VET CASE STUDY – TELE-CONSULTATION ON A RED-EARED SLIDER WITH
SWOLLEN PAW.
Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow). 20 May
2023.
On 20 May 2023 just after midnight, the owner WhatsApp
to me the first image of the swollen paw of her 3-year-old female
red-eared slider. "Should I walk in or make an
appointment? My red-eared slider has a paw abscess."
The
younger generation cares very much for their pets and many will
research the internet to arrive at a diagnosis. In this case, is it a
paw abscess? I asked for sharper images and videos preferably. "The
slider bites me," said the lady owner. "I can't take more
images!"
What is the solution? "Turn the slider
upside down and take close-up videos of the front and sides of the
right fore paw," I WhatsApp back. She did an excellent job and I
was able to tell that the swollen right fore paw as due to a
long-standing inflammation from multiple wounds. So it was not just
one paw abscess but several, over many weeks. She confirmed that.
What is the diagnosis via tele-consultation?
The
free-roaming slider in the rooms could have her nails or paw trapped
on some objects or had sharp hook-like things penetrating her lower
paw and interdigital areas. Her water tank was free of objects or
stones and pebbles. Therefore, the cause of the injury was her
lifestyle of wandering in the rooms and getting injured over the past
weeks.
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