Ok, I posted a few days ago about my girl's bumblefoot. Her foot was badly swollen. I was doing epsom salt soaks for a few days and got the kernel out on day 3. It was tiny. I tried last night removing the scab in hopes of getting at the infection but I just got blood so I stopped because I didn't want to cut into delicate tissue. I couldn't find any of the hard pus like others do even though her bump does feel hard. I called around for vets but nobody's been able to give me any answers on seeing me with my duck except someone over an hour away from me. So I decided that today, I was going to perform bumblefoot surgery.
So I got my scalpel ready and made an incision into the side of the bump where I thought pus would be. I got a lot of thick bloody pus but barely any cheesy pus. It was more like little bits and pieces of the yellow stuff. I was unable to squeeze or dig out any more pus so I soaked her foot in epsom salt and wrapped it up with iodine, Neosporin and oregano oil/lavender essential oil infused water on a gauze pad to help the healing. I checked again on her foot a few hours later and there was no discharge and the foot is still swollen and kinda hard where the swelling is. I'm not sure how to proceed. Any ideas? She seems a bit happier and isn't standing on the one foot like before, and seems to like the attention. But I don't want to torture her with the constant digging and picking.
So I got my scalpel ready and made an incision into the side of the bump where I thought pus would be. I got a lot of thick bloody pus but barely any cheesy pus. It was more like little bits and pieces of the yellow stuff. I was unable to squeeze or dig out any more pus so I soaked her foot in epsom salt and wrapped it up with iodine, Neosporin and oregano oil/lavender essential oil infused water on a gauze pad to help the healing. I checked again on her foot a few hours later and there was no discharge and the foot is still swollen and kinda hard where the swelling is. I'm not sure how to proceed. Any ideas? She seems a bit happier and isn't standing on the one foot like before, and seems to like the attention. But I don't want to torture her with the constant digging and picking.