There is a big difference in price, anyone know what the difference is in what they are made off? TIA.
Nolvasan is chlorhexidine. It’s a brand name.
I’m also curious, since I have a large bottle of human chlorahexadine oral cleanser given to me after oral surgery. I want to use it on horse boo boos…
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I would be careful with the oral cleanser. It has flavorings and stuff that might attract flies.
Nolvasan is brand name and you are paying for the brand. The important thing is the ingredient and the percentage. The color (which can vary by brand) also indicates the concentration. Most common is blue or green for 2% and pink for 4%, but always read the label. There is also “scrub” (soap added) or “solution” (water like consistency), so that is something to look for on the labels as well.
Both are good. You pay extra to get Nolvasan’s salve with the inert binders that keep it on the wound longer.
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Not if you use the original flavor of Listerine. It repels flies and fleas and ticks.
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Not if you use the original flavor of Listerine. It repels flies and fleas and ticks.[/QUOTE]
…which isn’t at all what we’re talking about in a thread about nolvasan vs chlorhexidine? 
Can you still get the nolvasan cream/salve?? I have not been able to find it for the last few years. I am down to my last little bit and was going to purchase some generic chlorhexidine cream.
I think the ointment is still around.
Was Nolvasan the blue creamy stuff that smelled like Fruit Loops?
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Yes, I love the smell of that stuff and it kind of dried waxy after a while so it always covered abrasions well.
Yep, Chlorhexidine is the generic name for the brand name Nolvassan. It is more potent than betadine in killing bugs. Look at the concentration to see what you are dealing with.
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Yes, it is. I just received 2, 8oz jars (2%). Ordered it from Amazon. Package arrived within 2 days.
I can’t provide a link from my phone. Just google: “chlorhexidine ointment”.
ETA: maybe it’s just me but contrary to popular belief, chlorhexidine stings/burns. I have several slow healing leg ulcers (prednisone/Lupus related) and tried the above ointment on them. Wowzer! I had to wash it off immediately. Burned like a mother and left the surrounding skin sore and bright red for a couple of days.
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ETA: maybe it’s just me but contrary to popular belief, chlorhexidine stings/burns. I have several slow healing leg ulcers (prednisone/Lupus related) and tried the above ointment on them. Wowzer! I had to wash it off immediately. Burned like a mother and left the surrounding skin sore and bright red for a couple of days.[/QUOTE]
You beat me to it! About three years ago, my gelding started to develop hock sores. He was on pasture 24/7, so it wasn’t anything I could fix easily in terms of where he was getting them. All winter long I kept putting this Novalsan cream on his sore spot and it kept getting worse and worse. And his attitude was getting worse and worse about me doing anything back there. This is a really sweet horse who NEVER kicks, but he would get dancy prancy and throw his leg away from me to try keeping me from working back there.
Finally one day I was putting it on and had a cut on my own finger. Owie! Gosh dangit, I can’t believe it took such a thing for me to finally get a clue that my horse was trying to tell me something important! Thinking back on it, the chlor hex was actually making the whole situation even worse, because I think he was going out to pasture and trying to get the stuff off, grinding the wound down even further.
Once I switched to a milder treatment (green gal salve), it cleared up in about 3 weeks and he’s not had hock sores again since!
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I’m also curious, since I have a large bottle of human chlorahexadine oral cleanser given to me after oral surgery. I want to use it on horse boo boos…
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The oral Chlorhexadine Gluconate is not quite the same. Wikipedia does a nice job of telling you about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorhexidine
I am looking at A) chlorhexadine solution… 1 gal is $12.95
B) Nolvasan sol… 1 gal is $69.00
C) Dermachlor sol… 16oz is $12.24 = $98.00/ gal.
I think they are all the same thing, but I want to be sure. There is a big price difference. If these are all the same product, I would like to buy (A).
Thanks to all, for sharing your knowledge, and thanks Merrygoround, the Wiki link helped.
Buy A.
Barn here buys it by the gallon, and uses it diluted for wound rinse, and undiluted to spray on hair coat for rainrot prevention, particularly this year with drizzly cool days.
Make sure which type of chlorhexadine you get. Nolvasan S is chlorhexadine diacetate and intended for surface and premises disinfection. Nolvasan scrub uses chlorhexadine acetate. I think most non-Fort Dodge branded chlorhexadine products are chlorhexadine gluconate. I haven’t seen Nolvasan-brand ointment for three or four years now.
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The big gallon works, just make sure to dilute it properly. I cannot imagine spraying it full strength on a horse! The dilution ratio is just a couple Cc’s in my entire spray bottle of water.
