Suggestions for sutures from sinus flush

[WestCoast]

My mare is coming home tomorrow after having a sinoscopy and sinus flush done. She’ll have sutures and a dressing.

I’ve been told she can go out if it’s dry. Honestly I think she’ll be less likely to rub it out than in the stable.

Anyone got any experience of this and/or ideas for keeping the area clean.

 

[TheMule]

Different surgery (eye removal), but might be worth seeing if you can buy/borrow a recovery mask if you’re worried about her rubbing it? If not, a good quality fly mask that sits well off the face

 

[WestCoast]

Just an update on this. She had a polster sheet cut to shape stuck over the dressing - this is a kind of sticky back foam that sticks to hair and it worked really well to protect the stitches even if she did look a bit phantom of the opera. It lasted about 2-3 days of it kept dry - so I did buy more and make new ones. We did use a snuggly hoods head initially, but she rotated it and scared herself so I swapped to a normal fly mask which she did keep getting off rolling but we managed to turn her out every day.

The wound from sinoscopy and flushing was about 2.5” long and had quite heavyweight sutures in it which came out after a fortnight yesterday. At he moment it looks a bit crusty but seems to be healing. I’ve been advised to let it heal before riding her.

The sinusitis has fingers cross completely resolved at the moment. She just didn’t seem that bothered - they said she was very well behaved in hospital, wasn’t fussed about me changing the dressing and she let the vet take her sutures out yesterday without needing any sedation.