reducing scarring/encouraging hair regrowth?

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Hi all,

My mare is on the road to recovery after suffering a kick to the head which incurred 17 staples :( her staples are now out and the wound s healing nicely :) however i am interested in fiding a product to reduce scarring/encourage hair regrowth? she also has 2 big grazes on her head which are also healing nicely but i would also like to promote healthy hair growth in the area. I have both bio oil (for stretch marks) and cornucresine but havent used either yat as im interested to know what products would work the best.Also what time is the best to apply? should i start now or wait a little longer?.....
 
Low level laser therapy set at the right parameters is great at speeding up tissue healing, and improving the quality of scar tissue. Most vet physio's use them for tendons/ligaments but they have a lot more uses than this!

I've had very good results using it on the leg of a show horse that took all the skin off the front of his hind leg getting stuck in a fence.

I know other people use manuka honey for wound healing.
 
I wouldn't put cornucrescine on broken skin, it is a mild blister so will probably make it quite sore.

Multicare cutheal is supposed to help healing and hair growth.
 
My horse has a huge barbed wire scar from a foal. Bio oil works fine, but is expensive. (Especially when you are holding onto a leg and trying to get it on the right place using far more of it than you intended.) I use virgin olive oil. Works beautifully! And encouraged hair regrowth. Another lady on my yard uses vaseline, which is also great and probably better for a head or facial scar as it won't drip? Echoes of cornucresine though, have known many who use that x
 
Many years ago (when we still used garlic as a supplement), I had a bay roan mare who cut right through the skin at the side of her knee, so that we could see the structures inside. the vet decided not to stitch but recommended 2xdaily washing/flushing to promote healing from the inside. She was in the furthest field from the yard, so we carried warm water to her in an old garlic supplement bucket. The smell of garlic, activated by the warm water, was quite strong at times. We syringed water into/onto the wound, which was just where her black stockings met her roan. The wound healed beautifully and in less than 12 months no-one could find the scar. There was no white hair growth at all.
Ever since, we have used a TINY amount of garlic when washing wounds, it does have anti-septic qualities but in excess can burn.
 
'Sudocrem'...i swear by it! i use it on my chestnut arab for cuts etc , (no white hair re-growth). Also scaring can be greatly helped with vitamin E applied to the skin and some supplements contain it.

I had a very bad accident when i was 15 on a horse which involved brain scans and 29 stitches above my eye, i have used vitamin E since then on a regular basis and you can only see my scar if you look very closely, unfortunately it didnt help with the onions growing out of my ears:D(joke!) Hope it helps:)
 
I agree with manuka honey, brilliant stuff.
The old method for hair growth, on a healed wound was to get the marrow out of a beef bone and mix with the same amount of paraffin. It does work well.
 
I would second the Mega-Tek recommendation. Although I have only used it for rug rubs on body and mane with astonishing results! H had a nasty rub on his chest, I applied the Mega-Tek twice, three days apart and within a week he had a lush covering of new hair - no one at the yard could believe it!
 
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