ฝีจากแผลกัด

Key Facts

• Most common in outdoor cats from cat fights
• Common locations: facial cheeks, legs, base of tail
• Signs before rupture: fever, listlessness, appetite loss, tender swelling
• After rupture: foul-smelling pus drainage, raw skin area
• Treatment: lance and flush if unruptured, antibiotics, warm compresses
• Convenia (cefovecin) injectable antibiotic lasts 2 weeks — avoids oral dosing
• Test for feline-leukemia-virus and feline-immunodeficiency-virus 60+ days post-bite
• Ensure rabies vaccination is current — bites transmit rabies
• Most heal within one week; larger abscesses take longer
• Large abscesses may need surgical drain placement