First aid - how do you treat yours?

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So I've noticed that people seem to use a variety of lotions and potions to treat minor wounds. What does everyone have in their first aid kit (the day to day one not the massive trunk of stuff that's mainly out of date or has never been used but you keep 'Just incase')?

Horse come's in with a cut on leg, chest, head etc (mainly head for my girl, she seems to bang it on everything!) and it's not so deep or sore that a vet is required, at least not in the first instance. What do you do?

I have cotton wool in my grooming box (sadly I need it that often!) I usually hose gentley if she's in the right mood or use the cotton wool to douse and dab the wound. I then let it dry, put camrosa on to keep dirt out and leave it. Apply camrosa the next day if required and just generally keep an eye on it for heat/swelling.

I have never owned purple spray, wound powder, hibiscrub (is it not meant for surgeons to cleans their arms with or am I confused...again!) or sudocream.

I do use yellow fly cream on my girls girly bit in the summer, she's had 3 foals and her udders tend to fill a little and the flies just love it. But I've nevr used it on wounds since getting the camrosa.

I have also used Alomysen (sp?) the turquoise spray that vets prescribe for sheeps feet and horse's wounds apparently
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but the Arab doesn't 'do' aerosols so that's in the trunk going out of date slowly.

Cookie for getting this far and if you didn't I'm sure you got the jist from the title
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I would clean the wound with warm water and hibiscrub leaving it on for about 3 mins (as this is the only way the antibacterial/disinfectant properties work).

I would then was this off with warm water.

Then cold hose if necessary.

Dry the leg and use sudocream SPARINGLY on the area as not to mask the wound and damage the healthy skin bed.

Hibiscrub is a very goot disinfectant, surgeons use it.. as do any patients admitted into a short stay word and patients with MRSA on them actually bath in it.

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Luckily my mare has yet to come in with any type of wound.
If she did though, it'd be hosed off and Aluspray applied.

I had Aluspray prescribed for my other horse who separated his hoof capsule from his coronet band and it couldn't be stitched.
I figure if the spray is good enough for that, it'll be good enough for "normal" cuts.

Anything that is near joint, or is pumping out blood gets the vet to it asap.
 

I don't use hibi scrub except for skin conditions.

Wound powder is IMO from the dark ages
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For the injury you describe I would flush it out thoroughly with water & antiseptic wipe things & then apply hydrogel.

If the wound was very superficial I would use sudocrem.
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So Hibiscrub is just a wash then you would apply something else? I'm not sure about sudocream, what does it do? I've seen people use it on mud fever and I know it's meant for nappy rash but how can that help an open wound?
 
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I don't use hibi scrub except for skin conditions.


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I've got camrosa shampoo for that now
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previously I used a shampoo the vet gave me, again it would probably have been out of date!

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Wound powder is IMO from the dark ages
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Totally agree but there are people at my livery yard that still use it.
 
Sudocrem is kind of a one size fits all type of disinfectant.
For mud fever it also acts as a barrier type cream.

It certainly does no harm & is probably a useful thing to have in your kit.
 
Well...I'm a nurse...so I have a fair amount of stuff courtesy of the NHS
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I have sterile water in an aerosol to clean wounds, sterile gauze to clean also. After I clean I spray with the turquoise Engemycin spray the vet gave me ( well, I paid for it but you know what I mean). I also have a large tube of Dermoline cream which comes in handy for scrapes/grazes and as a barrier cream.

I also have Hydrogel dressings, crepe bandages, gamgee...old-lady legulcer dressings (ok- Vetwrap by any other name but sadly in old-lady beige) iodine spray, blue superglue that I used to stick kids back together with in A/E.....be prepared...thats my motto
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My first aid kit is full to bursting with all sorts of lotions and potions as since i have owned him (4yrs) horsey seems to have had every aliment under the sun .... but only once.

For example yesterday he came in with a weird lumpy rash on his chest and shoulders. Looked like an allergic reaction
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A night in the stable and a entire packet of piriton later and he is fine. (My first aid kit has never contained piriton before ... now it contains 4 packs)

Previous incident to this was a foot abccess - so first aid kit contains half a pack of nappies, farriers putty, 1/2 bottle of acid, a syringe + duck tape.

What else? I have vet wrap, wound cream, intrsite gel (normally used for bed sores i'm told but is excellent for helping cuts heal whilst keeping dirt out of them), hibi-scrub, cotton wool, wound powder & purple spray (never used either!), melonin dressings, vasaline .....
I can't think what else!

My home first aid kits contians plasters and paracetomol and cough syrup. Yes my horses are looked after better than I am
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I'm getting scared. I read a post from Mayflower yesterday (or was it the day before) and agreed 100% with what she said. I'm doing it again today and agreeing. I would treat exactly as Mayflower would.

(Honestly we are not the same person, and I've never met Mayflower - but you know what they say about great minds thinking alike....!)

With the exception of the out of date stuff, my first aid kit consists of:

Gaffa tape.
More gaffa tape.
Nappies.
Sudocrem.
Gold label Wonder Gel (marvellous stuff).
Hydrogel
Cotton wool
Sponges (many!)
Vet wrap
Hibiscrub (rarely used as I find it has too much of a drying out effect on skin).

One of my Arabs came in last night with a small overreach (wil teach me not to leave him so long between trimmings). Wound cleaned thoroughly with clean water and hydrogel applied liberally over wound. No bandaging, horse turned back out (as sound and no swelling). Will repeat same again tonight.

Sudocrem - fantastic for mudfever and sunburn.
 

vet wrap
cotton wool
poultice pads
clay poultice
AB poultice boot
Epson Salts
hibi scrub
disinfectant
Flamozine cream
Fungal wash
Mark Todd Wound spray
Bute
Needles/syringes/scissors etc
surgical sprit
wetwipes
hand towel
Gold Lable wound gel
Various dressings
Few herbal things
Leg Ice pack
Rubber gloves
Kitchen roll
Thermometer
Jug
Rubber puff power dispenser
First Aid Book

and god knows what else, that is only half of what I can think off
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I'm getting scared. I read a post from Mayflower yesterday (or was it the day before) and agreed 100% with what she said. I'm doing it again today and agreeing. I would treat exactly as Mayflower would.

(Honestly we are not the same person, and I've never met Mayflower - but you know what they say about great minds thinking alike....!)

With the exception of the out of date stuff, my first aid kit consists of:

Gaffa tape.
More gaffa tape.
Nappies.
Sudocrem.
Gold label Wonder Gel (marvellous stuff).
Hydrogel
Cotton wool
Sponges (many!)
Vet wrap
Hibiscrub (rarely used as I find it has too much of a drying out effect on skin).

One of my Arabs came in last night with a small overreach (wil teach me not to leave him so long between trimmings). Wound cleaned thoroughly with clean water and hydrogel applied liberally over wound. No bandaging, horse turned back out (as sound and no swelling). Will repeat same again tonight.

Sudocrem - fantastic for mudfever and sunburn.

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PMSL - great minds indeed.
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I would never use cotton wool on a wound, it leaves fibres in the wound bed, and therefore acts as a foreign body and delays the healing process. I would cleanse with tap water, warmed, apply a hydrogel, and cover if necessary with a foam dressing.

For deeper wounds which would need attention from a vet I would cover, and not apply and creams lotions and potions as this would compromise any suturing that could be required.

I also keep NA dressings handy to help "flatten " proud tissue, and it really works.

Wounds heal best in a warm moist environment as it alllows migration of the epithilial cells.
 
If it's a nice clean wound and not dripping with blood then just leave it totally and keep an eye on it, it will dry and heal in no time, give their bodies/immune system a chance!
 
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