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First Aid Kit

For Inexperience Owners who need to get to
a vet for more help:
- Quick-Stop
- Nail Clippers
- Alcohol
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Heating pad with thermostat
- Baby food chicken and fruit
- Glideraide
- Freeze Dried Tofu
- Honey or nutri-cal can be rubbed along the glider's gums, if you
have a lethargic glider that won't lick at it.
- Q-Tips to clean wounds and apply medication
- 1 cc syringes without needles for oral medications
- marsupial milk for emergency feeding
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e-collar
- sterile cotton pads/bandages
- toothpicks and small adhesive tape to make splint
- french catheter #5 for feeding babies and adults
- pedialyte
- mineral oil
- Aquarium or small critter keeper for injured/rejected joeys
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| For Experienced Owners who know how to use
these items can add them to the above the items listed:
-Lactated Ringers Solution, that I keep on hand if I ever
need to subcutaneously inject it again - only in case
of extreme dehydration and/or lethargy (It's replaced
often). I think I am going to stop keeping this on
hand, but I know I always have a place I can get it
when I need it (you can get it from your vet).
-Neo-Calglucon - liquid calcium supplement, it's sweet,
and a good/fast way to get calcium into them, you
can mix it with anything they like. You can get it from
your vet, it's harder to get from your pharmacy these
days.
-Sterile 25 and 30 gauge needles
-Sterile syringes
-Oral syringes of varying sizes (some with very tiny tips
for force feeding if necessary.
-Kaolectrolyte electrolyte replenisher - it's like Pedialyte,
only it is a powder that you can mix up, so it is less
expensive and you only use what you need.
-Kaopectate - for severe diarhhea - use SPARINGLY, I'm
talking barely dip the VERY tip of your finger in and
let them lick it off, they usually like it. And ONLY use
when the diarhhea is so bad that it is putting the baby
at risk for severe dehydration. This is not a cure, this is
to help keep your little one from getting down too far
with dehydration while your veterinarian finds out what
is wrong, always use with veterinarian's knowledge and
under their supervision PLEASE.
Please remember that even the stuff I list at the top of the list,
although I keep it, it should always be used only in extreme cases and
under the supervision of a knowledgeable veterinarian. They are only
short term fixes, and by no means take the place of proper veterinary
care.
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