Poultice

galaxy

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Out of interest.....

How close would you poultice to a joint? Someone put a poultice on their horses hock last night and the wound was about 1 inch above the hock on the inside of the leg. I personally would have been very cautious about this because of the joint fluid and probably got the vet out for advise, but just wondered what your opinion would have been?
 

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I have poulticed joints before!

Never seems to hurt, but highly unlikely to keep everything in place.

I had a horse with and injury on the front of the back leg above the hock. Virtually impossible to keep anything on it and I had to gaffer tape and elastoplast it in the end!
 

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on the wound -- a poulice draws out infection -- thats what a poutice does so it has to be on the wound itself and a vet will tell you that

they normally use animalintex this can be done hot or cold
 
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