[QUOTE=ladymcts;8181533]
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![/QUOTE]
Some horses are allergic to chlorhexadine (Nolvasan)…I know because I have one. My mare is uber sensitive and gets contact dermatitis immediately from it the minute it touches her. Found this out treating a wound like you did with Nolvasan creamand also when someone used one of the Equyss products on her (which contains chlorhexadine, which I found out the hard way).
She was a mess – develops a “hive”, then pus, then loses hair where it has touched.
My vet knows never to use the blue stuff on her, as does the dentist, who soaks her instruments in it. It’s awful. We only use betadine on her.
