Cellulitis

[hotdog]

Has anyone had any experience of Cellulitis? How long did it last? how long before you started riding again? Anything you did you make it go away faster?

 

[hellybelly6]

I had it in my hand following a cat bite from a feral cat I was helping - he was in pain.

I was in hospital for 2 days on an antibiotic drip.

I was advised to keep the hand elevated and to move my fingers. Eventually, pus came out of the bite wounds which I found juicy!

I was riding in less than a week.

I was lucky though, I work in a hospital, knew what I had and one of my bosses caught it very early the following day.

Its painful!

 

[hotdog]

Ah I can see how my post wasnt' that specific but I was actually asking about it in horses!

 

[Nudibranch]

I had it in Egypt, combined with a busted ligament. My leg went huge and there were horrible red streaks all the way up to the knee - when I got home my medic mates said the pics were like something out of a textbook! I had a week in the hospital over there, also on a drip and my leg in plaster on one of those hoist things to keep it elevated. I had to take maybe 20 different tablets as well, every hour or so all through the night - being abroad I never actually found out what most of them were. They said had I left it another 24 hours we'd have been looking at septicaemia. It took 3 different hospitals to get an antibiotic that worked. I still have problems with my leg nearly 3 years on, but that's probably more to do with the ligaments than the cellulitis.

Anyway that's all very dramatic - I think if you catch it early, and get UK treatment, it's a lot less serious!

Ironically it was caused by a riding accident, and I don't think I'll be doing much more than happy hacking any more, but again that's probably more ligaments than anything else.

Where do you have it? Hope it clears up soon!

 

[hotdog]

It's my horse that has it!

but is certainly doesn't sound very nice!

 

[carthorse]

My horse gets it sometimes and needs quite a lot of antibiotics to get over it, bran mash with some epsom salts can help as well but antibiotics should clear it even if you have to try different types , as we did last time

 

[Nudibranch]

Ha ha how stupid am I! This is the veterinary section after all...
as far as I know, antibiotics are the only thing that will clear it but maybe you could try a supplement to boost the immune system, might speed recovery along.

 

[hotdog]

It came up on Saturday morning /maybe during the night and I got the vet out sat lunchtime and gave him strong antibiotics. he's on a 5 day course of powdered antiboitics which finish tomorrow morning. Yesterday his hind leg was down a lot and I hacked him out gently and he was fine. I was wondering whether to do a bit more with him today to help with his circulation and reduce the swelling and speed up recovery.

 

[ElvisandTilly]

My gelding got cellulitis around his knee after receiving a kick to it. It was very large like an elephants leg

and he had 5 days of antibiotics and bute and it did take nearly 3 weeks to go down and he had localised swelling for over a month around the area of the kick. The vet said it was an infection which was in the tissue surrounding the area of the kick.

I started riding after 3 weeks but he was out 24/7 so could keep the leg moving. Wasn't much else I could do to speed recovery up.

Hope he gets better soon.

 

[cazza]

speak to Super_Kat she had a horse that has had it.