Stable bandages for box rest after tendon surgery?

[Fruitcake]

Horse has just returned from hospital after surgery to DDFT and SDFT with instructions to stable bandage after stitches are out. (Leg is sterile bandaged at the moment until stitches come out).

I don't have any stable bandages or padding as they're not something I use so I'm about to order some. What's best to use as padding? Gamgee type stuff or those wrap-around pads?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ali27]

I used the Premier Equine stable wraps on my mare after surgery on her SDFT.

 

[HappyDayz]

My horse has stable bandages on every night. The best I have found so far are the Lemieux stable bandages, they're long enough, breathable and bedding doesn't stick too badly! For pads, Mark Todd leg pads. The fronts aren't quite long enough so I buy two sets and just use the bigger ones.

 

[be positive]

I would use gamgee to start with, it is softer, will mold better and can be easily cut to fit properly, you will get through a bit if there is any discharge but from a hygiene point of view I would rather use it then chuck it out for the first week or so, you can then progress to bandage pads or stable wraps, when my horse had surgery I used loads of gamgee on the leg that was operated on as it just goes on so much better.

 

[AdorableAlice]

Gamgee or Soffban and lots of it to avoid any pressure points, I do think bandaging needs to have a lot of care taken. Good quality polo bandages are a decent length.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Stitches normally stay in for 10 days. I would check with the vets that the bandage is definitely not to be touched for 10 days. That seems a long time not to clean a wound for!

 

[eggs]

When my mate had to be bandaged following surgery to remove a fractured splint bone that didn't heal on box rest my vet was quite specific that I had to use gamgee and not bandage pads under the bandages.

 

[be positive]

Stitches normally stay in for 10 days. I would check with the vets that the bandage is definitely not to be touched for 10 days. That seems a long time not to clean a wound for!

When my mate had to be bandaged following surgery to remove a fractured splint bone that didn't heal on box rest my vet was quite specific that I had to use gamgee and not bandage pads under the bandages.

I think it needs changing every other day at least, when mine came back from the vets I was told to change it "regularly" and he was sent back with the dressings and bandages to put on, I changed it the day after he came home because it was a bit dirty on the outside and found that the dressing that was meant to be covering the wound had been put on the wrong way, the wound was vertical, the dressing horizontal so it had slipped and was not covering the wound at all, so it was just as well I did change it as the padding was all getting stuck into the stitches, it was fairly simple to do it correctly yet the vet nurse had obviously not managed to do a decent job.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I think it needs changing every other day at least, when mine came back from the vets I was told to change it "regularly" and he was sent back with the dressings and bandages to put on, I changed it the day after he came home because it was a bit dirty on the outside and found that the dressing that was meant to be covering the wound had been put on the wrong way, the wound was vertical, the dressing horizontal so it had slipped and was not covering the wound at all, so it was just as well I did change it as the padding was all getting stuck into the stitches, it was fairly simple to do it correctly yet the vet nurse had obviously not managed to do a decent job.

It's amazing just how naff some vets and vet nurses actually are at bandaging! I don't allow them to do any now, I always do it myself. Same at work, we do all the bandages - well some of us. Most arent capable of doing more than a stable bandage but there's enough of us to do big ones that that doesn't matter.

 

[Fruitcake]

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll get some Gamgee then, certainly for the first week or so and then maybe look at the PE wraps.

Stitches normally stay in for 10 days. I would check with the vets that the bandage is definitely not to be touched for 10 days. That seems a long time not to clean a wound for!

The same bandage isn't staying on for ten days! Vet has to do first change tomorrow and then I'll do it every 48 to 72 hours as instructed by the hospital. I'll get the dressings from the vet for that.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll get some Gamgee then, certainly for the first week or so and then maybe look at the PE wraps.



The same bandage isn't staying on for ten days! Vet has to do first change tomorrow and then I'll do it every 48 to 72 hours as instructed by the hospital. I'll get the dressings from the vet for that.

That makes much more sense! Your first post read as though the bandage itself was staying on for 10 days without being changed!