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Location: Kansas | I have a mare that has scraped up the inside of her hock (not sure how) and it has some swelling. I have ran cold water over it, iced it, clay poulticed it and used pht hock boots. It isn't terrible and the soreness is going away however there is still some swelling and heat. I have had great success sweating out lower leg swelling using an Epsom salt poultice and seran wrap. However I have never sweat a hock - anyone have any experience doing this to a hock? TIA! |
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Location: North Dakota | yes, however, ours had a puncture so vet mixed up gentamicin, dmso and furazone sweat was on for 12 hours, worked great! |
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Location: Kansas | LMS - 2015-07-31 8:49 AM
yes, however, ours had a puncture so vet mixed up gentamicin, dmso and furazone sweat was on for 12 hours, worked great!
I have dmso and furozone but honestly I am afraid of using them - the empsom salt mixture I dont have to worry as much with blistering. I guess I am questioning seran wrap around the hock, I would only leave it on overnight. |
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Location: North Dakota | If you're worried don't do it...maybe you can find some bot or magnetic hock boots you can use..... |
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Location: Kansas | LMS - 2015-07-31 9:17 AM
If you're worried don't do it...maybe you can find some bot or magnetic hock boots you can use.....
I have already tried my pht boots. I think I will just call the vet and ask lol |
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Location: Beggs, OK | There's a chance that the scrape has caused an infection. Ask your vet about possibly putting her on antibiotics. I am on the backside of a random crazy leg infection on my daughter's little bay mare that stemmed from a 1/2" nick in the back of her coronet band.... |
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Location: Kansas | rachellyn80 - 2015-07-31 10:51 AM
There's a chance that the scrape has caused an infection. Ask your vet about possibly putting her on antibiotics. I am on the backside of a random crazy leg infection on my daughter's little bay mare that stemmed from a 1/2" nick in the back of her coronet band....
Oh Yuck! How long did it take for the infection to set it? |
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Location: Beggs, OK | kscanchsnglaziergal - 2015-07-31 11:39 AM rachellyn80 - 2015-07-31 10:51 AM There's a chance that the scrape has caused an infection. Ask your vet about possibly putting her on antibiotics. I am on the backside of a random crazy leg infection on my daughter's little bay mare that stemmed from a 1/2" nick in the back of her coronet band.... Oh Yuck! How long did it take for the infection to set it?
It was just a real weird deal all the way around. She came in on a Tuesday morning with the swelling in her leg and a nick in that coronet band. I hosed, wrapped, bute, etc...by Friday morning I took her to Oakridge to have the leg ultrasounded and x-rayed just so that I would know that it wasn't something worse. All was clear and it just showed swelling outside of the tendon sheath. Dr. B said to keep doing what I was doing and put her on Tucoprim as well just in case. By Sunday evening the leg had swollen even more and had heat in it.... I had been using a compression wrap on it and was getting a lot of rebound swelling when I would take it off to hose her so I called Dr. B and we agreed that I should change to a quilted wrap and see if it settled down some. No luck and I could tell that by Monday evening the skin on the front and the back of the leg were going to slough from all of the swelling...Took her back in and she was put on Gentomicin and Penicillin to get the infection under control. Seven days on IM antibiotics and it was cleared, but then I have been having to deal with the wounds from the skin sloughing off. About a week ago one of the swollen places that never would come all the way down blew out! Something in there finally worked it's way to the surface and now it's really healing and looking better....
****, but horses can turn something so minor into a life or death situation. Seriously...a tiny nick in her coronet that didn't even bleed. I have pictures of all of it, lol The short answer is: The infection showed up as heat in the leg about 6 days after the initial injury. |
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Location: Kansas | rachellyn80 - 2015-07-31 12:25 PM
kscanchsnglaziergal - 2015-07-31 11:39 AM rachellyn80 - 2015-07-31 10:51 AM There's a chance that the scrape has caused an infection. Ask your vet about possibly putting her on antibiotics. I am on the backside of a random crazy leg infection on my daughter's little bay mare that stemmed from a 1/2" nick in the back of her coronet band.... Oh Yuck! How long did it take for the infection to set it?
****, but horses can turn something so minor into a life or death situation. Seriously...a tiny nick in her coronet that didn't even bleed. I have pictures of all of it, lol The short answer is: The infection showed up as heat in the leg about 6 days after the initial injury.
My regular vet is out until next week so I am waiting for the other vet to call me btw her appts... I will have to ask about some antibiotics.
That sounds like a nightmare and I certainly hope that is not my case. I can't for the life of me figure out what she even did.
Glad that your horse is finally healing though! Was she lame at all on it? |
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Location: Beggs, OK | That was the craziest part. She was sore, but not technically lame, never had fever. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | We just got done messing with an eight year old gelding who ended up with a massive hock infection because of a simple injury. You've got less than 72 hours before a hock infection will have destroyed a good bit of the cartilage in your joint and you only have a pasture ornament. I'd be getting her to a vet. By the time we caught it with my boy they only gave him a 50% chance to live. He did live but is unrideable for the rest of his life. Any horse I have that so much as scrapes their hock or has swelling will have a date with the vet and be going on antibiotics. There is too much to lose. |
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Location: In my own world | my vets do the furacone? dmso sweat without plastic wrap. Just smear on wrap with cotton and vet wrap |
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Sweating a hock?? any experience