proud flesh/wound care

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Sharon Settles settl002@mc.duke.edu
Hoping someone can help enlighten me.  Believe it or not I got my first
pony when I was 6 years old, had 5 horses at one time throughout school, sold
became horseless when I left for college, finally got my current horse
a year ago and never had a cut or injury to deal with ...
until now that is.  My mare cut her rear right leg on front of her
pastern about 2 1/2 weeks agos. I wish I had called the vet to see
if it could have been stitched or not, but nothing I can do about that now.
I have been cleaning and treating it with furazone.  I was wrapping
it until the recent wet weather caused the bandage to stay wet all
the time and started a minor case of what looks like scratches to me. I
have now stopped bandaging it and am using Swat to control the flies.
Finally, my question - can anyone give advice or point me to a website
that has pictures of proudflesh?  I'm not sure if I should be scrubbing
the scab down with each cleaning or if this would be like picking off a scab
on me and just delay healing.  Because I've never seen proudflesh. I'm not
sure if what I am seeing is normal healing or not.  I know my mare is going
to have a small lump on her leg because of the way the cut was, but I just want
to help it heal strong so it won't break everytime she bumps it.

PS:  She never showed signs of infection, never had swelling, or had any signs
of lameness.

Thanks for your help,

Sharon



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