Post-Bumblefoot surgery

[Efraincal25]

I've not had much luck with clindamycin for bumblefoot specifically, I have only used it orally. I used it long term once to treat a suspected bone infection and just had to monitor droppings for changes and adjust dosing as needed. The bird lived years afterwards with no apparent issues. To me it appears that the upper part (closer to the toes) is healing, not sure about the lower part. It may just be bruising from the surgery etc, I can't really tell. I would continue what you are doing, and keep an eye on it. If that lower part starts to look worse, the black is spreading, it swells, or smells bad (I smell wounds every time I change dressings-if it's bad you'll know), then I would soak the foot, remove the scab, and pack it with sugardine daily and redress. I've had very good results with sugardine on some very bad bumblefoot cases.

So this is how it’s looking today there was some fluid on the gauze could this be a sign of infection?

 

[coach723]

Hard to say. I know this may sound gross, but tomorrow when you change bandages and treat, put your nose right up to that foot and smell it. It doesn't look like anything obvious going on, doesn't look swollen, red, etc. It's hard to tell from a picture if that is just bruising and scab, or if there is necrotic tissue there, where it's black. If it's necrotic it will smell bad, likely rotten, and that will need to be removed. Sometimes, with bumblefoot, it will heal on the surface, closing in a pocket beneath, where infection remains. That can take a while to surface and be obvious. I find that sugardine, packed into the wound, helps it heal from the inside out and helps prevent that from happening. If you see the link given before on sugardine, there is a picture of one of my roo's feet, you can see that the tissue is pink and healthy looking, rather than black. That was a very large, and very deep bumble, that took quite a while to heal, but did and he lived for years afterwards with no recurrence. I did have to remove some necrotic tissue a couple of times at the beginning. Over time it stopped making pus and started looking like healthier tissue, until cleaning was minimal and it was just reapplying the sugardine and bandaging. I wish I had more pictures of the process, how it started, but I don't.

 

[Wilderre]

Hydrogen peroxide kills healthy tissue when used repeatedly.