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chico7

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I have some camrosa, and have used it for mud fever/midges etc...
I've seen it helps proud flesh/ wounds.... My little filly has had a couple of nasty cuts which are now getting to the stage where the skin needs to heal over, I'm using black powder because it needs to dry out and the silver spray comes off easily when stabled as she's on shavings and they get into it! Thinking about using camrosa, can you apply onto bare flesh?! Thanks, don't want anymore proud flesh, as it's on her white leg.
 
Equaide is amazing for proud flesh instead of the camrosa! I read some horrible stories about the camrosa too. Its about £30 for a little pot but lasts ages and shrank my boys proud flesh back to normal in one day :D
 
Camrosa contains heavy metals, which the manufacturers tried to deny some years back and were taken to court over it. To my mind, unless you're talking chemotherapy, heavy metals are only fit to clean the oven with and even then I'd wear thick rubber gloves. Todays thinking is not to use powder on wounds as this creates an artificially arid environment that the new skin cells, growing slowly, slowly out from the edges of the wound, cannot survive in. I'd get a decent gel or cream to cover the wound. Anything that is safe for babies with nappy rash will be safe enough and gentle enough to help the wound heal. Proud flesh may need help from the vet as I said before. White hairs WILL grow if the wound is deep enough to have damaged the hair follicles.
 
hi i`ve had differing results from camrosa from miraculous to no difference , think a lot depends on horses own healing properties . some horses heal well and others seem to succomb to very little grazes that become horrid wounds
 
I wouldn't touch camrosa with a barge pole either - used it once and several of my horses were allergic to it, I would have been better off buying a jar of pink ooze from a tack shop for a fraction of the price - it's snake oil!!!!
I agree though with using powder on wounds - not great really - wounds need to be kept supple, moist and clean for new skin to grow really well, honey is very good and provides just the right environment - it's been used for centuries and still is in hospitals for wound dressings. For really nasty wounds I'd use Intrasite gel and good dressings changed at least every other day, clean with either salt water or mild iodine solution just to get rid of any grot then re-apply chosen goop and bandage!!
 
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