minimise scarring and proud flesh after injury

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My section D filly had a fight with a fence 3 weeks ago, she suffered many cuts to her hind legs, 2 of which were right across her hocks and both were wide and deep.

I had the vet out and due to location he decided not to stitch as he felt they'd end up burst open causing further damage.

Well 3 weeks on I am now not worried as there is no longer a risk of infection to her joints and they've ceased reopening up, although the are far from fully healed.

I'm now thinking ahead to scarríng and the vet said on one of her legs I'm likely to get proud flesh protuding.
It's not the end of the world if she's left with scars and she most definitely will be, but I'd like to minimise best as possible because I would like to do a bit of showing and working hunter in the future.

Ideas? Thanks :D
 
Never used it myself but copper sulphate is supposed to be good for proud flesh and i swear by bio-oil for ensuring dark hair regrowth, when my old boy had muscle biopsies done I religiously bio oiled the wounds once closed up but well before hair regrowth and all hair came back black :)
 
When my boy tripped and fell on his knees on a hack after the inital checking of serious injury i got rather upset at the thought of then scarring or coming in white hair. I ended up phoning my vet and she prescribed me some cream which helped skin growth and hair colour. For the life of me i cant think what it was called but it came in a round tub and was silver like. I will rack my brains tomorrow but your vet may know of something.
 
Many years ago, my bay WelshDxTB mare cut her black leg open on a rusty gate. We could see right into all the structures but fortunately only the skin was damaged. The vet decided not to stitch. We had to was the wound twice a day for about 3 weeks. We changed fields and she was quite a distance from the yard, so we took water to the field in an old garlic supplement bucket. The water smelled of garlic for the whole 3 weeks and we were extremely pleased that no white hairs or proud flesh ever showed. By the next year we had to look very hard to find the site of the wound and after a few yrs, even we couldn't find it. Ever since we have used a VERY weak garlic solution to wash wounds.
 
A friend of mine had something called oily oily from Liverpool university when her mare cut her leg. Worked a treat.
 
There is a product that reduces scarring and proud flesh after an injury and I've used it a few times on my horse with great results http://www.equaide.com/horse_wound_care.htm

I would really recommend you use equaide, its quite expensive but gives great results, if you do a search on this forum and on google you will see that it is pretty good.
 
They use silicon bandages for human scarring these days... expensive-ish but available in Boots... recommended to me after a car accident.
 
My friend used Manuka Honey on a bad injury her pony sustained when he went through a plain wire fence. Made a remarkable recovery, no proud flesh and only slight thickening over fetlock joint. Pictures in my album 'Hind leg injury', sorry but can't work out how to post from there to here !! :o
 
Thanks for the reply's, lot of ideas to look into. I'm 10 days+ away from the scabs fully coming off so plenty of time to get what I decide to try first :)
 
Manuka honey is great for healing but won't stop the proud flesh.

IM(sadly rather extensive injury-related)E.....the only way to stop proud flesh is regular debridement (cutting it off - done by the vet) and pressure bandaging. You can get these especially for the hock shape, they are neoprene/silicone, very tight and usually zip up.

Our vet keeps them but if yours doesn't they will probably be able to tell u where to get them.

IME putting any amount of creams on without the pressure and debridement is useless when it comes to proud flesh forming.
As I say though, things like Manuka are good for healing, and the bio oil is definitely good for the hair regrowth....but for the proud flesh cutting and pressure is the only way.
 
Totally agree with Patterdale regarding the pressure bandaging to reduce production of proud flesh in first instance ! If you look at the photos in my album you can see the amount of wrapping we used initially - on top of wound dressing we had 2 rolls of soft wrap, 2 large rolls cotton wool type gamgee with another half roll folded over at top of bandaging, 2 elastic bandages(medical not tail type!), and finally 2 Vet Wrap !!! This was used for several weeks as we had to try to immobilize the leg as much as poss.
(The accident happened last November. The pony has just completed a 100 + mile ride, in aid of Breast Cancer, his 13yr old jockey raising almost £2,500, in memory of his mum.)
Manuka Honey was used to help the healing process once the wound was almost knit together, an amazing recovery from a horrendous injury. Good luck with yours. :)
 
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