Re: [RC] Barbwire accidents- hope in a bottle - Chris PausI can vouch for silvadene. Last winter I sold a colt to a very nice endurance rider in Texas. Well, of course, 10 days before she was to pick him up, he did gawd knows what in the pasture and peeled the skin off his right knee. He missed tendons and ligaments, thank goodness and there was no damage to the joint capsule, but it was awfully swollen and ugly. the vet cleaned it up well, slathered it with silvadene and bandaged it well. He was on SMZ tabs twice a day for a week, and on daily wound flushing and rebandaging. The vet wasn't sure the colt would be healed enough to make a 16 hour trailer trip to Texas by his scheduled departure, but he was.
His new mom continued the treatments at home and the booboo is all healed and you can barely see where it was.
Horses have an incredible ability to heal themselves. I've seen some truly ferocious wounds on horses and it's amazing to look at them a couple of months later and see how much healing has happened.
chris
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