Injuries -
Preparation H - helps reduce proud flesh and encourages hair growth on wound sites.
Sugar and Iodine - mix into paste for burns and scrapes.
Diapers - place on the underside of hoof and wrap duct tape around the horse's hoof. This is great for holding a poultice in place and keeping abscesses clean. The diaper stayed on and the abscess stayed clean and was able to heal.
The best thing to use in cleaning all sorts of cuts, tears or abrasions is sterile saline solution. You should always have some saline in your first aid kit, and plenty of it, since it's the best way to clean wounds. If you've run out or are in a place where there is no saline, flush wounds out anyway with water from a hose. If there's any contact lens saline around, that will work.
The goal in cleaning the wound by flushing with clean liquid is to wash away bacteria which might otherwise cause infection, so use plenty of fluid when flushing a wound, and let the excess pour away, hopefully carrying bacteria with it to the ground and away from your horse.
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