 Dissolvable Stitches Poking Through
One of Riley's stitches is poking through....They were supposed to be internal dissolvable stitches. You can feel it and see it.... It doesn't seem to be bothering him.... but last Monday when I got home from work, he had slipped out of his onsie and had apparently been licking it... It was red and swollen.... so I have been keeping him in his e-collar while I am at work because I am worried that he will start messing with it during the day and it may end up infected. [We have made it this far, with no infection.]
Tomorrow will be 3-weeks, and the stitch looks the same.... Like it isn't going to dissolve and needs to be trimmed down close to the skin, or something. I called his vet office, this morning and they told me to just swing him by the office anytime and they would take a look at it. I have read that others have snipped the stitch themselves with a fingernail clipper, but would feel better having a techinician or someone more qualified than myself do it.
Has anybody else had this problem?
Here is a photo of him this morning, playing dead!! "Bang"!! |