Any advice on Vitamin E cream?

[myheartinahoofbeat]

My horse has had a growth lasered off his body on Monday. Fortunately it was not a tumour. Anyway my vet said it was ok to start putting a Vitamin E face cream on it in a few days time to help the skin grow back. I just nodded and then when I got home, I realised I wasn't sure which one he meant so I thought I'd ask you knowledgeable people before trying to get hold of him again. Would E45 or something like that do? I've looked up horsey vitamin E products and they all seem to be supplements and not creams, so he definitely meant a human product.

 

[ycbm]

You could use Bio Oil, or buy some vitamin E oil in capsules (or from someone who feeds it to their horse) and mix a bit of it into sudocrem. It works the same and is a lot cheaper. I got my OH to use it on his open heart surgery scar!

 

[paddy555]

I used bloodroot on a young horse with warts. Vet advised me to use aloe vera cream afterwards which worked well. I would look up Holland & Barrett and they will have vit E cream or the aloe vera that I used.

 

[myheartinahoofbeat]

Thanks for the advice you two, I'll have a look

 

[NOISYGIRL2]

Personally would check back with vet so you are 100% sure what you should use

 

[QueenT]

I'd check with vet, but I have an E + zinkoxide diaper rash cream in my stable all the time. One of my most used products for wounds

 

[doodle]

Be careful with bio oil. Robin reacts badly to it (as do I! And of course I had just bough a huge bottle)

 

[Birker2020]

Picture of internet of wart on dog - our dogs looks similar but smaller, without the black bit. She has one on her side and we've been using Vitamin E cream for a while before buying Vitamin E capsules from ebay, snipping off the end and squeezing onto the wart. She had previously had the wart checked by the vet under a microscope and it's deffo not cancerous. I used Vitamin E cream on a horse about 25 years ago when he had a cluster of small sarcoids and they fell off within a couple of weeks.