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Discussion on Rock puncture into the center of the frog
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lsweeney
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Posted on Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 - 9:55 pm:
Well, the pigeon fever is healing nicely. So we had to step on a rock.
The rock was narrow, about a 1/4 of an inch wide with a fatter end sticking out. It looks like it penetrated about 1/2 inch into the center of the frog.
She was walking up our driveway on pavement and I noticed her limping.
It was stuck in there pretty good. When I pulled it out, blood gushed with it.
I quickly took her to the pavement, and then soaked the foot with epsom salts and betadine, which was still warm from putting hot compresses on my other horse's pigeon fever abscess. I tried to carve out the center of the frog with a hoof knife, but where the hole was, it wants to close. I also didn't want to dig around too far into the hoof.
I let it soak for about 20 minutes, trying to draw anything that was up in there out. I then slathered a clay poultice on the bottom of the foot, and put it in an EZ boot that I had flushed with betadine.
I'm going to the vet tomorrow for her to lance my other horse's abscess. I will probably bring this horse with me.
Do you think it is an emergency to get her to a vet now?
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lsweeney
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Posted on Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 - 10:54 pm:
Here is the rock. The measured portion was inside the frog.
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Member:
lsweeney
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Posted on Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 - 10:54 pm:
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DrO
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Posted on Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 - 7:53 am:
Hello Laurie,
Most such injuries are not emergencies requiring immediate attention but should be looked at with an idea that if there is a puncture proper drainage needs to be established. The one exception is if this has penetrated to the navicular bursa. The article associated with this area describes this along with recommended treatments for wounds to the foot.
DrO
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babychop
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Posted on Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 - 6:18 pm:
I had a filly step on a roofing tack (it had blown off my shed after a fierce wind) thank God the vet just happened to be there when she did. Similar circumstance - his fear was that it would get infected in the same area Dr O describes. He had me put her on injectable antibiotics for 10 days and wrap her hoof (can't remember what with now, that was almost 10 years ago) with some sort of poultice, cotton, then duct tape. She was 3mos old. It was more to err on the side of caution than anything else, it would be bad if there was an infection around the coffin bone or any of the inner structures of the hoof.
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lsweeney
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Posted on Friday, Feb 10, 2012 - 10:02 pm:
Since I was at the vet for the pigeon fever issue on the other horse, I had her look at this puncture. She opened it up a little more. No antibiotics. I'm soaking twice a day in Betadine and Epsom salts and booting it.
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babychop
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Posted on Friday, Feb 10, 2012 - 11:55 pm:
Oh good! I'm glad it wasn't deep enough to warrant that, you really don't want an infection deep in the hoof... Do let us know how it turns out
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lsweeney
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Posted on Friday, Feb 17, 2012 - 12:16 pm:
Soaked it twice a day with betadine and epsom salts and then packed with a poultice and a boot for 4-5 days. So far so good.....
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vickiann
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Posted on Friday, Feb 17, 2012 - 8:42 pm:
Good news!
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