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Discussion on Sore chestnuts
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Member:
deedles5
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Posted on Saturday, Oct 6, 2007 - 2:37 pm:
My 9 year QH gelding has been off on his right front for about three months. He has had the full workup, and is going to a hoof rehab place next week. Lately I noticed that his chestnuts are sore on his front legs, they are also very close to the skin level. I do not remember them being so odd. He resents me touching them. Any comments?
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Member:
hwood
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Posted on Saturday, Oct 6, 2007 - 2:55 pm:
I have noticed that some of my horses don't want their chestnuts touched, and I assumed it was because they were thinking I was going to peel them off. Being close to skin level isn't bad, in fact, as the chestnuts grow, if the horse doesn't rub them off by himself (from scratching his face and eyes on them) then they can be removed easily by coating with petroleum jelly and peeling them off the next day. Some horses have chestnuts that grow in separate "chunks" and some have chestnuts that grow in layers. Maybe when the chestnuts are at skin level, the horse is more able to feel the "tickle" of out touch?
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DrO
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Posted on Sunday, Oct 7, 2007 - 9:14 am:
Hello Dorthea,
I agree that if the chestnuts do not look traumatized or infected this is unlikely as a source of lameness. However it is easy to check: a little lidocaine under the chestnut and if he goes sound you have your localization but I am not aware of any disease processes of the chestnut that cause lameness.
DrO
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corinne
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Posted on Sunday, Oct 7, 2007 - 10:19 am:
Sir if Dorothea doesn't have the vet out and wants to follow your recommendation will a topical analgesic like ambesol work since lidocaine would be a vet only medicine? Just curious. Perhaps it wouldn't have the same numbing affect but the idea sounds practical about the lidocaine that is.
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DrO
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Posted on Monday, Oct 8, 2007 - 7:43 am:
I don't think it will penetrate the epidermis Corinne which is far more impermeable than the mucosa of the mouth.
DrO
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Member:
corinne
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Posted on Monday, Oct 8, 2007 - 7:50 am:
Hey it was worth asking about....sometimes creativity can conjure up some wonderful horse treatments!  Your correct in that the mucosa is much more permeable....too bad we don't have Emla cream here without a prescription which we used as a topical anesthetic on skin for procedures.
Thanks for answering my question!
Corinne
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