Good set of cooling boots mainly to reduce swelling

[Jim bob]

My horse has recently been diagnosed , if you like with Lymphangitis. At present I have been advised by my vet to put stable bandages on when he's in but also when he is out. However due to him been one of the most accident prone horses I have ever met. For the moment I am waiting until I have a couple of days along with the time to keep an eye on him while having these bandages on in the field. My vet has also advised cold hosing, now due to a few issues on the yard. I cant cold hose for very long which has got me thinking about ice and cooling boots. I am looking at tem mainly to reduce the swelling. I don't want to fork out loads of money but enough to get a decent set of boots. Anyone got any suggestions?

 

[StoptheCavalry]

Hello

I have recently bought some premier equine cold water boots and am pretty happy with them. You couldn't leave them on all day though I think I read 2 hours at a time max. I bought them to avoid standing cold hosing for hours on end. They suggest also putting ice packs in with the water while they soak to make them extra cold although I didn't find this necessary.

At my old yard the yard owner used to wrap wine cooler ice packs (the flexible kind) into bandages and that worked really well then just change them over every few hours after they'd defrosted for a new frozen pack.

 

[Goldenstar]

I have owned many cooling boots over the years but I always come back to using bonner bandages .
They are very very effective last years and are not expensive verses other options .
I cool mine using very iced water .
We have a cool box for the yard and always keep bags of ice in the freezer we just put enough water to work on with in the box add a bag of ice and soak the bandages .
We also take them frozen to competitions .

 

[eggs]

Another vote for Bonner bandages. Whatever you do use though you will need to take off and rechill when they warm up which can be in as little as 15 minutes. Don't waste you money on leg gels \ clay etc as they won't actually cool the leg.

 

[Nicnac]

If you're feeling flush Horseware ice vibe boots are brilliant; if not cheap solution is to buy the ice cube making bags from the supermarket, fill, freeze, wrap in tea towel ensuring no creases, put round legs and bandage over the top. As you're not popping the ice cubes out they should last a couple of times at least.

You shouldn't ice legs for more than 20 minute at a time so I've been told.