My dog is being treated for a sore on his leg. 4 weeks after initial cons it was discovered there was a tunnel wound under the sore. 4 weeks of antibiotics, healing and then erupting again.
He had surgery to have a look - he has 2 tunnel wounds under the sore, one is 8cm. No foreign body found, though I’m told that if one is there - eg grass seed they are very hard to find, so could be one still.
He had a dressing put on - standard dry dressing , padding, vet wrap. The follow up vet 2 days later was uncertain, but decided to recommend leaving wound undressed to dry out.
This was a week ago. I’m awaiting a referral to specialists (my request).
My immediate concern is the dressing. If I leave it without dressing, it will do what it’s been doing - dry out at surface, looked healed, but inside it can’t drain, so will erupt into a sore again. Also when I’ve researched, there seems to be idea that a tunnel wound should be packed and allowed to drain via a wet dressing. My vets are not addressing this point. I am also informed that many local specialists are not accepting clients unless life threatening condition due to nationwide shortage of vets!
If anyone knows of the accepted way to dress a tunnel wound in a leg, please, please could you let me know. I am dressing it now as leaving it open to air just made the wound more open. It’s at bottom of leg, he sleeps only on hard surfaces.