washing hands after parvo cases

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Anthony Dennison — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:01:32 GMT

Got one in currently that arrived OOH on Tuesday night after being treated for gastroenteritis for a few days at a local vets that doesn't to their own OOH.

I was on back up, when I was told there was a 5 month old dog with vomiting and diarrhoea coming in I told the vet on call to keep the dog in the car until a parvo test had been done. Suprise surprise, it's positive.

Original vet is refuting this and saying it's a false positive and the dog has a foreign body.

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

karen jones — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:50:56 GMT

we are in rural Shropshire and have had a big parvo outbreak this summer. This outbreak was very acute and we lost two with sepsis. It is out there still

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:46:44 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Dennison"]

[quote user="Jenny Boyd"]

I do work in a nice area but 6 years qualified and never seen one!

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You lucky thing. We get a few a year, and they often don't have any money either.

[/quote]I haven't seen a case for years but we had one a locum saw 18 months ago sadly he failed to treat it properly and it died. I found Virbagen Omega wonderful, it is expensive but they're better in 3 days so it saves more in hospital fees that it costs.

The fact that have got parvo and the owner having no money are of course intrinsically linked as they've probably not been vaccinated for that reason, the owner got it cheap from some dodgy dealer and lives in deprived area where there is a high incidence of similar cases so there is a high concentration of field virus.

The last one I saw belonged to a 'traveller' who of course had money but didn't want to pay. I told her if she left a deposit I'd treat it until the money ran out and then she'd have to pay again for the next stage. She came out with the well worn line that if I loved animals I'd treat if for nothing and added that I had an obligation to treat it so I was discriminating against her. I agreed to euthanase it for free just to get rid of her and gave her the details of the RCVS if she wanted to report me.

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Lucy Fleming — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:07:09 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Dennison"]

[quote user="Jenny Boyd"]

I do work in a nice area but 6 years qualified and never seen one!

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You lucky thing. We get a few a year, and they often don't have any money either.

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In my first job we often saw 1-2 a week! I do not miss them.

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Anthony Dennison — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 09:33:24 GMT

[quote user="Jenny Boyd"]

I do work in a nice area but 6 years qualified and never seen one!

[/quote]

You lucky thing. We get a few a year, and they often don't have any money either.

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:52:46 GMT

[quote user="Avril Mc Ginn"]from what I've read alcohol gels are useful for other infectious agents but not parvo![/quote]

Yeah, it's not that simple. It depends on exact concentration, (and length of exposure).

Sterilium is an alcohol gel. Ethanol 85%.

Not sure if the butan-2-one, the tetradecan-1-ol, or the propan-1-ol have any influence on spectrum of activity against non-enveloped viruses.

So if in doubt choose Sterilium.

But always look at the label of your alcohol. ( )

Sometimes in case of need I have used Virkon, which also does things to your skin but not too horribly, except with repeated exposure.

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Avril Mc Ginn — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 20:33:32 GMT

thanks evelyn,

from what I've read alcohol gels are useful for other infectious agents but not parvo!

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Avril Mc Ginn — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 20:32:04 GMT

Sterilium would be perfect thank you! I'm presuming same for parvo cleaning that organic matter needs to be removed first but with wearing gloves thats a good solution thanks!

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Jenny Harris — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 20:07:32 GMT

I do work in a nice area but 6 years qualified and never seen one!

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Francisco Gomez — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:58:58 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]

Sterilium kills parvo. Not seen a case in years

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In years! I admit my last confirmed one was over a year ago but I do hear about them often enough.

Will we able to get rid of it?

Maybe this could be a brexit'oportunity'!

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:43:47 GMT

Cripes, bleach is a fine disinfectant in many ways, but not suitable for use on hands. Physical washing will remove, I dunno, at least 95% of virus particles? Then alcohol gels are very good for disinfection of clean hands.

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Michael Woodhouse — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:19:35 GMT

Sterilium kills parvo. Not seen a case in years but would use that after removing gloves. Wash first in soap and water if obvious contamination

RE: washing hands after parvo cases

Bob Russell — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:25:23 GMT

I would be very reluctant to use bleach on hands.

A good, thorough wash to physically reduce the level of virus on the skin.