good luck with the cream!
Thanks for the tip! I'll hold off on her bath for a little while longer thenI wouldn't because the scab will soften and might come off prematurely! Just my opinion of course. Once the scab comes off on it own I would give it a couple of days! I'm thinking of when I had plastic surgery, they make you keep
area dry until all scabing is gone and area is completely healed.
Now that you mention this I too keep my wounds covered and moist. I stumbled across it quite by accident. Being in construction I get booboo's all the time and the hands are always dirty. I used to clean them and let them scab over and had the tight itchiness. I would always ding it and get it dirty too.I haven't known what to say thus far, just thinking good thoughts for you and Ms. Target!
On the wound healing front, the trend now in human medicine is for a moist wound healing environment. I recently had a nasty wound on my thumb area and we treated it with the moist method.....I have to say the difference is night and day! Recovery has been rapid, virtually painless (on an area that is constantly being moved) and almost pleasant.
It has been discovered that scabs actually impede healing. Not to mention the tightness and itchiness in the healing process (which I am sure would be a target for a picky bird). For my wound I was advised to do a bandage change twice a day and clean the wound with plain old soap and water each time, pat dry and apply a layer of Vaseline before reapplying a sterile nonstick dressing. Like I said above, the healing process was incredible and I will never go back to letting it "breathe" and scab over.
I'm not sure if there is a way to successfully approximate this for a bird, logistics may just not be there and of course suitability would also depend on the site of the wound. But the scabby tight, sore, itchy healing spot would just be a magnate for a bird to pick and dig and reopen for a long time I would think. Just something to think about on your healing journey.