Human remedies on horses..

[S14Tobin]

Sorry if this has already been done, Im sneaking on at work, so didn't dare check to see! Just curious (after a bit of a scuffle with our local Chemist) who uses human 'stuff' on their horses? I often use vasaline, sudacrem, rescue remedy, anusol (yes, really but NOT for horsey piles!! - its a very effective anti-imflamatory cream which my vet recommended I use when he had a sheath infection!) and I'm sure a lot of other things... after an idle chat with my Chemist, she got quite heated and refused to sell me vasaline as it isn't licensed for animal use - quite true, but I'm hardly trying to get him to swallow a load of codeine - so - surious as to who else ses stuff - and what for?

 

[Lollii]

She wouldn't sell you vasaline!!!

I hope you just went and brought it somewhere else.

I wash my dogs & horses in Morrisons t-tree shampoo, use vasaline, baby oil, loads of Sudo Cream on every type of scratch, cut & mud fever - it's brill!

 

[The_snoopster]

i use loads of human remedies same kind of stuff as you, its cheaper than the horse products. My local chemist orders bulk size pots in for me which is even cheaper !. Was a bit embarrassed when i asked for a particular liquid that my vet had recomended when i read the label it was for lice and crabs and i had asked for a largest bottle she had , wondered why she backed away from me !!!!

 

[dieseldog]

Is it wrong that I have been using my horses mud fever cream on me - it is amazing at healing stuff

 

[Milly-Molly-Maisie]

I use Loratadine (claratin) anti-histamine for my horse in the summer, works a treat.

My vet actually suggested I tried it and said that there is no money to conduct clinical trials to enable it to become registered.

It is amazing how many people have developed hay fever in my family as far as my chemist is aware!

 

[Maggie2]

I read that someone on here was using Ibuprofen gel for bruise reduction, never thought of that but surely cheaper than Tensolvet?

 

[S14Tobin]

Yep, she refused to sell me vasaline and rescue remedy - so yep, went somewhere else!! Forgot to mention good old Udder Cream - its fab handcream for people!! I felt a bit of a twit buying 4 tubes of Anusol, don't think they believed me it wasn't for me pmsl! But it certainly worked very well! I often buy citronella, and mix it with vinegar and hot water - if you boil some elder leaves up and leave it a few hours then mix it with the vinegar and citronella, fab fly repellant, but good god it stinks! (on another note a few leafy twigs of elder stuck in your bridle are ace fly repellant for rides - just look stupid!
Always use human shampoo's etc too, and toothpaste is great to clean white bits! Mr Sheen on girth straps to help them do up easier, I could go on now I've got thinking!

 

[janet68]

Have use allergy tabs(people ones) for lumps and aftershave as a deterant to stop my other horse chewing tail

 

[Fox07]

It is against some law for chemists to sell products intended for humans on animals I think. I went to boots looking for some herbal remedy stuff but when I said it was for a horse they were very clear in saying it wasnt allowed, so I just keep schtum if they ask now, they must think I have a baby wiht a very big bum/ nappy rash problem with the amount of sudacream Iv had to buy!

 

[beaconhorse]

I also use Aloe vera juice from holland and barratt it it great for viruses or just when they seem a bit low. use the gel from there too

 

[Olliecp77]

brolen ointment for eyes and optrex - works great and much cheaper than vet meds for eye conditions and general eye cleaning - horses love the eye bathing and brolene. But yeah have to pretend someone has a bad eye infection and you know how to use it on them!!

 

[Weezy]

Yep I use human eye drops and cream - never say it is for a horse though as they won't let you have it! My son get's dreadful eye infections

Always have Benedryl in stock for coughs, usual Sudocrem for everything, Lilets are always in my first aid kit in case of large wounds, nappies for polticing...

 

[Fransurrey]

Brolene ointment, Chloramphenicol, sudocrem, vaseline, Neem powder (mixed into a paste), Neem oil (both the latter bought from an online Indian Food supplier!), piriton...
...have had to walk out of one chemist, up the street rubbing my eye frantically to get chloramphenicol before. Those were the days when Little B had chronic conjunctivitis, due to wind/dust/flies/whatever...nowadays online shopping is a must - so much easier!

I used Aromaheel mud fever stuff for Chloe's SI when it got bad and was absolutely gobsmacked (in a good way) with the results!

 

[S14Tobin]

Oh yes - just reminded me - Benylin for coughs... Guinness in feed sometimes, but that's not really a remedy! I found supermarkets don't question the marge amounts of sudacrem so get it from there - Sainsburys recently had a huge sale on everything so poor lad is caked in it!

 

[Faro]

Milton sterilising fluid as a foot disinfectant.

Another vote for Sudocrem and vaseline.

Aloe vera from the plant on my kitchen windowsill.

Optrex (or the Boots own brand equivalent - much cheaper).

Probably a load more, but can't think right now.

 

[Rueysmum]

Tesco Vitamin C 1 a day tablets for horse with ulcerated and displaced soft palette and persistently entrapped epiglottis.

Gave him 6 per day for about 6 months and he made a miraculous recovery. The whole thing took 9 months from diagnosis to recovery and he wasn't expected to make it.

 

[Dopeonarope]

sudocrem, baby oil, baby whipes, hydrocortisol (against bites), ... becloforte asthma inhaler (steroid works better than the vet's pills ... but the vet did actually prescribe it), ice gel (much milder than the horse version), and last but not least benzil benzoate ... although I do get the looks when buyin the big bottles & loads of them

 

[stroppymare153]

i've had a row with a local chemist over chloramphenicol - now boycotted! (for those that know about Barry, it wasn't for him!! and i had checked with vet first). Think they are a going a bit OTT with vaseline though!
They are only partly right anyway, it is only illegal if there isn't a suitable animal-licensed alternative - lots of eye meds are not licensed for animals. Anyway .....

BE CAREFUL THOUGH!!!! some very innocent remedies are FEI ILLEGAL eg sudocrem (there was a long thread on here a while ago about it) because it contains a tiny amount of local anaesthetic and they claim that it "soothes"

 

[Chico Mio]

I use loads of stuff - for the horses and the cats. My vet actually prescribed human anti-inflamatories when my cat had bladder stones and also recommended Vitamin C drops, echinacea and lycopodium for another cat.

The horse vet told me to get human eye drops for MoMs conjunctivits and we used Optrex type stuff to bathe it. Can't get Sudacreme here but you can get a cream that is similar in huge pots from the pharmacy which th vet actually uses himself! And another cream which is like Fuciderm (anti biotic) I have also injected my horse with five ampoules of a drug called Nolotil which is a human anti-spasmodic when he had a mild colic one winter (under vet orders)

 

[foo]

nappies ( poulticing)
Bach Flower Remedies
Sudacrem
Benyln ( coughs)
vaseline
Bitter Apples( to stop mane and tail chewing)
Andrews Liver salts( laminitic ponies)
human sunblock
Baby oil
Baby lavender wash

 

[Faithkat]

Like everyone elese : Sudocrem
Hypercal cream (brilliant for rapid healing and it contains a natural anaesthetic)
arnica for bruising
Optrex for a horse that got runny eyes from flies
Supermarket shampoo and conditioner (washing-up liquid first if tail is really manky)
and I make my own fly spray

 

[sally2008]

Liquid parafin to prevent mud-fever. Years ago I asked a pharmacist for two of the biggest bottles he'd got and heard sniggers in the queue behind me. It was only later I found out that it's used as a laxative!

 

[EllieK]

Its actually illegal for any pharmacy/ chemist to sell you anything for use on animals unless its licenced 'for animal use', its not just the staff being akward! And annoyingly enough even if your vet has told you to buy it, we can't sell it to you.
I'm in my final year of training as a Pharmacist and often have problems with this. Its really not our fault, just don't mention its for a horse or any other animal!!

x

 

[S14Tobin]

Oh gosh - yes, have NO qualm - she was doing her job correctly (although i thought the vasaline was a little OTT!!!) Just sparked the question who uses stuff!

 

[Hippona]

Vaseline, baby oil, shampoos on occasion......I use betadine spray, saline solution, fucidin cream, intrasite gel,sudocrem.....a variety of dressings bandages and the human equivalent of vetwrap but in a horrible 'old-lady beige(most of this 'liberated' from the stock cupboard at work

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...I have also bought green lipped mussell extract for H+B ( I didnt say it was for the 'oss) and devils claw capsules from the same place....

The list is endless.......

 

[EllieK]

Vasaline way over the top I do agree

I must admitt I tend to use the human version of most things as they are cheaper; sun block, plaiting stuff, nurofen gel, cooling gels, sudocrem, vasaline, baby oil, daktarin, cohesive bandages, the list is endless...

 

[Laafet]

Well our chemists must be really slack as I often got sent into town to buy 20 odd tubes of Daktarin - for Ringworm - and no one ever asked me questions. I also buy benzyl and hydrogen peroxide. Never had a problem and if I did I would got to one that did!

 

[pootler]

lilets!?

my mind is boggling as to how you use them, I would love a little more detail please! I use nappies for poulticing, sudacream, spray on savalon for cleaning wounds.

 

[Tharg]

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Lilets are always in my first aid kit in case of large wounds, nappies for polticing...

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I'll have to remember that one!