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Location: SW MO | My mare just cut the back of her heel bulb, I have taken her to the vet and then we wrapped it with a diaper and duct taped it. She will be on stall rest for a few days and is on antibiotics. Is there anything else anyone recommends? wound powder? vetricyn? |
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| I wouldn't put anything on it that isn't recommended by your vet. Keeping it covered, clean and dry are the main things that need to be focused on while healing begins. There are certain products made to promote granulation tissue (proud flesh), and others that delay it. Depending on what your vet saw going on in that laceration, they may just want it kept free of any external creams, sprays, etc. for awhile, and they typically like to recheck the wound in a few weeks, especially if sutures need to be removed. |
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Location: Louisiana | I have had 3, yes THREE, horses try to cut off their heel...all from random freak accidents.
All healed up perfectly fine...they have scars, but I can handle that.
What I did was wrap exactly like you did, make sure they were up-to-date on tetanus, and give an antibiotic in case of infection.
Then I kept them stalled up so they couldn't get it full of mud.
For a topical, I use Underwoods "brown medicine" and baking powder. It gets gross and crusty looking, but it heals from the inside out.
The first horse we tried to use Vetrycin and it got nasty...it closed up on the outside first and ended up taking a lot longer to heal up.
If the cut is above ground level, after a day or so you can unwrap it...I kept them wrapped long enough to make sure they weren't going to bleed too much.
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | dashnlotti - 2018-03-01 10:12 AM I have had 3, yes THREE, horses try to cut off their heel...all from random freak accidents. All healed up perfectly fine...they have scars, but I can handle that. What I did was wrap exactly like you did, make sure they were up-to-date on tetanus, and give an antibiotic in case of infection. Then I kept them stalled up so they couldn't get it full of mud. For a topical, I use Underwoods "brown medicine" and baking powder. It gets gross and crusty looking, but it heals from the inside out. The first horse we tried to use Vetrycin and it got nasty...it closed up on the outside first and ended up taking a lot longer to heal up. If the cut is above ground level, after a day or so you can unwrap it...I kept them wrapped long enough to make sure they weren't going to bleed too much.
I also recommend Underwoods and baking powder. Best stuff going! |
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| Biozide and wrap...... It that area i've had trouble with the underwoods making it rough, tough, and still puffy even after healing.
Biozide takes much longer to heal than underwoods but it much cleaner and pretty much unnoticeable once healed |
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Location: SW MO | Thanks all. She was pretty fresh today and the bleeding had stopped. I will ask my vet about underwoods... I was thinking it could be an option, but she was way better than expected today so I don't think I will need it. |
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Location: TN | I’ve had good experiences with Vetricyn and keeping it bandaged. It does best if I reapply the Vetricyn and wrap it 2x a day. We had a stud rip a big spot open on the front of his hind cannon bone a year ago and that worked well. It took a good month to heal but you can hardly tell it was there. I’m actually doctoring a different horse like that right now for a wound on his knee. They’re accident prone lol. |
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Location: North Dakota | When Red has one of his injuries, found out he seemed to have an allergic reaction to Underwood’s..... that was my first experience trying it so I haven’t been too keen on trying it again.
I agree to keep it weapped and clean. Once granulation tissue fills in, less is more (as far as messing with cleaning it). Extra stimulation of the tissue will promote more tissue and less to proud flesh. On that note, plain hydrocortisone cream helps knock it back but ProudsOff really takes care of it good if you have more.
Ive has good success with using silver sulfadiazine on wounds, especially when bandaging. Then eventually switching over to Aloe Heal while it finishes the rest of the way. |
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| Keep in mind ... keeping it wrapped is a great place to create a bacterial
infection in the dark moist area of the wrap.
As you see the pink granulated flesh appear start using caustic power and
water spray on it to promote blood flow and keep the wound open to
heal from the INSIDE and control the granulated flesh from becoming
proud flesh that will turn into a gristle if you let the skin/hair grow
closed too soon. NO BANDAGE!!
Granulated flesh is unique to horses and is meant to keep open to the
air for healing. While controlling per the above.
Giving her freedom in a dry area to walk around to pump blood thru
that hoof is a must to assist the healing with NO BANDAGE ON IT...
The frog is the heart for your horses feet to push blood back up
the leg.
GOOD LUCK ..
Edited by BARRELHORSE USA 2018-03-06 5:41 PM
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| BARRELHORSE USA - 2018-03-06 4:28 AM
Keep in mind ... keeping it wrapped is a great place to create a bacterial
infection in the dark moist area of the wrap.
As you see the pink granulated flesh appear start using caustic power and
water spray on it to promote blood flow and keep the wound open to
heal from the outside and control the granulated flesh from becoming
proud flesh that will turn into a gristle if you let the skin/hair grow
closed too soon. NO BANDAGE!!
Granulated flesh is unique to horses and is meant to keep open to the
air for healing. While controlling per the above.
Giving her freedom in a dry area to walk around to pump blood thru
that hoof is a must to assist the healing with NO BANDAGE ON IT...
The frog is the heart for your horses feet to push blood back up
the leg.
GOOD LUCK ..
Would you put caustic powder in your eye? If you wouldn't, then I sure wouldn't put it on a healing wound.
Secondly, you want the wound to heal from the inside out, meaning you want healthy granulation tissue forming from the base of the wound outwards. Pressure keeps the granulation tissue (which is absolutely not unique to horses) from getting out of control, and turning into proud flesh, thus a bandage is a good idea until the wound has filled in, then once the wound is filled in to the hairline with healthy tissue, the bandage should be removed to let it breathe, as oxygen helps stop proud flesh.
Not changing a soiled bandage and letting the wound close from the outside in is what harbors bacteria and can create a bigger problem that takes longer to heal.
Edited by madredepeanut 2018-03-06 8:16 AM
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | I am currently treating 2 horses for wound care. My TB sliced half his hip open and it will heal about the same time as our mare who has a moderate leg wound. I hate lower leg wounds.
Some of my friends have had very good luck with PF Wonder Salve. It works well on battling proud flesh and from the pictures, I saw, good healing results.
My vet though has turned me onto Aquacell Ag. They are "human" medicated pads and I have had WONDERFUL results using them. You can get them on Ebay or Amazon. I used them about 8 years ago on a BAD leg wound and using them now. The vet was at my place on Saturday and VERY happy with how the leg looked. No issues with proud flesh and it is healing at twice the rate than she expected. Our mare is difficult to doctor also, so they are nice because, we just hose the leg, let it dry then stick the pad to the tape and re-wrap. |
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| https://www.heartlandvetsupply.com/p-4329-aluspray-aerosol.aspx?gcli...
This stuff is amazing! My filly ran through a barb wire fence and cut up her shoulder pretty bad. Had vet come out and suture it. She ripped them out in 2 days. Sprayed this stuff on it daily and there isn't even a scar now. |
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Location: my piece of paradise | I have used THE nutrawound and nitroxide together for 30 days along with the Aluminum Spray. That stuff is awesome and is great to spray on and leave area unwrapped.
Bevs magic salve is also a keeper in my kit. |
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