Does DMSO expire?
Wendy
has a shelf life. Anyone know? It's also been stored in the trailer so it's
gotten hot. For $6, I'll just buy another bottle, but I did wonder about it.
And then there's the problem of disposal... perhaps I'm more wary of
the stuff than I need to be, but I don't want to contaminate any water
with it.
Wendy
Polish arabians
use it for.. have one mare with a kick that is draining.. that i am puting
plain furazone on and another that cast herself.. and knocked her leg.. no
lameness just swelling..
Wendy
I used to do it in a small bowl, but recently hit on the idea of using
a plastic sandwich bag.
I then put a piece of plastic wrap over the area and put on standing wraps. That's
_how_ to do it, but do check with your vet to see if it's indicated for whatever
problem you've got.
Mine has me do this with swellings-- I don't know if you ought to put it on an
open wound.
Wendy in Chandler, AZ
http://members.home.com/wendywds
CMNewell
DMSO is intensely hygroscopic. that is, it'll essentially pull water
out of the air and dilute itself if not airtight.
CMNewell, DVM
self-proclaimed vet
Surgeon General of the Bogbash Party
"You can be perverse, a horse cannot." --TvG
CMNewell
wrote:
If you have a kick wound that is draining, you're
better off making sure that there is not a foreign body (such as a
bony sequestrum) responsible before you go slopping a known carcinogen
on the area combined with a substance that enhances absorption.
Particularly if you have no rationale for
combining the two.
CMNewell
<we...@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me> wrote:
>I then put a piece of plastic wrap over the area and put on standing wraps. That's
>_how_ to do it, but do check with your vet to see if it's indicated for whatever
>problem you've got.
>
You horse must have relatively thick skin. I've known more than a few
who had the same concoction applies under plastic and it made an
excellent blister.
Polish arabians
thorobred mare that had a run in with a smaller witchy mare.. the witchy mare
litterally tattood her on the fleshy forarm.. and would have had one heck of a
hematoma had it not been puntured wile she was being kicked... i was there when
it happened... they used to be best buddies.. but go figure..lol i was able to
advert anything worse...the vet said there is not much he could do for it but
for me to keep doign what i am doing.. the cold hosing.. and furazone over the
opening.. i also give.. horse aspirin.. not bute.. but real aspirin.. horse
size..lol
Ross Struthers
a small cut on Pepsi when the stable help mentioned to her that it was
carcinogenic. I had not heard that before and looked on our Canadian
labelled can of furazone - no warning. The US labelled can - same
strength etc. - contained a warning that it was carcinogenic in mice. I
am now trying to decide if Canadian mice are just a tougher bunch, or
...
Ross and Atlas (toughing it out in DC)
CMNewell
wrote:
>well .. i know there is no forein body in it.. thankfully... this is a
Unless you have radiographed the area, you *don't* know there is not
a bony sequestrum, as I said in the first post.
Not only that, it doesn't necessarily show up immediately.
Fortunately, I didn't have to learn this at the expense of one of my
best clients--the radiologist I showed the films to asked me if it was
a kick injury. When I replied in the affirmative, he urged me to
reradiograph the leg in a month, and sure enough, there was dead bone
whichhadn't been visible initially.
When the mare went to surgery, the surgeon also flushed out hair that
had been driven deep into the soft tissue by the force of the kick.
This from a wound that had been draining for 6 weeks, and was being
hosed daily.
Wendy
> You horse must have relatively thick skin. I've known more than a few
> who had the same concoction applies under plastic and it made an
> excellent blister.
Just plain old Appy skin. :) It hasn't ever bothered him, but then,
nothing much does... I've never seen a 'blister' but I think the skin
peels? Nothing like that has ever happened.
This combo isn't my favorite-- I don't like handling DMSO and the
Furazone has all sorts of dire warnings on it. I'd rather do a clay
poultice. [A prior vet said that it wasn't so much the clay, but all the
hosing and rubbing you have to do to get it OFF that helps the leg!]
If I have heat and swelling, it doesn't seem to me a good thing to wrap it
up in plastic.
I take it DMSO/Furazone isn't something you recommend for your clients?
--
Wendy in Chandler, AZ
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wendywds ** at ** home ** dot ** com
Forhrss
gravel, the foot has healed, the abcess drained and he is comfortable on the
leg. But the leg is still full . NO heat, the swelling feels hard.
