Cheap human alternatives to animalintex?

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Any suggestions for human products I could use under a cohesive bandage for a wound?

I don’t need to give any more of my money to the vets on expensive horse products!
 
I use Melolin for wounds which need bandaging. Just get them off eBay along with soffban. I also have managed to pick up thanks to eBay this stuff as well. Will go on then the Melolin.
 

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I know you're just looking for padding (in which case, nappy), but for poultices, people here (Austria) use sauerkraut! I'm not making this up; this happened: I got asked to change a poultice, and found my Animalintex, but there was sauerkraut already open, so I had to finish that off! I see the reasoning, and it makes as much sense as bread poultices (or indeed Weetabix), but OMG, Animalintex is so much easier!
 
Animalintex is basically boracic lint dressing. (aka cockney rhyming slang for 'skint')

If you google there are alternatives online from such as Superdrug (who according to Google have a 39cm x 39cm sheet for £1.69 - cheaper than the branded horse product.

(similarly Optrex is also a solution of boric acid - I used to mix my own up for horse 'fly eye' using a level teaspoon of boric acid powder in a pint of water)

It can be very informative to look at the actual ingredients lists on over the counter medical stuff. e.g. I never bought expensive Lem-sip stuff - if you look at the ingredients it's basically vit. C, caffeine and paracetamol. Much cheaper to buy the raw ingredients!
 
Vodkagirly said:
Sanitary towel, the cheap thick ones
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How do you use these? I've been looking at one and i just cant fathom how to a) cut it to shape and b) when i stick it on his hoof will the sticky side not make the vet wrap stick to it aswell? Unlike the lintex ones that don't stick to the vet wrap.
 
Tamsin84 said:
How do you use these? I've been looking at one and i just cant fathom how to a) cut it to shape and b) when i stick it on his hoof will the sticky side not make the vet wrap stick to it aswell? Unlike the lintex ones that don't stick to the vet wrap.
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If it is for abcesses, then I just use a nappy. Buy the size that will fit your horses foot. place foot into the absorbant part of nappy, do up sticky tabs and duct tape over.


If your gelding is on box rest and has a swollen sheath from standing in, please do not go to the local shop and buy babies nappies, duct tape and KY jelly at the same time - they look horriffied and it dosen't make it better when you explain it's for your horse!!!
 
fredflop said:
Any suggestions for human products I could use under a cohesive bandage for a wound?

I don’t need to give any more of my money to the vets on expensive horse products!
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Why on earth would you buy Animalintex/cotton wool or gamgee from your vet? Every horse store keeps it. Every online equine retailer sells it. By the way you can use honey - yes expensive manuka honey is always recommended but any honey works well. Put it straight onto the wound and use as poultice or as a healing ointment.

All the vet bashing - who else is available on call 24/7 for emergencies? Certainly not your GP! Yes you will pay but your vet has spent 5 = years qualifying and if they have their own practise they will have invested hundreds of thousands of pound in equipment.

No I am not a vet but my vets saved my horses life last week after a horrific accident and I cannot thank them enough for dropping everything, leaving all other calls and sorting other vets to cover them, and spending hours with us along with the wonderful fire brigade animal rescue service. Thanks to them I still have a horse. Yes I will pay for the service but I was utterly thankful that they were all at the end of the phone.
 
sport horse said:
Why on earth would you buy Animalintex/cotton wool or gamgee from your vet? Every horse store keeps it. Every online equine retailer sells it. By the way you can use honey - yes expensive manuka honey is always recommended but any honey works well. Put it straight onto the wound and use as poultice or as a healing ointment.

All the vet bashing - who else is available on call 24/7 for emergencies? Certainly not your GP! Yes you will pay but your vet has spent 5 = years qualifying and if they have their own practise they will have invested hundreds of thousands of pound in equipment.

No I am not a vet but my vets saved my horses life last week after a horrific accident and I cannot thank them enough for dropping everything, leaving all other calls and sorting other vets to cover them, and spending hours with us along with the wonderful fire brigade animal rescue service. Thanks to them I still have a horse. Yes I will pay for the service but I was utterly thankful that they were all at the end of the phone.
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How rude.
Clearly one of the forums “holier than thou” posters.
 
fredflop said:
How rude.
Clearly one of the forums “holier than thou” posters.
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I am not sure how my reply can be contrued as rude. I think the OP bashing at vets was the one that was rude. I gave a good suggestion of using honey to make your own dressings more cheaply. Animalintex/gamgee/cotton wool etc are not prescription drugs so do not need to be bought from a vet so there was no need to vet bash.
 
I buy online and use the minimum I can on each poultice , replacing it before I run out so its always ready just in case . The same applies to cotton wool rolls and the vetwrap bandages.
 
I'd never use nappies under a bandage as they swell when wet. Honestly, animalintex is good value if you nuy online and cut it to the size you need.
 
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