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Re: [RC] Proud Flesh/wound treatment - Chelsea MarshDarlene, About two years ago my mare had an injury similar to what you are describing. However with her injury she WAS lame on it for awhile. She developed a pretty good sized hunk of proud flesh. Our vet gave as options some of the other methods described in other posts for getting rid of it but felt that trimming the proud flesh would be the best thing to do. It gets rid of the proud flesh much more quickly so that the flesh around it can start healing and closing up. It was expected that the proud flesh would grow back and we would have to trim it again but for some reason it never grew back and the wound soon after closed up. So you can see that I haven't had to deal with multiple trimmings that you might have to deal with. Other than a scar my mare is doing great. We haven't as yet done any Endurance rides but she has done a lot of miles in trail riding. I hope this might be of some help, good luck with your colt! Chelsea On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:53:10 -0800, "Darlene" <tutvey@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: Happy New Year everyone! Does anyone know what is the latest protocol with regards to preventing proud flesh? I have a just turned one year old who cut his hind leg (ripped skin off from knee down to coronet band) and shaved a few slivers off of his flexor tendon. He was never lame on it. I have been keeping him stall bound, he is getting the bandage changed every day and it is still a nasty looking mess. The vet comes weekly and last week we put an ointment on it to knock back the proud flesh that was just starting at the top of the wound. It looks worse this week. The ointment is very caustic and I really don't want to use it if I don't have too. I have put nothing else on the wound. Just rinse it with saline daily and re-wrap. Tomorrow it will be one month. He's been in a stall the entire time. He has not got the wound wet or dirty,. He IS NOT getting better. It has filled in a bit but is still about 4" x 6" and deep (say 1/3 and the tendon is still visible) Tomorrow my Vet comes again. He wants to "trim" around the wound. I have great reservations about this as he isn't infected and why make this huge wound bigger? I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks Darlene/NW WA PS The vet wants him stall bound, (not even hand walked) but he can buck and rear and does all kinds of "airs above the ground in his stall" He's going stir crazy that's for sure. -- Chelsea Marsh chelsea_marsh@xxxxxxxxxxx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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