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Thread: Neosporin

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    Neosporin

    One of my cribos damaged some of his scales right behind his head while striking for a rat.

    He was in his hide box and got good scrape drawing blood - I disinfected it and have been applying neosporin for a couple of days. Due to him being a squirrelly bugger the ointment has been applied liberally to the surrounding area.

    Lo and behold I check on my big boy this morning and discovered that a very thin layer of his scales are sloughing off where the ointment was applied.

    Again, just a thin pigmented layer - the scale is still there - a shed's worth of scale has come of in the area. He's about week out from a shed (he's pretty regular).

    Being a worrywart, I e-mailed the vet who responded:

    " I have seen sloughing from neosporin before - it's due to the petroleum jelly type base it's in. No serious harm to worry about.... but wouldn't use it anymore Do you have any silvadene cream at home? It is an antibacterial and fungistatic agent in a water based cream - great for sunburn, too! If not - give me a call at the office tomorrow and I'll send some home with you. You are more than welcome to bring him in also! Definitely keep up the dilute chlorhexidene baths also. Key is to prevent infection in this area while the scales repair."

    Interesting - I've seen Neosporin recommended countless times before and have never heard of this side effect.

    Thought I'd post, just in case someone has this issue in the future. Had me pretty worried.

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    Re: Neosporin

    Actually, I am glad to see your post. Alice has two scratches under his chin for which I took him to the vet. She gave me Silvadene. It's so thick that I have trouble spreading it on before he jerks his head away. I had seen Neosporin mentioned so many times on here that I was thinking of getting some of that. After reading your post, I think I'll just try a bit harder to get the Silvadene on him. I would hate to make the area worse than it already is.

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