Bearded Dragon eye/head injury

Question

head injury  

head injury   Please help!!! My husbands cat got a hold of my 5 months old bearded dragon. After that she was missing for 5 hours and I just found her in the kitchen, she was actually coming towards me. She has a wound on top of her head and she doesn`t open her right eye. I cleaned her up with water  and put her in her tank. She crawled right up to her heating lamp. She did hiss at me pretty bad and she is totally alert. I have no emergency vet near by. I do have Bacitracin Zinc Ointment USP and another first aid Triple Antibiotic Plus at home, can I use this on her? I`m going crazy , she is so little :(

Answer
Cats have VERY 'dirty' mouths, and there is an extraordinarily high risk of infection, with a cat bite.  Take her in to a vet tomorrow, if there is no emergency vet available now.

Antibiotic ointment, the type WITHOUT painkiller, is reasonable safe to use on small wounds on reptiles, but it may cause scales to slough, and shouldn't be used on large wounds such as that one.  You can disinfect the wound with betadine (an iodine disinfectant sold at most drug stores).

No topical disinfectant or treatment is going to be enough for a cat bite, and the faster you can get her to a vet, the better her chances of a full recovery.  A good reptile vet should prescribe antibiotic injections for something like this.  (If they try to give you oral antibiotics for a reptile, find a different vet).