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Unfortunately Billy got beaten up by the Shetland early this morning and now has 30 stitches, with multiple cuts everywhere else. Majority are large patches of grazes/skinned areas so not sure what to put on them. For now I've used intrasite but nurse mum has just told me that isn't actually a healing product, it only keeps wound moist. I know keeping wound moist is essential but is there something that will encourage healing as well as keep it moist?
Unable to bandage as stitches/large skinned areas in too awkward places - even vet couldn't bandage them. Can you put anything on stitched cuts? I was thinking manuka honey but not sure.
Thanks :)
 
Can't recommend Redhorse's HoneyHeal enough! I've used it several times and each time I'm impressed how quick things heal. My boy had a deep nasty cut on his knee, kept applying honey heal and 2 weeks later it is fully healed.

It's messy and claggy and 'runs' but it's fab!
 
only_me said:
Unfortunately Billy got beaten up by the Shetland early this morning and now has 30 stitches, with multiple cuts everywhere else. Majority are large patches of grazes/skinned areas so not sure what to put on them. For now I've used intrasite but nurse mum has just told me that isn't actually a healing product, it only keeps wound moist. I know keeping wound moist is essential but is there something that will encourage healing as well as keep it moist?
Unable to bandage as stitches/large skinned areas in too awkward places - even vet couldn't bandage them. Can you put anything on stitched cuts? I was thinking manuka honey but not sure.
Thanks :)
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Wound healing is just a matter of optimising the wound environment - so if the wounds are clean and not infected, keeping them moist will be perfect, so intrasite should be fine. Manuka is great stuff - for sloughy infected wounds. If it isn't manky, there's no need to use manuka.
My wound healing buddy said that a good ruleof thumb is to apply the same colour as the exudate from the wound. If it's seeping clear/pale fluid, use intrasite or similar. If it's seeping yellow/orange(pus) - time for manuka

ETA this is an interesting read.

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Yep, Billy is 17h and *****land is 36"!

Honeyheal sounds good! Wounds aren't manky as far as i can see, might keep using intrasite then unless become infected. It's the stitched wounds I'm most concerned with, can you put anything on them?

M
 
Not sure re: stitched wound but I use blue spray for surface scrapes. Jake quite often takes the hair/layer of skin off but doesn't actually gouge out if you know what I mean.
I keep up the blue spray, encourages to scab, helps the hair grow back fast and the right colour, and keeps bugs away.... Don't ask me why it does the above, but they're just my observations and I swear by it! (Please don't confuse with purple spray which I don't like :D)
 
only_me said:
Yep, Billy is 17h and *****land is 36"!

Honeyheal sounds good! Wounds aren't manky as far as i can see, might keep using intrasite then unless become infected. It's the stitched wounds I'm most concerned with, can you put anything on them?

M
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Similar principles - if they stay clean and uninfected, just keep them moist and they should heal fine.

BAD shitland!
 
Not a cream as such but a fellow livery put me on to these little pods of sterile saline, I think they're called steripods. You can warm them in a mug of hot water (or indeed tea) and then just twist the top off and squirt away. The saline comes out in quite a thin stream so you can really get some pressure behind it to irrigate wounds nicely and get rid of any gack that's accumulated.

I quite like that iodine ointment for keeping flies off etc. Is it called betadine? Is that terribly old fashioned and out of favour these days?
 
I'm not keen on iodine sprays, Just preference really. Haven't heard of steripods before, but will look into them :) he is on ABs to be safe & is mooching about in yard (very painfully - I've never seen him as sore before :( ) which will help with swelling and keep wounds in air.

The ****land is not in my good books. Skinning sounds like a brilliant idea, with the left over skin & fur I could make some nice slippers.
 
I personally wouldn't put anything on a clean stitched wound, stitches should be kept dry.
 
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Agree leave clean stitched wound dry. Intrasite from what I remember from nursing
will absorb exudate from the wound and promote a moist environment, but diffcult to apply to lots of areas maybe. The important thing is to keep any cuts covered with a dressing or a cream which will stay on to avoid flies interfering.
 
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Agree leave clean stitched wound dry. Intrasite from what I remember from nursing
will absorb exudate from the wound and promote a moist environment, but diffcult to apply to lots of areas maybe. The important thing is to keep any cuts covered with a dressing or a cream which will stay on to avoid flies interfering.
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I can't cover any cuts as they are all in awkward places, which is why trying to get something to go on them. Might keep to the intrasite then, and leave the stitches well alone :)
 
How do you keep the intrasite in place? In humans, we used a film type dressing over it, but that would be unlikely to stay put on a horse.
 
It's the gel pots I have, which I squeeze out & put onto cuts - so gel type? Quite a thick gel so stays well.
I also have the intrasite dressings which are amazing but won't stay put unless bandaged on unfortunately. I could do a short bandage just covering the bigger cuts but that'll create pressure in that area so not sure :/
 
I would use barrier heel 2 hoof for the grazed areas (not sure about stitched areas.) It's really gloopy and stays put - antibacterial and keeps skin soft. I use it on all my minor wounds. Stops the flies too. They sell it in countrywide :)
 
Vaseline is your friend, I use it on everything. It keeps the wound moist and covered, stays on by itself, and they don't try to lick it (at least, not more than once :D). Mum is a doctor, she recommends it for for both horses and people!
 
The best stuff I've found for smaller wounds (and mud fever as well) is Filtabac - it stays put, is antibacterial, has SPF and keeps the flies away. Would be good for the grazes but not sure about the stitches, perhaps Aluspray as a previous poster suggested?
 
I use an aloe vera 'healing gel' for inflamed grazes like this, it really seems to cool and calm the skin.
 
My horse got beaten up in the field at the end of last summer and was left with quite a nasty wound on his leg which we had to have stitched up by the vet. The vet advised me to put Manuka honey on it and I honestly have never known anything as good!! We put it straight on top of the stitches and it was amazing!! A nasty wound right on the joint was healed within 3 weeks. You can buy it off of Amazon for a fraction of the price of what the vets sell it as well. As long as its the medical grade stuff :)
 
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