Posted: 28th April 2014 | Back to news feed
Back in April 2013 when Milton Keynes-based rider, Charlotte Woolhead, and her sister, Ellie, went down the yard to fetch the horses in to go hacking, they were faced with a horrific scene.
Dancer, Charlotte’s 13-year-old ex-race horse was standing in a pool of blood, resting a back leg which was gaping wide open. Although he was standing still and waiting to be fetched in very calmly, Charlotte believed he had somehow got caught on the wire fence.
Said Charlotte: “I was horrified. I think I even screamed! My sister was great - she was on the phone straight away and our local vet was there within 20 minutes. I was completely distraught at the thought I would lose Dancer as his injury looked so bad.”
“Mum and dad came rushing down and vet, Elaine Horan, told us that we should take him to Blueberry Farm to get him x-rayed and seen by a specialist veterinary surgeon. I was so distressed I passed out on the way to the centre. Luckily Dancer was calm and showed positive signs, putting his hoof down and bearing some weight.”
“At Blueberry Farm we met vets Gavin Hamer and Cedric Chan. Dancer was then sedated and x-rayed which showed a clean, sliced wound and Cedric talked us through some options for treatment.”
“He recommended using Equi-Med Ag wound dressing with the activated carbon silver fabric, which, until then, I had never heard of. Cedric was very confident this would do the job and help his wound heal well, so we agreed to go down that route without the need for skin grafts and minimal debriding. He cleaned Dancer’s wound and tidied it up before dressing the wound with Equi-Med Ag.”
Dancer’s wound took just over five months to heal and was signed off from the vets in September 2013.
Added Charlotte: “We were originally told that it would take over a year for a wound like Dancer’s to heal completely, but with the Equi-Med Ag wound dressing the results were much quicker. I truly believe that without wound dressing and the constant support from Elaine and Gavin Dancer’s leg wouldn’t have healed so well and so quickly.”
Charlotte and Dancer are now enjoying hacking out together and will be working towards some endurance rides, along with some show jumping and cross country events this season.
For more information on all of the Equi-Med Ag products, how they work and what other ailments they can be used for please visit www.EquiMedAg.co.uk or call on 0191 5118323 or 0777 5577165.
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