dermobion

[jennie1000]

Has anyone found this cream anywhere. Heard various stories about it being discontinued. My vet said I might be able to get it over from Ireland.

Does anyone have an old packet with an ingredients list so I can find an alternative?

 

[Goldenstar]

I think they still make it in small animal sized tubes.
It's not legal to bring in a made up dermobian type cream from Ireland.
My vet mixes up a paste that we use now instead don't think it's as good as the magic green ointment.

 

[Goldenstar]

I may have a tube I'll look later when I am on the yard.

 

[Laafet]

You can't get Dermobian from Ireland anymore, the only way we can get it in Newmarket is to get someone on a flight from America to bring it over. However my vets make up their own version for us.

 

[jennie1000]

Don't suppose either of you know what ingredients are in the mix your vet makes?

I don't know anyone in America.... That's a bugger. Feel a holiday coming on! Lol

Golden star: thanks for looking for me.

 

[Irishbabygirl]

How come they've stopped making it?

 

[jennie1000]

Some people say its because of a banned substance but my vet said it just needed a new licence die to a change in law but the company didn't want to pay to get it.

 

[rhino]

How come they've stopped making it?

IIRC it was due to the main ingredient, nitrofurazone, being withdrawn from the market as it was believed to be a carcinogen. It also contained prednisolone and neomycin which are still available The worry wasn't so much the horse's welfare as the possibility of the carcinogen reaching the food chain

 

[Irishbabygirl]

Interesting....thanks! Best throw out the several half used tubes floating around in the depths of my majorly out of date first aid kit then...!

 

[rhino]

Interesting....thanks! Best throw out the several half used tubes floating around in the depths of my majorly out of date first aid kit then...!

NO! Hang on to them - I eked out every last drop of mine as it was such good stuff

 

[JFTDWS]

IIRC it was due to the main ingredient, nitrofurazone, being withdrawn from the market as it was believed to be a carcinogen. It also contained prednisolone and neomycin which are still available The worry wasn't so much the horse's welfare as the possibility of the carcinogen reaching the food chain

Isn't that why we have passports? To stop things like that getting into the food chain?

Unless they think we rub it on wounds and lick it off?

I may still have a tube in my first aid kit I found some E45 cream that expired in 2003 in there. I didn't even know it could expire

 

[rhino]

Isn't that why we have passports? To stop things like that getting into the food chain?

Unless they think we rub it on wounds and lick it off?

I may still have a tube in my first aid kit I found some E45 cream that expired in 2003 in there. I didn't even know it could expire

Passports are a peculiarly British thing though, and I'm fairly sure it was an EU directive which led to the demise of dermobion. It was also in the transition period before passports were compulsory I think

 

[SKY]

just found this on the net,
http://www.totalfrance.com/france/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31830

 

[Irishbabygirl]

NO! Hang on to them - I eked out every last drop of mine as it was such good stuff

Good call! I love the stuff!

 

[JFTDWS]

Passports are a peculiarly British thing though, and I'm fairly sure it was an EU directive which led to the demise of dermobion. It was also in the transition period before passports were compulsory I think

I knew there was a reason I'm a Eurosceptic

 

[rhino]

just found this on the net,
http://www.totalfrance.com/france/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31830

It's a 5 year old thread and the links are no longer active

 

[tallyho!]

I don't care if mine is out of date.... Theres a squeeze left and it's worth more than gold!!!