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    Re: [RC] DMSO and abcess - NO! - Linda


        Several months ago I posted to the list about the use of DMSO for
    treatment of leg injuries but didn't get any responses.  I'll try to
    recreate what I wrote and maybe you'll remember....  My mare had gotten a
    tear in her tendon sheath. When I had her ultrasounded at the University of
    TN to find out the extent of her injuries I asked the Vet what treatment I
    should have done (to see if I had done the correct immediate treatment).  I
    will try to quote what he said... "I would have tubed water with DMSO into
    her, I believe so strongly in this that I would have stolen or held the ride
    vet at gunpoint to get this done".   I also asked my regular vet about this
    and he agreed (actually selling me vet grade DMSO in case I should ever
    need).  Anyway... they both agree that this would go a long way in immediate
    treatment and reducing the healing time of a leg injury.   I'd like to know
    if anyone here has used this treatment or if you agree?
    
    Linda
    
    
    > > DMSO is not a vet controlled substance.  DMSO is an over
    > > the counter topical and Dot made a point of bringing up the
    > > issue of treating an inflamation that happened to be an
    > > abcess with topical DMSO.  Big difference between something
    > > you can buy out of a catalog for $5 as a rollon and, say,
    > > an antibiotic you would have to have gotten from your vet
    > > or by perscription only.
    > >
    > > I have not personally seen IV DMSO for sale to the general
    > > horse owner.  Huge difference in the use you brought up
    > > about treating strangles abcesses.  And yes, infection
    > > can be spread through out the body... a systemic infection
    > > is a very serious thing.  "Blood poisoning", or infection
    > > that has reached the blood stream, travels throughout
    > > the body.  This can show up on people as a red streak
    > > up, say, your arm.
    >
    > Indeed, DMSO can be purchased over the counter exactly as it is used IV.
    > It is available from many sources as 99.9% pure liquid by the pint or the
    > gallon, and that's exactly what veterinarians (and often laymen as well)
    > inject or give orally.  Likewise, penicillin can be purchased at virtually
    > any feed store over the counter.  So I think the comparison of lay use and
    > availability of the two drugs is apt.
    > As to spreading infection throughout the body, certainly the infection can
    > spread--the point is that DMSO would not be apt to spread it.  DMSO
    > "drives" chemicals across cell walls, whereas the spread of infection
    > systemically via an abcess is due to the bloodstream picking up bacteria
    > from the abcess and carrying those bacteria elsewhere in the body.
    > Different mode of action.
    > > I did infact bring up fly spray and other surface born
    > > contaminates in my first post and pointed out that those
    > > will travel into the body with the DMSO.
    >
    > Yes--and your point was quite valid.  Which was why I reiterated that this
    > was indeed a concern.
    > > Heidi, if you would like to argue that using topical DMSO
    > > is a legitimate use, go right ahead.  I would never ever
    > > recommend using topical DMSO on an abcess to the general
    > > horse owning public.
    >
    > I'm not trying to argue with anyone--simply trying to present information.
    >  As to the above statement--I presume you meant to say "using topical DMSO
    > on an abcess" in your first sentence as well.  Topical use of DMSO is
    > quite legitimate in many circumstances, however using it topically on
    > abcesses is not anything I recommended, either.  That said, the original
    > posts on this topic were also denigrating the use of DMSO in infections in
    > general, and that was the point I chose to clarify.  That said, I'd
    > suspect that the concentration of DMSO at an abcess site is far higher
    > when we use it IV than if it were put on topically.  Just trying to
    > educate folks about the drug, so that other ridecampers aren't put off if
    > their veterinarians opt to use DMSO in cases involving infections.
    > You are right not to recommend the use of ANY drug to the horse-owning
    > public without medical knowledge of each individual case.  My point in
    > bringing up the penicillin is that MANY drugs (including DMSO) are
    > available over the counter, and are easily misused and misunderstood.
    > BTW, it occurred to me after I posted about using DMSO in strangles cases
    > and pneumonia cases that many bovine practitioners also recommend use IV
    > DMSO in cases of calf diarrhea--my understanding is that the relief of
    > edema of the GI tract in these cases is also profound and significant,
    > just as it is in the lungs of pneumonia cases.  I wouldn't be surprised
    > but what it is used in many other infective situations to good effect as
    > well--those just happen to be the situations in which I've used it and
    > have known colleagues to use it.
    > My main point here is that I've never seen or heard of any evidence that
    > DMSO itself spreads infections to other parts of the body, even though it
    > has had extensive use in a variety of infective circumstances.
    > Heidi
    >
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