Thank you so much for the video! My cat diagnosed with FIP 3 days ago, and his medicine should be administered via subcutanous injection and your video really helps mee! Thank youu
my cat too. he freaked out last night from his first injection. has your cat freaked out and if so have they gotten better or do you have tips? it really scares me doing it all on my own
Omg my cat was diagnosed with FIP, she’s been such a sweetie until the last couple of days! I can’t stand having to stick her multiple times just for her to squirm and have the needle come out
You might want to instruct people to withdraw the plunger before putting the needle into the bottle, then push the air drawn into the syringe, into the bottle, to avoid causing a reverse vacuum inside the bottle, as otherwise, people will be fighting their medication being sucked back into the bottle.
When I said withdraw the plunger, I hope you didn't take that to be to pull it all of the way out of the syringe's plastic housing. Pull the plunger back to the amount of medication you'll be giving (air), then push that amount (or a few more milliliters...a line or 2 on the syringe's side) into the medication vial. Tap out any air bubbles you see and push them back into the bottle and withdraw medication again until you're rid of all the air bubbles. It can be taxing at first, but you'll quickly get the hang of it!! 💉
This was helpful in some ways but not others...no explanation for why to change out needles midway, and the "pulling back" aspect wasn't clear at all. Thank goodness I read a WikiHow article that mentioned drawing in with the syringe while it's inserted because that's not AT ALL what I gathered from this video. I did find other aspects of the video very helpful, but I do recommend redoing it with clarifications like this. Also, it would help if you addressed things like the arguments below that this isn't a safe place to inject bc of injection site sarcomas. I don't know if there's an actual alternative for at-home administration, but an explanation at least for why doing it this way would be greatly appreciated!
In case you're still wondering, the reason you change out the needle is because inserting it into the vial can slightly blunt it. Using a new needle ensures it is sharp and penetrates the skin easily, which will also cause less pain for the cat.
Thank you so much for this video! Due to the quarantine, my vet couldn’t walk me through giving my senior kitty b12 injections so she linked me a couple videos and yours has been the most helpful by far!
Ask your vet if B12 pills will suffice. I give them to my diabetic cat and she loves them (fish flavor). After all those insulin injections I don't have the heart to stick her any more than necessary. I also use urine test strips to check for glucose & ketones instead of another stick.
Thank you you are life savers. My poor cat had to suffer one of my poorly executed injection and he has been a little bity... No more for both of our sakes.
You should advise individuals to inject the same amount of air into the bottle each time as the amount of medication being withdrawn to avoid causing a vacuum with future medication withdrawals.
I’m glad I found this video. I’m going to have to give my cat one of these injections, and this was helpful. Still a little nervous, but I’ll give it a try when it’s time.
Thank you! While a vet tech did show me how to do this last week, I still felt uneasy. I'm glad I did watch as I forgot about the part of pulling it back before injection.
@@idoliketobebythesea3757 Good so far! It isn't terrible at all. I sometimes worry I may stab myself or inject it too deep, but nothing bad has happened. :) The whole pulling the stopper back to check for blood doesn't work well on a fluffy cat you are injecting with red vitamin b!
Thank you!! I've been trying to figure out what I was doing wrong giving my cat his medicine. I had done all the steps but when I tried to put the medicine in it won't go in. But today I tried again and I pulled the needle back just slightly and for whatever reason it was enough that the medicine actually went in like it was supposed to. Thank you so much for this video it really does help pet owners be able to be confident when giving their pets medication in this manner.
Good video. However, more and more veterinarians now prefer to give cats subcutaneous infections (vaccines included) on their hips or side rather than among the cat's shoulder blades. This seems to lower the risk of malignant skin cancer like the injection-induced sarcoma.
That's just what I was thinking. In 2018 I didn't think any clinic would still be giving any injection in the scuff. This is where I used to give my cats injections way back when no one knew better but with the new guidelines in regards to Injection site Sarcoma in felines I was looking for an up-to-date video demonstrating how low on the limbs you are now supposed to give the different vaccines. I'm surprised that a video made in 2018 didn't show the correct method.
@@brandypenell9918 Can you suggest a good video for this, orr an article, or could you just tell me the basics, especially if there are any concerns to watch for in using those areas? At any rate, thanks for the heads-up. I will investigate this topic now and five minutes ago I had no idea.
Just a few things about the video. You need close-up shots. Show those bubbles in the syringe and show how To flick those bubbles out. Show how to do this with a normal size cat or a very small thin cat. A heavier cat is easier to see what and where you’re doing this but I think more people can relate like me who has a very thin cat with cancer. you provide no explanation for using two needles. One to draw and one to administer. Other than that thank you as I appreciate the video. One last thing it would be helpful again to show up close and explain the bevel on the needle.
Yeah, she wasn't very clear. You draw back a little bit on the syringe itself. Ie, as if you were drawing liquid out. You want to see if you hit a vein.
@@deprofundis3293 You're supposed to pull the plunger, not the whole syringe? Wow, I got the completely wrong idea from the video. Not that it would have helped me if you're supposed to pull in air either way...
RN for humans here. You put your finger on the diaphragm of the vial and did not wipe it with alcohol before inserting the needle. In the 5 years since this video was made the injection sites have changed because of risk of sarcoma development, in order to limit the complication to limb(s): FVRCCP vaccine: below the R elbow Feline Leukemia vaccine: below the L stifle Rabies vaccine (by Florida law, only a licensed veterinarian can administer): below the R stifle
Hi there- can you please clarify what you mean by “you don’t want to go through the skin- you want to be in the subcutaneous space”… what is the subcute space if not through the skin? Thank you so much!
I think they mean, you don't want to accidentally poke through a second layer of skin out the other side. I did that once. 😬 I made the initial poke through the skin, but I went too far and it poked through the other side. And I suddenly saw dribbles of red B12 fluid on her fur when emptied the syringe. I felt so bad.
I have a very small, thin cat. (5 lbs). Is it OK to give the injection anywhere I can tug up a tent of skin (she doesn’t have a lot of loose skin, but I can get some in her side just behind her shoulder, above her elbow, or in that area right at her hip, there’s some loose skin between her flank and femur area.
Yes. It helps to pull up on the skin by the fur to insure you are injecting into fatty tissue (to ensure little to no pain) and inject straight in (vertically not at a diagonal) stick the needle all the way in then slowly push the medicine.
I have some questions Is it normal for the cat to hurt after the injection?? And what might be the symptoms after an injection?? Because me and mother had to do it to our kittens and then we think they were in pain or maybe we did something wrong because they were moving strangely.
Important question! I was not told to insert the whole needle by my vet so I assumed that if I got the minimal amount in I would be fine. However after that I saw a diagram of how much skin there is above the sub Q space. If you only insert the tip of the needle you will get it only into the skin. But then another vet told me that I shouldn’t worry if that was how I was doing it because it would eventually absorb. It would just take a little bit longer.
I read in a wiki how that you will see bubbles if it's pushed through the skin. I unfortunately failed my first time...thought by all signs it was in, but it wasn't. :(
Injections or vaccines on the neck or in between shoulder blades are very outdated due to the high risk of health issues usually linked to tumours. Why is this still in use in the US/Canada?
I don't know what went wrong, but following these instructions lead to failure. I inserted the needle into the loose skin, though there was a lot less of it so it was much harder than it looked in the video, and did the gentle pull back thing to make sure it was where it was supposed to be, and tried to inject the medicine, and it all squirted out between my cats hair onto the fur in small droplets. All of that expensive liquid wasted and my cat didn't get a drop of it. I can only assume that somehow the needle pushed through the skin and out again on the other side. I'm going to have to find better instructions before I try this again, because these clearly aren't foolproof and I'm probably one of the worst fools in written history.
Why do you say to change out the needle halfway through the process? The other vids I see don't say to do that. Super annoying to suggest something and NOT SAY WHY. Maybe watch a how-to video or two before you try to make one. Doing that might also help you see how obnoxious it is to add in distracting music.
Just watch a different video then or look up why. Everything I’ve watched, which is multiple videos because I want to learn as best as possible, has said to draw up the medication with one needle and inject with a different.
They pick up pathogens off the medicine bottle and are no longer sterile and risk infection without changing. There are other options to avoid that but this is one way.
Duhhh, if it didn't have any health problems, it might not have needed the injections. Is selling clothing in larger sizes also PROMOTING obesity? And because this cat has such a big layer of fat, I find it much clearer to see where to inject than in videos with skinnier cats, so it serves its purpose.
