anyone ever use DMSO

[SKY]

i have a horse and the back of his front cannon bone, he has a swelling on back and inside of it, so vet give me granules to give 2 twice aday for 2 days then 1 twice a day for 3 days and then 1 for few days then finish. well i was hosing leg twice aday for half an hour as well. finished granules, but still has some swelling, it is now 10days and still swelled, has went down abit but not all.
so vet said stop hosing as after 10days and not gone it wont go now, he said only option is DMSO to brush on once aday for a week and then horse will be irrated so stop for few days then apply again once aday for another 7 days.
he said it is used at all race yards. no quarentees if swelling will go but worth a try. i have to wear gloves and brush it on.
what do you think of it and have you ever used it, or anything else you would do. think i will try it and get it of vet 2morrow. dont like that the horses will get irrated and sore with it after few days vet said he mighten let me put it on him as they get abit moody with it, as its abit like pins and neddles for horses a numbess feeling and can burn my skin if it gets on it vet said. but how is this as i was reading online some people used this on themselves as well as there horse, for back pain ect.
also horse is not lame or sore, just swelled, must have been playing in field.

thanks for reading.

 

[Hedgewitch13]

I used DMSO many years ago for a tendon injury on my old pony. I massaged it in for however many days I had too, while wearing gloves, and never had any adverse reactions from my mare. It did the trick and there wasn't any swelling or lumpyness left in the tendon.

 

[Shysmum]

I used DMSO for a splint, but it made no difference. The only thing that did help was some magnetic wraps.

 

[0ldmare]

I also used DMSO on a splint years ago. Had to use gloves I remember but the horse didn't object. The splint ended up quite small, but it may have been small without it

 

[Jesstickle]

What would you be using with the DMSO?

I wasn't aware it had any magical properties of its own, I thought it was just a carrier for the therapeutic of choice?

Also, be careful which gloves you use as it dissolves nitrile gloves (standard lab gloves) pretty quickly and then lots of things in the environment can breach the skin barrier by being carried over with the DMSO.

 

[misterjinglejay]

I used it many years ago on a splint, and it got smaller very quickly (might have done that anyway!)

 

[lexiedhb]

erm are you talking about Dimethyl sulfoxide?

and then what Jess said!!!

 

[Jesstickle]

erm are you talking about Dimethyl sulfoxide?

and then what Jess said!!!

They do. They're scaring me!!!

Sorry everyone else, lab techie gimp out session going on.

 

[abbieandfiona]

Used it for 6mths on mares splint worked really well for her and she became sound on that leg again.

 

[westparc]

yes
a complete waste of money and as far as i am now aware there is no scientific proof that it works!
used on a tendon injury

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I've used it on a few fresh splints in the yard and to be honest, we only use it for 5 days to help the splint to settle down and not get any bigger. I use a cotton wool ball on the end of tweezers to deal with the stuff as I lost the gloves that came with it, well no, I personally didn't lose the gloves, whichever eejit did the horse on my day off lost the gloves! Having only used it for a short time each time, only on splints and the horses were rested for the 5 days it was used I couldn't tell you if it was the DMSO that settled it or if it was the rest or a combination of the both working together.

 

[SKY]

vet said it was a liquid but online it shows a gel. going to try it and get it 2morrow. dont know if it will work but suppose worth a try. vet said brush it on to area once a day for 7 days then give few days of and then repeat for another 7 days.
have never heard of this before, so not sure if any good. some people say it is good and some people say useless. its not cheap, so hope it helps. anymore info would be great. thanks to everyone that answered.

 

[flaxen]

yes, when I was an equine vet nurse we used it all the time.
It was very useful for reducing jugular haematomas after horses had had catheters in.
We also used to put it in drip bags along with calcium and potassium of horses that had had colic surgery and had dead gut taken out, it worked very well, although you could always tell as soon as you entered the barn that a surgical colic was in as you could smell it in the air.

 

[pollana]

I used it for a splint on my mare and after only 2 applications she had a huge reaction to it resulting in a really nasty blister on her hind leg. We could only clean it by spraying it with the hose pipe from out of the reach of her back legs because it was so sore! However once the blister cleared up the lump from the splint had gone too, so mixed feelings really. by the way she is a paper skinned warm-blood so probably an unusual reaction.