First Aid Kit

12/12/04

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First Aid Kit

For Inexperience Owners who need to get to a vet for more help:
  1. Quick-Stop
  2. Nail Clippers
  3. Alcohol
  4. Hydrogen Peroxide
  5. Heating pad with thermostat
  6. Baby food chicken and fruit
  7. Glideraide
  8. Freeze Dried Tofu
  9. Honey or nutri-cal can be rubbed along the glider's gums, if you have a lethargic glider that won't lick at it.
  10. Q-Tips to clean wounds and apply medication
  11. 1 cc syringes without needles for oral medications
  12. marsupial milk for emergency feeding
  13. e-collar
  14. sterile cotton pads/bandages
  15. toothpicks and small adhesive tape to make splint
  16. french catheter #5 for feeding babies and adults
  17. pedialyte
  18. mineral oil
  19. Aquarium or small critter keeper for injured/rejected joeys

 

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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