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Location: Down South | We have been dealing with a nasty gash at elbow level. We've reached the point that deep tissue has healed and now waiting on new skin edges to close together. I've been using hydrotherapy every day on the open area to inhibit excess granulation and proud flesh. Do any of you have any other recommendations or topical treatments you have used that've proven successful? |
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| I had a horse with a bad cut on his front leg. We were having issues with proud flesh and an old race trainer gave us a recommendation which worked.
Take white sugar and rub it in the wound just until it starts to bleed 1-2x per day.
It sounds barbaric, but we had great results on several horses. |
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Location: Texas | Underwoods & baking powder. Stop hydroing!
See link for Underwoods product & specific instructions:
https://www.underwoodhorsemedicine.com/instructions/ |
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| Underwoods.
My filly was chased through a fence and landed in a bale accumulator last fall - 7 hours of stitches, two casts, and 4 months later - She is fine with minimal scars all thanks to Underwoods (and good Vets). I cannot say enough super positive things about that product and company. |
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Location: Southeastern Idaho | I did two things on a huge wound on the lower leg. Made a paste out of an antibacterial ointment (any will do...I used furocine ..sorry about the spelling) and meat tenderizer. Make it thick and smear it on. I was able to wrap the leg wound and kept that wrap on for 3 days. After the 3 days I would spray Schrieners Herbal Solution on the wound for 3 days then go back to the paste.
Any meat tenderizer will work too. Doesn't matter if salt is in it...I thought that would hurt but my colt didn't even notice. I don't think proud flesh has the same nerve endings as regular tissue.
Shown is day one of the cut and the final picture. No proud flesh and just a slight thickening of the leg. I would do this procedure again as it seemed to work.
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| i used vetericyn and alumasheild on my filly when she sliced her chest open. not a bit of scaring of proud flesh. Granulex also works well. |
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| You want to pretend you are NOT wanting the wound to heal in order to eat out the proud flesh .... if you allow skin to close the proud flesh will turn into a gristle and become a hard knot.
All you need are the following cheap items which can be bought anywhere ...
Caustic Powder (wonder dust); greasy Furazone; and thumb pressure from a water hose to spray the wound which will clean scabs out and create good blood flow to the area for healing.
4 day repetitive program .............................>>>
Days 1-3 ... spray with hard thumb pressure; puff lots of caustic powder on wound ... will turn green; you may need to do this twice a day to get ahead of the proud flesh growth ......
DAY 4 ... spray with water; rub lots of greasy furazone on wound and black scabs that haave formed to soften them up so some of them can be blown off each day with the hydro therapy... no caustic powder on day 4 ...
Keep repeating the above until you have a nice small pink scar and wound is totally closed .... this simple routine also keeps the proud flesh from trapping a bacterial infection underneath it .... if you have drainage ... smear furazone below the wound to keep drainage from blistering the skin ....
This works and is too cheap for vets or drug makers to recommend ...
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Location: Heart of Texas | Wonder Dust! Amazing, old school, and has worked forever! |
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Location: Sperry, OK | Just go to your vet and buy some Panalog cream.. put a thin layer on and put under bandage. Simple as that!
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| PaintedE - 2014-05-13 9:05 AM
I had a horse with a bad cut on his front leg. We were having issues with proud flesh and an old race trainer gave us a recommendation which worked.
Take white sugar and rub it in the wound just until it starts to bleed 1-2x per day.
It sounds barbaric, but we had great results on several horses.
That's what I've always done. It works wonders. |
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Location: Okla | I've used Underwoods, for years. Won't use anything else. |
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Location: Texas | We have had great success with proudsoff. Our vet doesn't want us to over hydo as that will increase proud flesh. Just use enough water to clean it and get good edges. |
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Location: Kansas | Someone on this board gave me a recipe for healing a wound that involved sauerkraut. I used it on my husband's heel horse that had gotten caught in some downed electric fence wire. It was a horrible wound and healed completely. I think it was as simple as packing the sauerkraut on the wound and wrapping it. Very messy but worked like a charm.
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Location: Stephenville, TX | I use sugar and iodine mixture. I personallyt think it works better than granulex or vetalog or silvadine. I hose it until I can peel the crusty stuff off and then rub the sugar in there until it bleeds. They don't mind it because it doesn't have nerves. I strt out doing it every day then go to every other day depending on how it is looking. The flies won't bother it for some reason even when you use straight sugar. I work for a polo team and the Argentines use organic honey on proud flesh. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | jewishprincess - 2014-05-13 11:12 AM
Wonder Dust! Amazing, old school, and has worked forever!
Our vet still recommends Wonder Dust. It's great stuff for any wound. Nitrafurizone( not sure on spelling) also works. I use it or Vetracyn for minor stuff. |
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| Pickling lime just hose the crust off every day and dust the lime every day. Easy and cheap. |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | Sounds crazy but when my mare cut her chest open I scratched it inside 1x a day. Lightly and just enough to make it bleed. I also hosed it 2x a day and washed it out with diluted iodine then put wonder dust on. I was told at least 6 months of healing. She was cleared to start getting her back in shape in 2 months.
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Location: Down South | Thanks everyone for the responses. In addition to dealing with the cut, my mom passed last week also. I can't say that it's been a hard few weeks for us, I can say it's been a hard Year so for in 2014. The responses have give me enough info to process and decide what to do for my boy.  |
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| miss turbo - 2014-05-14 8:38 AM
Thanks everyone for the responses. In addition to dealing with the cut, my mom passed last week also. I can't say that it's been a hard few weeks for us, I can say it's been a hard Year so for in 2014. The responses have give me enough info to process and decide what to do for my boy.
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I hope only good things for the rest of your 2014!  |
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Location: Never in one place long | Proudsoff and THEN Underwoods with baking soda. they work GREAT! I fought and fought to try and heal a large gash for weeks and a friend suggested doing this and it works and neither are very expensive!! I keep both on hand! |
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Location: Georgia | Anyone know anything you can do for the knot that is left when proud flesh finally heals?
My mare had a cut on her fetlock that I was doctoring and it was healing nicely. We went out of town for 6 days and left my sister-in-law doctoring/feeding while we were gone, When I got back, it had apparently turned into proud flesh and she didn't know anything about that and just doctored it every day like she was told. If I had known, we could have changed the routine to treat for proud flesh. Anyway, it got ahead of us and should have been treated differently while we were away but wasn't. She has a good size lump where the cut was. It doesn't appear to cause her any pain, but I just hate that!!!
I don't suppose there's anything to be done about the lump??
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Location: the high desert | A vet told a friend of mine to use cortisone cream when her geldings cut started getting proud flesh. It was amazing how quickly it took the proud flesh away. |
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| preparation H local freds or drug store. |
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| Pickling lime. Just hose off old crust and dust with this stuff. Easy as can be works well, horses dont mind. |
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Location: North MS | The underwoods treatment actually caused the exterior to heal over before the interior with mine. Trapped infection inside. 1st injury May 2013 and it healed over mostly by July. Re-erupted in December before Christmas.
My second go round I couldn't take off for a special vet trip plus it happened right on top of christmas and the local vets vacations. So I made this extremely high tech, top secret ointment. 1 tube preparation H, 1 tube antibiotic ointment, and meat tenderizer. Then even more high techly blended using..... a hairdryer. I probably could have used microwave or stove top, but that was the tool I had at the time. I did make it to the vet the week after christmas and the vet said to keep on doing what I was doing. I ended up having x-rays taken of his gaskin to check for a bone chip. Thankfully there wasn't one, but that is how we found out it was only an infection issue. |
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