Hot Spot Question

[monique.c]

Hey Everyone

Snowy my golden pup had a couple of hotspots last week, we took him to the vet and she gave him a cortison injection, neotopic h cream and antibiotics. It has been about 5 days and the hot spots have all healed now.

Just a quick question though, the vet gave us antibiotics (cephalexin) and we have been giving him half a tablet twice a day and she said to give them till they are all gone, but we still have about 10 days supply left and his wounds are healed, should we still give him the rest of the antibiotics? I don't really want to give him more medicine than necessary.

Thanks for any help you guys give me, i'm happy to keep giving him the antibiotics if he needs them but just wanted to get other people's opinions.

[Rebanne]

all courses of anitbiotics should be finished by both humans and animals.

[persephone]

how about checking back with your vet ?They might like an update, anyway

[Staranais]

Don't stop giving them without checking with your vet.

It's generally important to completely finish any course of antibiotics you are given. If you stop giving the antibiotics before the course is complete this often allows resistant bacteria to survive. That means if the hotspot comes back, the same antibiotic might not work a second time, since the bacteria there will likely be resistant to it.

[monique.c]

Ok thanks, I will finish the course, thanks for the input.