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Col Horrigan Australia (Verified User) Posts 5 Dogs 0 / Races 0 29 Aug 2018 09:48
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does anyone have a way of removing corns from dogs pads
Richard Gray Australia (Verified User) Posts 2231 Dogs 11 / Races 9 29 Aug 2018 10:50
Thuja tablets..they come in different strengths,get them in the health shops...3 times a day...if the corn is just starting ie a dot then the small pills 30,should help ..if they are well on go for the stronger ones....
Kevin Lindsay United Kingdom (Verified User) Posts 1420 Dogs 10 / Races 7 12 Feb 2019 12:52
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My ex racer Enchanted Halo developed corns when we brought her home from racing kennels. It is fair to say I tried every remedy I read about in an attempt to relieve her pain. Nothing was effective although we had some success with gaffer tape.
Early last November I read about a pioneering experimental flexor tendinotomy technique used to treat corns EXTERNAL LINK
I contacted Mike Guilliard in the UK and the treatment was provided here in Ireland by Denis Beary at the end of November 2019 in his Canine Treatment Centre. He treated both her corns with the surgical procedure.
I took her yesterday for her final follow up consultation and her corns have gone, she is no longer in pain and no longer hobbles on hard surfaces. There is no doubt she is a much happier dog as a consequence of this pioneering treatment.
Thomas Bambury Ireland (Verified User) Posts 69 Dogs 1 / Races 0 13 Feb 2019 21:28
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the only treatment for corns or warts is to treat them with liquid nitrogen it is the intense cold that kills them you just apply the liquid to the corn or wart for about a minute and after about ten days the wart will just fall out roots and all because every bit of it is dead there will be no bit left behind to grow again most vets wont tell you about this as they haven't the flask of nitrogen and it is only a few of them that have it the man certain to have it is an artificial insemination technican
Kevin Lindsay United Kingdom (Verified User) Posts 1420 Dogs 10 / Races 7 14 Feb 2019 22:14
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It would be good if you could share your research papers here Thomas?
Personally I'm just delighted to have my hound pain and corn free for the first time in years and is the reason I have shared the pioneering work of 2 prominent veterinarians. I'm posting so others can be informed of an option for helping their hounds.
Seeing my hound corn and pain free suggests your "only treatment for corns and warts" is misleading as I can endorse and verify a treatment that has been 100% effective in removing corns and eradicating pain in my hound..
It would be interesting to know if those who 'disagree' with my experience of the surgery have hounds that have undergone the same pioneering treatment and who are still suffering from painful corns?
Thomas Bambury Ireland (Verified User) Posts 69 Dogs 1 / Races 0 18 Feb 2019 18:42
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Kevin the qualifications I have are a lifetime of keeping all grades of greyhounds and I have met and dealt with most of the problems that entails including warts and corns I found the only thing that completely killed them wasliquid nitrogen the corns go black after a week and at about ten days they fall out roots and all my wife is a secondary teacher andpupils sometimes get verrucas much like a corn and the doctors kill them with liquid nitrogen it worked for me I would like to hear from others that had this problem the first vet to use it on one of my dogs was Johnny o Connor now sadly deceased he always had a small flask of it
Bruce Teague Australia (Verified User) Posts 2092 Dogs 0 / Races 0 20 Feb 2019 03:50
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col horrigan wrote:
does anyone have a way of removing corns from dogs pads
Amazing. Just yesterday I watched the SBS program The Supervet where a couple of local vets had been unable to pinpoint the problem with a 9 year old greyhound (a GAP) which could barely run properly because it was tip-toeing with its front legs. They suspected various things from cancer to brain damage and so sent him to Fitzpatrick.
Noel took a quick look, inspecting each leg from the toe up, as usual, and then left the room to fetch his toothbrush and toothpaste. He then scrubbed away at the toes, removing rubbish, and found the real problem - corns.
He removed the corns and the dog is now galloping happily over the pebbles on the local beach. Good as new.
Kevin Lindsay United Kingdom (Verified User) Posts 1420 Dogs 10 / Races 7 20 Feb 2019 09:27
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Thomas I wasn't asking for your experience I was asking if you had the research papers as they would be interesting.
I tried having the corns frozen and like all the other treatments I was recommended or read about online, they came back. I could list everything I tried but the only marginally successful treatment I found was covering the corns with gaffer tape.
The reason I posted was to share a relatively new and simple surgical intervention that is proving very successful in the treatment of corns. This treatment was until recently only available in the UK but is now available in Ireland which is where my bitch was successfully treated.
For my part I'm just really pleased to have my bitch corn and pain free for the first time in years. The treatment has worked and the corns have gone. The follow up study is proving very positive. EXTERNAL LINK
Jason Caley Australia (Verified User) Posts 385 Dogs 6 / Races 0 23 Feb 2019 11:41
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Hi Col - I've been lucky in only ever having two dogs with corns. In the first instance, I was able to soak his paw pad in salty water and pluck it out with tweezers. He was good as gold a week later. Small bleeding at removal and I did this while it was still suspended in the saline solution.
In the second instance it was a real bugger and I used a commercial off the shelf wart remover (the freezing type like 'Wart Off'). It came out after two applications spaced out between two days. First one started to get it to peel and second time did the job.
So limited experience with them but both times these techniques worked. Let us know how you get on.
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