Homemade First-Aid Recipes for Your Horse
In the February 2008 issue of Horse & Rider magazine we offered a chart of handy tools to add to your horse-care kit. Stock up some of the following supplies, then print out these homemade first-aid recipes and keep them with your first-aid kit for quick reference.
Saline Solution
Mix in clean container until salt is completely dissolved.
Double-strength saline solution
Mix in clean container until salt is completely dissolved.
Scab softener
Combine all in large container. Do not close tightly. Mixture will bubble slowly and expand and can cause a messy explosion.
Epsom salt soaking solution
Mix until salts are dissolved. Soak affected body part by immersing in a container (such as for a hoof), or by applying a wet dressing.
Poultices
1. Mix Epsom salts with enough warm water to make a paste.
2. Mix 1/2 cup Epsom salts + 4 cups miller's bran; mix with enough water to make a paste.
3. Kaopectate® mixed with enough flour or miller's bran to make a paste.
4. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) mixed with enough witch hazel to make a paste.
5. "Sugardine": Table sugar mixed with enough Betadine® to make a paste.
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Leg sweat
Mix Furacin® liquid or ointment with an equal amount of medical-grade DMSO.
Recipes from Hands-On Horse Care From Horse & Rider, by Karen E.N. Hayes, DVM, MS; Edited by Thomas C. Bohanon, DVM, MS, and Sue M. Copeland.
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