ridecamp@endurance.net: Scratches - possible remedy

Scratches - possible remedy

Stacy A Berger (Stacy_A_Berger@ccm.sc.intel.com)
Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:42:34 -0700 (PDT)

My horse Porter gets scratches at every endurance ride.
He doesn't seem to get them on when we are conditioning, but
every ride they reappear. After a ride in May, Porter had them real
bad. I usually put the cortizone ointement/furacil/desitin mix but was
out of cortizone ointment and desitin. So - looking around my horse
medicine cabinet I saw some "White lotion" that the vet had given me to
prevent proud flesh from forming on a wound. So dumped all over the
scratches. Guess what - the scratches were completely gone the next
day. I didn't wrap it or anything. After Oakland this last weekend,
Porter had scratches again. The white lotion worked this time as well.

I don't know what is in the "White lotion" which is actually a liquid,
rather than what I would call a lotion. You may want to try it - I plan
to ask my vet what it is exactly.

Stacy Berger-Olsen
Gilroy CA

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