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 Foreword:
This article reports into the use of Oralmat wound healing spray on a number of horses that had suffered severe injury. Following treatment with Oralmat wound healing spray, wounds began healing rapidly. All horses appear to have benefitted from the use of Oralmat wound healing spray.
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Clearview Park Stud Pty. Ltd.
A history of open wound treatment on thoroughbred horses at Clearview Park Stud situated at Tallarook
- Nature of injuries.
- Description of treatment.
- Nature of treatment.
- Consequential results.
1) Nature of injuries.
In July 1990, a series of four injuries commenced on the stud, which in the first case caused extensive open wound laceration at considerable depth, was of jagged nature and stretched approximately ten inches with a depth of four inches across the chest. The injury was caused by the penetration of a fencing post at an accelerated impact, while the horse was galloping in the paddock. Veterinary opinion upon inspection, was that the wound was of such a nature, depth and width at a place of muscular movement, that it was unlikely to have a holding response to suture. His opinion was also that the recovery of the wound would take a long time, and would leave considerable scar tissue and limited muscular formation and recovery.
2) Description of treatment solution.
Schumacher Pharmaceutical's Oralmat wound Healing Spray.
3) Nature of treatment.
Initially, wound was thoroughly cleaned and a course of spray coverage was commenced.
4) Consequential results.
Evidence of healing was very prompt. The wound was constantly in a state of complete cleanliness and seemed to repel flies and insects. Each day evidenced degrees of healing which lessened the wound in size as the hair band progressed in coverage from all sides of the wound over the injured flesh. The final proof of healing is the scar exposure of a thin line evidencing the joining of the wound. No distortion of the flesh took place, no proud flesh developed at any stage of the healing process, and no impediment to the horse's gait or range of movement resulted. Wound healing time from commencement of injury to total recovery took approximately six weeks.
Nature of Injuries, Summary of Treatment and Response of other three Horses.
SECOND HORSE.
Rare Pearl (FR) - Wonderland (GB) - 2 year old brown filly.
Nature of Injury: Extensive open wound of extreme depth caused to the offside hind rump.
Treatments given to all horses are of exactly the same nature as extended to the first horse. The response was as immediate with the healing spray being evident with everyday treatment and the final wound evidence being a slight depression surrounding the jagged scar tissue line where the hair line meet.
THIRD HORSE
Snow Knight (GB) - Sweeter - 2 year old brown filly.
Nature of Injury: Six inch laceration to hind leg penetrating to cannon bone, causing laceration and outer bone damage.
Veterinary opinion was that the nature of bone injury would not be responsive to treatment and the prospect of flesh recovery would be impeded by large proud flesh growth and outer leg swelling.
Nature of treatment as with others.
Recovery was initially more gradual as flesh covered the wound, but became more rapid as the wound filled with flesh regrowth.
The final closure of the wound and it's resultant healing to a thin scar line with very little leg swelling or distortion of shape was complete and to date the animal has shown no impediment in movement, or facility to accept it's full body weight.
FOURTH HORSE
Snow Knight (GB) - April Point - yearling.
Of the four horses treated, the nature of the injury to this animal was the worst. It suffered a most severe near side knee laceration, penetrating to the bone and spread over the whole of the kneecap.
The total front of the kneecap and moving parts were exposed by the injury, and extensive swelling took place.
Veterinary opinion: That it was not worth treating the animal.
The treatment was similar to the other horses, and whilst the wound is still ugly, swelling is reduced and wound size is becoming smaller, with an improvement in mobility being evidenced every day.
It appears, to several horsemen that after use of the treatment the horse's mobility and knee action seems to improve.
Brendan McCarthy
Stud Master
Clearview Park Stud Pty. Ltd.
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