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Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / March 2005SQ Injections for Cats
I just have a question for vets/techs out there. I was just wondering where everyone gives SQ injections to cats? With all the talk about fibrosarcomas, we're debating to stop scruff injections all together. One of our vets was researching fibrosarcomas on the internet and they were saying that it seems that even the action of the needle going in can cause them to form. Just looking for any thoughts, information, etc. Thank you! >I just have a question for vets/techs out there. I was just wondering >where [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > them to form. Just looking for any thoughts, information, etc. Thank > you! I believe SQ is the best way if you have to give antibiotic for example. It's very hard to give her something orally, because not every medicine is available in such a form and you cannot control the dosage accurately. Intramuscular injections are much more painful and the chance for any sideeffect is the same if not bigger compared to SQ. Intravenous may seem like a great idea, but most cats are not not easily restrainable and almost everything you give iv is excreted quite fast so you have repeat the injections more often. SQ is the easily tolerable by most cats, and I don't agree that the action of the needle is stimulant for sarcome formation. Where I work cats received millions of injections and I have never seen any side effect other than very rare abscess, and one or two vaccine fibrosarcomas. Thanks for your reply but it wasn't what I was asking for. I wasn't talking about different routes of administration, I was asking WHERE on a cats body do you give SQ injections. ie scruff always, alternate, never scruff, where ever you can, experiences with fibrosarcomas, etc. The story is that one of my vets' cats has a very hard lump between shoulder blades in scruff so she started researching fibrosarcomas. She found that research shows that ANY injection - not just vaccines - can cause one to form and that studies have shown that the action of the needle going in can cause it also. They were saying that its best to give SQ injections near the rump (ie over hips) because then at least if something really bad does happen, at least you can take off a leg where as if it were in the scruff, theres really nothing you can do without removing some of the dorsal spinal processes (if that even would be enough). > I was asking WHERE on a cats body > do you give SQ injections. I live in Croatia, I have never seen anyone giving SQ injections between the shoulder blades.I have to go with my own experience and say that I have never seen any side-effect connected to injections other than abscess and fibrosarcoma(both rare).Here, almost everyone give SQ injections on the side, mostly because if abscess does happen, it can be drained more easily than in other positions on the body. If a fibrosarcoma forms "near the rump (ie over hips)" taking a leg won't help as the rump is still part of the torso.  SignatureMar --------- Vet Tech student > They were saying that its best to give SQ injections near the rump (ie > over hips) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > can do without removing some of the dorsal spinal processes (if that even > would be enough). |
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