Glider Medical Kit
If your glider is injured or ill you must seek medical help as soon as possible, this list is merely a first aid kit for quick and possibly life saving assistance.
- Cotton buds to clean wounds and apply medication
- 1 ml syringes without needles for oral medications
- 0.3 ml syringes with needles to give injections(**note: only give injections if your vet has instructed you and given you permission**)
- baby fingernail clippers, scissors and tweezers
- styptic powder to stop bleeding (used for shaving cuts!)
- puppy milk or marsupial milk for emergency feeding
- e-collar see MAKING AN E-COLLAR
- sterile cotton pads/bandages/gauze
- toothpicks and small adhesive tape to make splint, these will need cutting to size, don't have long pointed ends!!!
- french catheter #5 for feeding babies and adults or eye dropper
- lectade (electrolyte solution for the treatment of dehydration) if you cannot get this, gliderade will do
- mineral oil for constipation
- ky jelly for prolapsed penis
- sterile solution for cleaning wounds alternatively F10sc for wound cleaning
- F10 Wound healing ointment for cuts and grazes
A prolapsed penis is when the penis cannot retract into it's not in use position. It's a sure sign of a urinary tract infection for which you should seek veterinary help immediately. If it does not retract then the ends may die and have to be amputated!!!
PLEASE DO NOT SELF DIAGNOSE OR SELF MEDICATE SEEK VETERINARY HELP© Shropshire Exotics 01/01/07
