Traditional remedy of local application of raw garlic on the metacarpal region of horse for reduction of tissue inflammation: extensive skin injury creation

Subject Areas : Large Animal Diseases

Abolfazl  Barzegar Bafrouei ¹ (Faculty of Veterinary/ Shahrekord University)
Moosa  Javdani ² (Faculty of veterinary/ shahrekord university)
Zahra  Nikousefat ³ (Faculty of Veterinary/ Razi University)
Jahangir  Modaresi ⁴ (Faculty of veterinary/ Shahrekord university)
Jamshid  Kabiri ⁵ (Faculty of Veterinary/ Shahrekord University)

Received: 2018-10-29 Accepted : 2019-03-12 Published : 2019-05-22

Keywords: horse, Raw garlic, Local application, Skin injury,

Abstract :

A Kurdish 6 year-stallion referred to the Veterinary Clinic of ShahreKord University with complaint of enormous skin and subcutaneous tissue injuries and ulcer in dorsal and palmar side of both metacarpal regions. Based on the patient's history, walking of the stallion on the tarmac path immediately after shoeing caused severe swelling of metacarpal region and traditional remedy were performed by dressing crashed fresh garlic on the affected area for 3 days. Clinical examination and radiographic evaluation showed vast skin and subcutaneous wound and injury, tissue necrosis, massive granulation tissue formation and metacarpal bone involvement. In laboratory investigation of hemogram, severe leukocytosis along with mild left shift, toxic neutrophil and fibrinogen increase were observed. Wound management consisting of second intension of wound healing like as debridement of granulated and necrotic tissue and lastly, dressing the ulcers with local silver sulfadiazine, NSAID prescription and stall resting were ordered. Spite of many advantageous of fresh garlic as an herbal treatment, there were rarely documents of skin burn due to local application of raw garlic in human and the present study would be counted as the first report in horse after traditional remedy.