My cocker spaniel got a hematoma and had surgery 10 days ago. His ear is draining and I am cleaning the surrounding areas daily due to the draining. My concern is that the base of his ear is still swollen. Is that normal? I go no post op care except to flush it, if necessary. I read above massaging the pockets may be good. I never did that.

Good day, my dog (German whirehaired pointer) has aural hematoma. He is 13 years old and we wonder if he will survive anesthesia. It is really bothering and if anesthesia is dangerous is there an alternative Can you advise pls

What about the homeopathic tablets Sulpher 30x and to bandage the dogs ear? I read that some people were successful with this. I have a Labrador with a big hematoma and I want to try this. I alraedy treated the ear mites - the cause of the head shaking.

My dog had a hematoma and it was removed yesterday. She is trying to remove the plaster on her ear by flapping her ear vigorously or rubbing that ear in any surface. Does her such actions will have a negative impact on her ear? Or will such actions increase the chance of a further hematoma? From today morning onwards she is forcefully exhaling. Is that normal? After how many days she can have a bath? Is rubbing her body with some antiseptics are advisable to avoid bad smell?

My dog has a swollen and hot left ear flap, like a water balloon. It doesn't seem like she is in pain though. When we touch it she doesn't seem to care. She has not been shaking or itching so I have no idea if is really a hematoma or just swollen from a bug bite or something?

My poor girl has had 2 aural hematomas in 2 years, 1 in each ear. The first surgery she was 12 and they stitched the ear all around and used small peices of tubing throughout the ear with stitches running through them. It took 3 months for ear infection and hematoma to heal with antibiotics,azthromisin ointment, ear drops and wound wash. So after excessive treatment at home and monthly trips to vet for them to put other medications in ear and $800 later she was healed ear looks fine. The 2nd hematoma was 4 months ago and was just as bad swole up over night and it was a Saturday so had to wait until Monday for vet to open which is her new vet because the other closed down... they do the surgery that day and had her ear completely wrapped up so I couldn't see, wrap comes of the next day and I see they put 11 different stitches all around and down in ear but this time they cut a 3inch slit on the inside of ear. Hematoma went away in a month but cut wasn't healing so they gave her another dose of antibiotics and wound wash but still didn't heal all the way so they refused to remove stitches for another month by then the skin was growing around the stitches and you could barely see stitches. Took her back cut was open an inch still so they left stitches. 2 weeks later she was whining again and her ear was warm the stitches where way too tight and almost embedded so being a nurse myself I removed all stitches and the cut could actually close then to heal. Her ear closed up that week and we haven't had any trouble at all EXCEPT she can't hear me now she can hear deep noises or if u holler she can somewhat hear but before this surgery she never had any hearing loss just wondering if this surgery/infection/ or medication put in ear could have caused this?? Or what I could do to help because it just seems to be getting worse.

well my husky Sammy has been scratching his ear. he had his surgery a few days ago, its seems very uncomfortable for him and he kept shaking his head when i re-wrap the bandage again the wound has also been exposed to air a few times . Is this a normal thing for dogs to scratch their ear...?

My puppy has a lot of raised bumps on the inside of his ear. He scratches his ears a lot and has many skin problems. I took him to the vet for his skin and ears and my vet said she had never seen anything like his ears before. I came home and did research and I feel like he might have ear hematoma, but why would my vet say they didn’t know what it was? Should I take him to a new vet? They prescribed him cefpodoxime and prednisone for his itchy skin, but didn’t really do much for the ears. They somewhat drained about 4 of the little lumps and said there was cystic like fluid and a little bit of blood. They didn’t really give me any answers as to what was wrong with his ears and I’m not really sure what to do about his ears.