Proud flesh from an injury

[Tierra]

Honey would certainly make sense as its very good for healing scars on human skin (if anyone suffers with scars or red marks left over from spots, you can use honey and whipped cream mixed together to create a face mask.)

Ive never used it on horses and with mine I would probably go on the side of caution and have a vet remove the granulation tissue... but I can certainly see the theory behind using honey.

 

[Gingernags]

These are the pics, green circled bit is a lump of skin that wasn't stitchable but couldn't cut off...

After about 3 weeks

another couple of weeks

Now totally healed and scar free!

 

[brightmount]

I promised to post back with my results from using Equaide, as recommended by Bess! Well I didn't think I would be posting back THIS early, but I have been using it for 3 days and the proud flesh has shrunk back by around 5mm and is almost level now with the surrounding skin!!!!!

I don't know if it would have done that anyway, but it had gone a couple of weeks with no improvement before I put Equaide on it. It's such weird stuff. It looks like Dead Sea Mud (and as if we haven't got enough mud as it is!). It smells of nothing at all, and you paint it on with a brush, like some kind of witch doctor!

At least I won't be needing excision now (that's excision, not exorcism, lol!).

I'm now kicking myself for not taking any "before" pictures because the result is quite hard to believe in such a short space of time

 

[Bess]

That's great, I'm really pleased for you. I know it worked a treat with my horse when the proud flesh showed no signs of reducing on its own.

 

[taceann]

Try this stuff ! www.underwoodhorsemedicine.com

Not too expensive and can come by mail order from US.

It does work - shake well and paint on with a paint brush (or spray on) then you throw on some baking powder on top so it sticks on. You do this as many times as possible the first few days then after that twice a day is enough. Just keep on doing this until it goes.

My horse had a cut which went infected on the inside of his hock and the poultice to draw out the infection probably set off the granulation. It was a lump as big as a man's thumbnail and projected quite a bit so he kept knocking it all the time so it would bleed, heal a bit, get knocked and so would never heal up. I was to the point of bandaging - waste of time really and was about to get the vet and sceptically thought I would try it (recommended by a friend who had it tested by Defra vet ).

So I gave it a go. I have been applying now for about four weeks and there is now only the very tiniest amount left now. It really is worth a go to try it.

I do have a pic of what it looked like before but not sure how to attach - a bit fuzzy - taken on mobile.