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Liliana Velasco Ariza
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Username: Liliana
Post Number: 289
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, Oct 25, 2006 - 9:20 pm: |   |
Hello all
On Monday when I went to check the horses Chipiwa's fetlock (TB about 20yo)was the size of a tennis ball, i seems to be a puncture wound of course I do not know how he did it, I was away for a week and the caretaker did not see it happen. I have been "cold hosing" ( the water never comes out really cold) and have injected Fluvicina which has two antibiotics and a antyinflamatory. I have given him three shots and the swelling has gone down by half, should I keep the medication further or just wait for the swelling to go down with the hosing?
Any advise will be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Liliana |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 16947
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, Oct 26, 2006 - 8:04 am: | |
Hello Liliana,
Without seeing the wound or knowing what you are giving, we cannot judge whether you should keep doing what you are doing. In short if you think there is still unresolved infection you should continue appropriate treatment. For more on this see Treatments and Medications for Horses » Antibiotics and Antimicrobials » Antibiotic Use in Horses: An Overview. You should also check your medications against the recommended dosages in that section.
DrO |
Liliana Velasco Ariza
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Username: Liliana
Post Number: 290
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, Oct 26, 2006 - 4:24 pm: | |
Fluvicina - Fort Dodge Animal Health www.ivis.org/vetprod/Drugs/product/chapter_
Fluvicina - Fort Dodge Animal Health dihydrostreptomycin - flumethasone - penicillin g procaine Fluvicina Forte –
I am trying to copy the link with the description of the drug I am giving Chippewa as you know what I can get here is very limited.
I has what they call Dengue here which is a type of Malaria only milder but still it knocked me out for a week! I think that the caretaker let horses out on to a field that I have not finish cleaning; After Hurricane Wilma you would be amazed as to what appeared on the land, from doors to broken windows, corrugated metal you name it, street lamps with the very thick glass, broken of course. And we have 600 hc. of which about 60% is jungle.
And as horses do Chippewa probably found the bit of barb wire I had not picked up or the street lamp buried under the banana tree!
Although I will probably find the answer in the article of HA I will ask, as I will be able to read it until tonight. But, is there like a home made poultice?!
Thank you so much Dr. O I knew I’d find the answer in HA but I did not know how to get to it!
Thanks again
Liliana |
Liliana Velasco Ariza
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Username: Liliana
Post Number: 291
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, Oct 26, 2006 - 4:27 pm: | |
Oooops! I had Dengue (duh) |
Corinne Meadows
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Username: Corinne
Post Number: 600
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, Oct 26, 2006 - 7:52 pm: | |
Dengue...haven't heard of that since I was a nurse in combat casualty care school. My wishes first that you maintain no residual effects of the illness. I sure hope you are feeling better.
My second comment is I so admire how you care for these horses with hurricanes, and limited resources and everything else you have to contend with that we in the states take for granted. I sure hope Chippewa is feeling better too.
Take care,
Corinne |
Liliana Velasco Ariza
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Username: Liliana
Post Number: 292
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, Oct 26, 2006 - 8:27 pm: | |
Thank you so much for caring Corinne, I still have a bad cough but I think I'm ok now.
Chippewa's fetlock is still swollen a little but he is not lame and is eating and drinking fine so I hope he is on the nearly on the mend now.
Thanks again, when I was in Colorado a few weeks back I wanted to buy everything I saw in the horse shops but of course I forgot to buy a poultice!
All the best
Liliana |
Corinne Meadows
Member
Username: Corinne
Post Number: 601
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, Oct 26, 2006 - 11:04 pm: | |
Liliana...that will remind me to pick up some extra Poultice next time I have to go shopping for Demetrius, I will send you some! Anything else you need I will gladly send you just send me an email.
Take care and glad to hear Chippewa is not lame and hasn't lost his appetite. I hope he continues to heal!
Take care,
Corinne |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 16955
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Friday, Oct 27, 2006 - 6:19 am: | |
Lilianna if you have a human drug store you could use Neosporin or any triple antibiotic ointment to cover the wound under a pressure bandage, I don't recommend a mud pack poultice over a open wound, and suggest you continue to follow the principles in the articles on wound care.
I would discontinue the steroid containing antibiotic and use a straight pen/strep till the wound looks well granulated in and can drain well. The corticosteroid may allow the infection go unchecked. Instead a bit of bute or flunixin to help with swelling and lameness would be more logical.
DrO |
