VET CASE. Video 1/3, 2/3, 3/3. What to do when
you adopt a hamster with a leg fracture?
12 Jan 2023
Consultation.
"I adopted this hamster via a Facebook
advert which said that the owner had cats and could not keep this
hamster!" the courier lady in her late 30s told me. "He was
lame on the right hind leg, but I did not think it was serious."
"He
has a lower leg bone fracture," I told her. "I could feel
the sharp end of a broken bone protruding out of the skin!".
"It could just be hairs," my assistant commented based
on observation, without examination.
"The white piece
certainly looks like hairs," I replied. "However, I could
feel it and it was sharp at the end."
My assistant agreed it was a fractured piece of femoral-tibial
bone of the right hind leg. Physical examination is most
important.
"You have two options for treatment," I
said to the owner who has two Syrian hamsters.
"Option 1 is
to amputate the infected painful foot below the knee. The hamster
will live normally with 3 good legs.
"Option 2 is to
treat the big infected swelling with medication - antibiotics and
anti-inflammatory. The chances of success are very slim as the bone
fragment had protruded out of the skin and infections had gone
inside, leading to a big red swelling."
The owner said,
"A dwarf hamster costs $20.00 only as compared to the surgery.
But I have had adopted him and will help him." She decided to
pay for the amputation surgery.
This was a very kind-hearted lady. Surgery will be done 2 days
later by Dr Daniel.
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