Treating abscess in cornet band

[Vodkagirly]

Dealt with lots of abscesses before but this the first one that has drained at the cornet band so advice is welcome.
Went out this morning to pony who didn't want to move. Could see some puss on cornet band clipped hair away, hosed it with warm water, irrigated with saline then abscess then poultice. I took the poultice of tonight and it is draining freely. I've turned pony out in a clean paddock. He is eating and can move but he is a bit reluctant.
What's the best to treat this? I'm not sure how well he will tub as he is a bit of a woss.

 

[meleeka]

Tub with epsom salts if he’ll let you and squirt peroxide into the hole every day using a syringe. It fizzes all the gunk out.

 

[Cragrat]

If they have come out at the coronet band, I usually do very little to them, apart from keep the horse moving, which help push any remaining gunk out. I might tub it once, but repeated tubbing just softens everything. I wouldn't use too much hydrogen peroxide - it does kill bugs, but also kills a lot of healthy stuff too. You end up with a lot of dead cells at the bottom of the hole to be pushed out with the original abcess gunk.

 

[ycbm]

Peroxide does kill bugs, but also kills a lot of healthy stuff too. You end up with a lot of dead cells at the bottom of the hole to be pushed out with the original abcess gunk.

I think this is a myth spread by people marketing hugely more expensive stuff. Hydrogen peroxide is sold for first aid kits with the instructions that it is used at 3% solution for the flushing out of human wounds. If it caused a lot of cell death it wouldn't be sold for first aid use.

For horse abscesses, what it does is deliver a mass of oxygen into the abscess, and since the little buggers that cause abscesses don't like to breed in oxygen it stops them multiplying. The pressure of the fizz as the oxygen releases also flushes gunk to the surface.

I have always treated abscesses that split at the coronet by pumping in peroxide as hard as possible from a syringe, twice a day until you can't get it in the hole any more. They have always resolved quickly and easily.

VG, whatever you do don't let the hole close at the top, it can seal stuff back in. And don't be frightened, a hole will now grow down the hoof wall but it shouldn't cause any problem.
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[Cragrat]

I think this is a myth spread by people marketing hugely more expensive stuff. Hydrogen peroxide is sold for first aid kits with the instructions that it is used at 3% solution for the flushing out of human wounds. If it caused a lot of cell death it wouldn't be sold for first aid use.

For horse abscesses, what it does is deliver a mass of oxygen into the abscess, and since the little buggers that cause abscesses don't like to breed in oxygen it stops them multiplying. The pressure of the fizz as the oxygen releases also flushes gunk to the surface.

I have always treated abscesses that split at the coronet by pumping in peroxide as hard as possible from a syringe, twice a day until you can't get it in the hole any more. They have always resolved quickly and easily.

VG, whatever you do don't let the hole close at the top, it can seal stuff back in. And don't be frightened, a hole will now grow down the hoof wall but it shouldn't cause any problem.
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Learned something - thank you