stitch hanging out!!

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- 02/16/2016 at 9:37 PM
  Ellie&Alexa
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  My bunnies got spayed 5 days ago. One of their stitches is
  Hanging out. Is that normal for disolvable stitches? Or did she
  Pull it out a bit? The incision looks good.
- 02/16/2016 at 10:49 PM
  drwil
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  Stitches do not dissolve at an even rate. Their residence time is rated by time to break not time to disappear.
  
  When I assisted with large animal surgery we would find stitches with one break but were otherwise very much intact. Wound healing should be mostly complete but bunny might pull out remains of the stitches.
  
  As long as no infection sets in everything should be fine. I research medical plastics for industry and we have reports of adults (humans) pulling out sutures from childhood surgeries as the body slowly pushes them out.
- 02/16/2016 at 11:20 PM
  Ellie&Alexa
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  Good information. Thanks. I held Ellie while my husband clipped the hanging stitch but not all the way. He left 1/8 inch hanging so it doesn’t unravel. Hope that was ok. There is no sign of infection. No bumps or anything. I think it had healed almost all the way in 5 days. Is that possible?
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