| Your Comments and Suggestions |
November 12, 2009
by Bonnie Davis
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As usual, you
guys have a wagon load of ideas for adding to a first aid kit, adding to saddle
bags or putting on tack room shelves. Along with the obvious were some
really good ideas, comments and suggestions.
Lots of folks said to
check out Walmart for first aid supplies. Sterile cotton gauze pads can be
found 50% cheaper in Walmart than what one may pay for at a tack shop or from
your vet. (Me, I keep a couple boxes in the tack room. As long as
it's sealed, it's still sterile for man or beast.)
Epsom salts was
the number one add-to-first-aid-kit. One gal said she had individual packs
with two cups in each for an instant hot water soaking. Another used a
disposable diaper, added a wet epsom salt paste to it and used as a 'dry'
bandage for insect and infection wounds. (Thought that was really good and
I'm going to add that idea to my memory banks.)
Bonnie S. in
Maryland suggested "eye drops. I've often gotten some irritating something
or other in an eye out on the trail, squished gnats are the worst! The
single use vials of dry eye lubricating drops, non-medicated which will fit into
a first aid kit easily or I sometimes carry a 1 ounce bottle of saline drops to
flush an eye free of debris."
Kathy had a whole list "......small
bungee cords (great for tourniquets), molasses (encourages horses to drink
water), sugar (draws moisture out of a wound and is also an antiseptic), duct
tape [DOESN'T EVERY HORSE OWNER IN THE WORLD HAVE A ROLL OR TWO OF DUCT TAPE IN
TOWING VEHICLE, TRAILER AND TACK ROOM????], pliers/wire
cutters......"
Along with keeping little dabs of stuff in 'em like
I do, Rafael uses "old pill bottles for stick matches, cotton swabs soaked with
parafin wax. These become my fire starter if it's wet
out."
Terri in Florida says a "......good quality, thick, leather
glove or two for when your horse gets into prickly pears. It was very hard
to grip them as there is nothing to hold on to except the long needles!
Here in Florida they are quite abundant in certain types of soil and are very
hard to see when riding near tall grasses, etc." [I NEVER KNEW FLORIDA HAD
PRICKLY PEARS......]
Barbara in Fremont, Ca. (HI, BARBARA. WE
MUST BE NEIGHBORS SINCE I LIVE IN FREMONT TOO.) ".....Equi-Spaz for my horse
which had a painful gas colic episode. It is a paste administered like a
dewormer and within 45 minutes he was comfortable......"
Montana
Barb, "A syringe -- along with saline to flush out cuts, small deep
wounds....."
There were more replies but I'll save some of them for
later.......and next week, I'd like to get an idea of what you guys use
something else for. It's an item every horse owner has and uses -- but I'll
tell you more about it next week. Till then, stay dry and
don't forget to check UNDER those blankets if you've taken to winter
blanketing.
Bonnie
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| Peroxide & DMSO mixed together. Enough DMSO to make the solution hot (in a small squirt bottle) excellent for wound large or small, also prevent proud flesh.
Sugar & iodine (sugardine). |
| You might try one of the family dollar, or dollar general, their prices are cheaper than walmart. |
| Posted by littlehorse |
| Bonnie, what great ideas. I copied and pasted some of them. Great blog, and curious about next week. Cheryl |
| Posted by Cheryl |
| Disposable diapers make a great dressing to keep wounds dry.
They absorb and lock away drainage which speeds healing, in my experience. |
| Posted by Eleanor Vilppu |
| A shipping boot turned upside down is a good way to hold ice packs in place. |
| Posted by Larry |
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