? Massage skin so it absorbs better? We administered the IV slower this time but still had same result. Any help would be appreciated.
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I am very familiar with administering subcutaneous iv fluids to dogs. After the fluids, try holding gauze or other clean cloth type product (kleenex, papertowel etc) on the hole with steady pressure for a bit. Might have to kind of pinch the skin since pushing down on the fluid squirts it out worse Or maybe do less fluid twice as often.
Parvo?
Yeah we had the same time. Just hold a paper towel over it when you pull the needle out.
In reply to Justjim75 :
Sadly yes. Apparently it’s freak case as clinic we took her to said they haven’t seen this happen to older dogs very often. We felt bad they basically had to decontaminate he whole place after we left. 4 days in she’s still fighting holding fluids down and hasn’t attempted eating. Thankfully she seems to be responding well to treatments so far
Had to do this as a kid (both parents vets) and yes, grab a gauze pad and as you pull the needle out you sort of pinch the injection site with the gauze pad and hold it for a bit.
It's not "IV" if your not in a vein. "SubQ." But, yeah, put some pressure on it.
Good advice here. Good luck!
Past hour we’ve been giving her small amounts of water and she’s been able to keep it down!! Dehydration is our biggest worry. You can see it in her face she’s getting back to herself.
thanks everybody
I used to have to do this for a cat. I found that if I went a bit further under the skin with the needle to make the bubble further away from the puncture, it worked a bit better. Took some finesse with rolling my fingers to let the needle follow under the skin. Then as you retract the needle you can hold your finger between the bubble and the hole for a few seconds until the hole knits up.
Some vets will coat the needle with a bit of silver nitrate which helps quickly stitch up the hole, but that is only for pretty extreme cases. The silver nitrate can be pretty stingy for the pup.
Older animals (just like older humans) have trouble with the initial knitting and it takes longer to plug holes. If you were injecting a puppy, you could probably pull out the needle and squeeze the bubble and have none come out.
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