The site was flushed copiously with a 1:250 F10SC solution every other day and a flamazine bandage applied. Painkillers and antibiotics were also given. Two weeks later all treatment was stopped and the protruding laminae were covered with Equilox. The mare is sound and was discharged under supervision for the Equilox to be maintained in place.

A cross breed gelding was admitted on with grossly enlarged melanomas on right hind semimembranous semitendinous region. Three large 6-7cm growths were removed and could only be partially closed due to the tension on the surrounding skin. The open wounds were flushed every day with a 1:500 F10SC solution. They closed within two weeks by second intention without infection or inflammation.

Case 8

Old thoroughbred broodmare was admitted with a swollen right front knee. She was put onto antibiotic treatment and a drain was put in surgically under local sedation. Her knee was flushed every other day with a 1:250 F10SC solution and kept bandaged. After ten days the swelling and heat and discharge was gone. The hole closed and she was discharged and is still carrying a foal.

In the midst of a severe Rhodococcus outbreak a periosteal elevation was performed on a young foal on the lawn outside the hospital. A 1:250 F10SC solution was used in and around the periosteal as well as on the instruments.

The foal recovered without complications or secondary infections.

When attending to wound management cases it is routine practice to keep instruments and suture material in a 1:250 F10SC solution until needed.

F10 Germicidal Wound Spray with Insecticide was routinely applied post operatively to all wound sites and for the treatment of large open wounds closing by second intention. In addition to providing an effective antiseptic barrier and fly repellant it seems to prevent or significantly decrease the amount of proud flesh formation.

A TB cross gelding was admitted with a fracture and a supurating fistulous tract to the right dorsal frontal sinus. The wound was shaved and cleaned and since there was no sequestrum visible on radiographs, the wound was penetrated with a large bore jelco and flushed with a 1:250 F10SC solution every day for two weeks until the discharge was clear, during which time appropriate antibiotics were given. The wound closed by itself in two weeks and the horse was discharged with an uneventful recovery. No surgery was necessary.

A young Irish Draught mare was brought in from the veld, with a draining fistulous tract from the dorsal frontal sinus and a purulent nasal discharge. On x-ray examination there was a sequestrum 3 x 2.8cm in diameter, in the dorsal frontal sinus, that was removed surgically. Because of the purulent exudate from that sinus, a drain was placed surgically into the sinus cavity. The sinus cavity was flushed every day once a day with a 1:250 F10SC solution. The discharge decreased dramatically over the next 2 weeks and the drain was taken out and the nasal cavity still flushed with 1:500 F10SC solution until the wound closed by second intention.

Three mares with retained placentas (>12 hrs duration) were admitted. A slow IV infusion of Fentocin was administered and the placentas removed using rectal massage. The uterus was flushed with a 3 litre solution of sterile saline mixed with 1:300 F10SC in 2 of the mares and a 1:250 F10SC in the third. Excess solution was "massaged out" rectally.

All three mares subsequently conceived and one was confirmed pregnant after her foal heat covering.

A severe outbreak of Rhodococcus equine was successfully managed by applying a 1:250 solution of F10SC on a daily basis in an aerosol mist spray/fog using an electrically operated atomizer to cover all stable walls and create a standing fog. In addition a solution of 1:250 F10SC was used to wash clean water troughs and feed buckets daily.

No new cases were reported after the fogging and disinfection routines were implemented even although during this time the horses were kept mixed in both stables and paddocks and randomly rotated in the stables each night.

The F10 products mentioned above are effective, non toxic on open wounds and because of their versatility I will continue not only to use them but I believe will continue to find more and more applications for their use.

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