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Re: [RC] furacin caustic Susan Please - Linda Marins----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM" <suendavid@xxxxxxx ...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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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