3weeks could turn into 6MONTHS?! -pics- [Warning- blood]

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My horse, Fee, recently had a panic attack in the trailer, she fell sideways and caught her front foot with her hind foot -
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As you can see it isn't a deep cut, she just cut a flap of skin off, but the vet told us to have her on box rest and to change the bandage every week. But in the past 2 weeks it has started growing this extra/proud flesh-
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[It isn't of my horse, but it is a good example of what it looks like]

So the vet has to keep cutting the extra flesh off [there are no nerve endings so she doesn't feel a thing, and if we don't it will heal with a big bump] and re-bandaging it, but it keeps doing it again, and my instructor said it could go on for 6 months [!!] But my mum/grandparents who are very horsey said you can apply copper sulphate [or something like that] and it sort of stops it producing extra flesh?

I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else's horses when a wound was healing before and what they did about it, and advice welcome, I just want her to get better :)

Thanks in advance! :D
 
try putting +10 manuka honey on it, the honey will slow down the rate of proud flesh. or you can mix copper sulphate granules with demobion to reduce the proud flesh.
 
I've always been advised by my vet to use a caustic silver nitrate pencil on any proud flesh (my horse is really prone to it) and it has always worked well. Did your vet not advise anything except bandaging?
 
We have been using the Manuka honey + bandaging but it is still happening :( we have used the copper sulphate on a horse before to get rid of a wart or something [I was too young to remember] so I might ask the vet about it tomorrow because she is coming to re-cut the proud flesh off :eek:
 
I find it strange the vet just keeps cutting it off and not advising you on slowing/stopping the regrowth.

My friends horse a few years ago cut her fetlock on a piece of pottery in the field, it was really bad, that kept growing proud flesh, the vet gave her something to put on but I can't remember what, she had to rub it on, it used to bleed, it worked in the end.

I'd speak to your vet to see what he/she recommends
 
My mare had this (a very extreme case - photos if you would like !) - it took over a year, but the wound was huge, tendon severed etc etc .. vet to bandage fairly tight after cutting it back and applying a cream that reduces the proud flesh (cant remember what its called, ask your vet, or i'll ask mine!) then when time for bandage to come off do it very very gradually, literally 5 mins a day for a couple of days then bandage back on (we used melanin dressing and stable bandage), and build it up in 5 min incriments for several weeks .. be warned though, it will probably need cutting back several times ..
 
Something similar happened to a mare that I knew. The growth turned out not to be proud flesh but a sarcoid the initial wound set off growing. The vet cutting it back made things worse and the skin graft the vet tried did not take. The mare had a foal at foot which did not help matters by standing and catching it every time it went to drink. The mare was put down on the foal being weaned as by then the sarcoid was huge, raw and causing the mare distress.

Hopefully yours IS only proud flesh.
 
Equi-Aid - fantastic stuff and completely natural, worked superbly on a nasty face wound that one of mine had, proud flesh was gone within a week or two and the scar shrunk to a tiny little nick and her hair almost covers it now.
 
Im pretty sure it is proud flesh, as my 5 year old brother said 'It looks like a red cauliflower is growing on her leg!! :eek: ' which my mum and I found pretty hilarious :)

It has been cut back about 3 or 4 times now, the last time they did it it didn't come back for about a week, but I changed the bandage 2 days ago and sure enough the 'cauliflower' was back :mad:
 
Boysy said:
Equi-Aid - fantastic stuff and completely natural, worked superbly on a nasty face wound that one of mine had, proud flesh was gone within a week or two and the scar shrunk to a tiny little nick and her hair almost covers it now.
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I'll look into that, don't suppose you have a link to a website for it or anything? :)
 
My vet cut some proud flesh off a knee wound and within a week it was all gone.... She said they don't use crystals any more as their toxic and not nice?

Hope it heals quick! don't panic! My mare wasn't even left with a scar.
 
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