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A vet I used when I lived in Souther Florida told to mix up a dilute 
solution of 7% iodine and to spray a healing cut with it a couple times 
a day to dry out the granulation tissue. Then to rub it with the finger 
to remove it. I have done that one a few cuts and the wound healed quite 
nicely with no proud flesh and little scaring.

Truman

Linda Marins wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM" <suendavid@xxxxxxx
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> > ...Furacin (both ointment and powder...promote
> > granulation tissue.  Granulation tissue is the first tissue the body
> > manufactures to form a bridge across a cut, upon which epithelial (skin)
> > tissue will later migrate across to close the wound.  The problem is that
> > epithelial tissue doesn't do speed bumps very well, and if the granulation
> > tissue creates a scaffold, and then continues to grow abnormally above the
> > level of the surrounding tissue (forming a bump of increasing size), then
> > the skin won't close and you get proud flesh...  
> >     
>
> Is this the reason why, as a kid, we were always told to
> pick the scab off of leg cuts every day "to prevent
> proudflesh"?
>
> It never made any sense to me to pick a scab off of a
> healing cut.  I'd think that the scab would be protection
> from infection.  Yet that's what we were told (mid 60's
> to early 70's) and there my friends would be, soaking the
> scabs on our horse's fetlocks or pasterns, and picking
> them off every day.
>
> Linda Marins
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