rope burn!! help!!!!

[barebackqueen76]

ok well i was bein an idiot and tied my horse and then w/o tyin him wit a quick release knot. well i wasnt payin attention to him n some how he got the rope thorugh his front legs and then wrapped 2 or 3 times around his back leg. it was almost dark so i didnt check his legs to see if they were ok. and i didnt think nething had happened to him. well the next day i go out to fill his water trough n i sprayed him off a lil bit. then when i was rubbin him down i felt somin hard n rough on the inside of his left leg or towards his shoulder. i thought maybe a lotta bugs had bite him at first. then i looked at it and if was rope burn!! all the way across his left foreleg at the top. then i look at his back leg n there was deep rope burn on it too!!!

due to laziness on my part n the weather, i didnt take care of the burns so now they r probably infected! what do i do?? ive tried puttin a bandage on the one on his foreleg but no matter what i do it wont stay!! ive even tried duck tape!!! that didnt work either! n i wont let me put a bandage on his back leg so i jus squirted some bactine on it.

what else do i do???
after this heals. im gonna have to do a lot of work w/him to get him where i can be able to mess with his back legs.

can you ride with rope burn?

ok thanks for yalls help!
~Me

[aliw]

That rope must have been pretty long for him to be able to do that!
I would just cold hose them or put an ice pack on them to relieve any heat or swelling a few times a day. You could also put some wound cream on, like Dayson and Hewitt?

[barebackqueen76]

yea it was a 25ft long lunge line....i wanted him to eat a lot....

well it is lookin a lot better now and hes not bothered by it.

thanks

[martini55]

It's really not a good idea to tie up using a lunge line, it's just asking for trouble. If you really have to do it, then he should not be left unsupervised.