One of the horses here had a very serious wound on their hind leg. The wound was on the side of his leg. He had caught his leg in some electric fencing and some of the skin on his leg had been severely torn. It was flapping and loose. The injury was about 6 – 7″ long.
How we Dressed this Wound
We cleaned the injury and then applied a dressing onto the wound. On the dressing we put Traumeel Gel and Manuka Honey. The manuka honey prevents the dressing from drying up and sticking to the wound which if this happens just delays healing as the soft new skin which is growing gets broken when you come to change the dressing if it is allowed to stick to the dressing
So by having Manuka honey with Traumeel Gel this prevents this from occurring.You need to be quite generous with the amount of honey you use.
Maggots
With this Horse Injury when we came to change the dressing the wound was completely clean, however, interestingly, where the dead skin was lying there were a bunch of maggots eating it away.
Once I had got over the initial shock of finding this, I was able to appreciate how they had eaten up the dead skin surounding the injury. They were outside, just on the edges where the dressing lay, as a result it was all clean along the edges, where normally you would have had old dry skin. Nature had done its job.
Results
The wound healed up perfectly with minimal scaring, far better than if it had been stitched.
When a local vet saw this horse a few months later he could not believe how good the scar was, it was like a very fine line hardly visible.
