What’s in your horses First Aid box?

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I’m updating Paris’s First Aid box and looking for tips on what else I need!

Bandages, Salt, Purple spray, Cooling gel, wound cream, Aloe Vera gel, Sun cream and Scissors
I’m sure I need lots more!!

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in mine i have about everything under the sun but no point havin crap u dont use lol

i think u've got the main needs i would add animal intex and vetwrap
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ooh we have a rather large first aid kit...
salt, and saline ready made up in a squirty bottle, hibiscrub, iodine, aloe vera, tea tree cream, animal lintex, vet wrap, bandage, gamgee, cotton wool, plaster tape, gaffer tape, several sachets of bute, tupperware to soak dressing in. scissors, tweezers, adhesive dressings, poultice boot (or improvised - square of old rug), clean towel, torch, thermometer.....and a pack of mints to say well done for standing still!
 
Oh Lordy!

I think I have everything you could think of!

Enough bandages to easily create a Robert Jones bandage
Various small dressings melolin, charcoal, vaseline and iodine, Mare is accident prone!
I always keep in 6 vetwrap and 12 sofban
Duct Tape
Animalintex square and hoof

Hoof testers
Stethoscope Thermometer
Tweezers
Tick Remover
Forceps
Curved, straight and bandage scissors
Disposable gloves
Stainless Steel dish
Kettle
Wire cutters

Danilon
Ventipulmin (both prescribed by the vet and only used when necessary
Aloe Vera Gel
Dermoline
Sudocrem
New dermobion (can't remember the name!)
Vaseline
Intrasite gel
Hibiscrub
Arnica
witchhazel
Surgical spirit
wound powder
Purple spray
Antibacterial hand gel

Plasters, a sling and TCP for me!

I'm sure I have forgotten a lot of stuff too! It sounds like loads, but honestly I do use it all quite regularly!
 
Animalintex, nappies and gaffer tape for pouticing ( I also have a Hoofeeze boot as you can use it for turnout when foot is poulticed for abscess etc)
Gamgee
Cotton Wool
Thermometer
Surgical spirit
Hydrogen peroxide
Syringes
Epsom Salts
Vetwrap
Wound Powder

Probably a few more but brain not functioning as lunchtime!
 
Ah interesting! I should get some nappies, what size do you use?

I have the syringes, but wouldn't know what to do with Epsom Salts TBH!

I have a bottle of Hydrogen peroxide but have never had to use it. Is it just for thrush or can you use it for other things?
 
I have some Sedalin in mine as my boy is a big baby and won't let me touch anything if he's even a bit hurt. As long as the injury's not too bad and he's not in shock I give him a bit to help me treat him more easily.
 
big nappies as he has big feet so get the ones for older babies! Syringes are great for flushing things out. Epsom salts I have used to try and draw things out, bites, lumps etc and have only used peroxide for thrush but guess there must be other uses. Also try to keep a few sachets of bute and some Sedalin to hand as they too come in handy.
 
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