You can get Corona from a Tack shop or any place where they sell things for large animals, ie, horses or cattle. It is lanolin based ointment with a powerful antibiotic and beeswax mixed in. Your wounds will heal with little scarring because the area will remain soft and your skin heals quickly. You could literally put this stuff on and then go clean up a broken sewer line and not get infected. I do not cover wounds with anything--even though I have drawn some stares at times. A few years back my doctor told me I missed out on five stitches on a finger slash that was half healed by the time he saw it - woodcarving.
Once you find a Tack shop you can also get other brand name medicines you use in the everyday treatment of cuts, bruises and other malady's for less than half of what you pay in your local drug store.
Of course the bottles and tubes are not FDA approved even though some are identical to what your local Walgreens carries. I figure if a vet working on a million dollar horse trusts what is inside, it is all right for me. Of course some of the quantities may be a little larger than you are used to.
Disclaimer:
I am not recommending you buy or use these products, only relating my personal experience with them.
You can get Corona from a Tack shop or any place where they sell things for large animals, ie, horses or cattle. It is lanolin based ointment with a powerful antibiotic and beeswax mixed in. Your wounds will heal with little scarring because the area will remain soft and your skin heals quickly. You could literally put this stuff on and then go clean up a broken sewer line and not get infected. I do not cover wounds with anything--even though I have drawn some stares at times. A few years back my doctor told me I missed out on five stitches on a finger slash that was half healed by the time he saw it - woodcarving.
Once you find a Tack shop you can also get other brand name medicines you use in the everyday treatment of cuts, bruises and other malady's for less than half of what you pay in your local drug store.
Of course the bottles and tubes are not FDA approved even though some are identical to what your local Walgreens carries. I figure if a vet working on a million dollar horse trusts what is inside, it is all right for me. Of course some of the quantities may be a little larger than you are used to.
Disclaimer:
I am not recommending you buy or use these products, only relating my personal experience with them.
You left out that one pesky side effect: craving grass and hay.
You left out that one pesky side effect: craving grass and hay.
Corona is apparently used by some people in rural areas as a diaper rash cream. I found a cite in the journal Indiana Medicine* where a 10 month old baby girl started puberty because of the estrogen in Corona ointment. The baby's enlarged breasts and pubic hair went away after the mother started using something approved for human use on her child. There's probably a farmer's daughter joke in there somewhere, but I'll let somebody else tackle that subject.
Thanks for all those who've weighed in on this topic. The discussion has been helpful. I removed the plastic covering late last night and the wounds look really good -- no signs of infection or anything. They look much better than my control, an uncovered wound near my knee.
Once you find a Tack shop you can also get other brand name
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for less than half of what you pay in your local drug store.
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Of course the bottles and tubes are not FDA approved even though
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are identical to what your local Walgreens carries. I figure if a
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working on a million dollar horse trusts what is inside, it is all right for me. Of course some of the quantities may be a little
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than you are used to.
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I am not recommending you buy or use these products, only relating
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personal experience with them.
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You left out that one pesky side effect: craving grass and hay.
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Hey, roughage is good... BS
Hey, I'll recommend that while you're in 'horse country" you pick up almost any [censored] Francis book. He's prolific. Once you get hooked you'll be up until 2am finishing a book and you won't be able to roll out in time to ride with the club. I think the protagonists (always a 30-something guy, tall for a jockey, usually orphaned and often wealthy) sometimes swing a leg over a top tube.
--Karen M. once met someone who lived in Cheltenham; "the Gold Cup!" I said
