Regrow hair on scar

[Stacie]

Suggestions for a cream to regrow hair on a scar-like injured area?

I have a yearling with a penny sized thickened area on her pastern from a gouge type injury she got as a baby (I think a corner of a stall mat dug into her leg and gouged out a chunk of flesh. ewww) Anyway, the scar looks more like a callus than a scar... like thickened hairless skin and it changes appearance from week to week.
Since it seems to be still be trying to do something other than be a scar, I thought I might still be able to get it to grow back as real skin if I put the right cream on it.

[lindasp62]

Not sure of how serious a scar you are talking about, but I have had luck with Corona growing hair back.

[Simkie]

Cream doesn't breakdown scars--massage does. Use whatever cream you like, but rub it in well.

[lolalola]

Hemorroid cream, like Anusol, will grow hair back on scars. Really.

[gottagrey]

There is this stuff I think it's made by Equitek - Hair-rebuilder. It smells like a Pina Colada. I've had pretty good luck w/ it. My horse has a scar on his face from when he was shipped here - didn't work on that but did work on his tail (which he rubbed a huge clump out - from shipping to US) and on blanket rubs. Depending on the scar -hair might not ever grow back..

[Lieslot]

The only product I've had luck with is "Veterinus Derma Gel".

I've used it an open sarcoid wound (after it sloughed off) and worked brilliant no white hairs.

[the_other_mother]

I have heard Vitamin E capsules, break them open and rub it into the skin. Use several everyday is what I was told. I tried it for a few days but honestly, it was kind of a drag opening up the capsules, etc so I opted to buy some of that grooming spray and matched the color and covered it up that way. I think Shapelys makes it.

[BoomerButt]

Vet Cream! Best stuff ever! 99% of the time it helps to regrow the hair in the same color as before, not while.

Good Luck!

[curiousgirl]

Love, love, love Handy Salve--it works miracles!

[curiousgirl]

Hemorroid cream, like Anusol, will grow hair back on scars. Really.

Do you use Anusol on little cuts and scrapes, etc?

[rcloisonne]

If it's true scar tissue, nothing you apply topically will help. Scar tissue contains no hair follicles. Can't grow hair without them.

[Maryanne Nicpon]

There is a product out there called Hair-Grow-Back. I would not recommend it unless your horse's natural color is screaming orange, because that is the color of the hair that grows back. I used it on a bay and a black and was quite surprised by what grew.

[Seven-up]

Not sure of how serious a scar you are talking about, but I have had luck with Corona growing hair back.

I second this. Corona is my favorite thing to use for regrowing hair. I put it on every scratch, and I usually have hair coming back in within a week or so. It sometimes even works on older scars.

[Summerwood]

There is a cream called SSD cream- silver sulfadiazine...that is made to treat bedsores and burn victims. It is a prescription, but works extremely well on hard to heal areas. If hair is going to grow there, this stuff will make it happen. Ask your vet. I always keep a jar around just in case. We used it to treat a foal with multiple brown recluse bites on his back where the skin sloughed off in a huge area and all came back with hair except a small area.

[deltawave]

Whether it will or whether it won't depends on if the hair follicles were damaged with the original injury, nothing more. You can't make hair grow where there are no follicles, and you can't make follicles appear (or disappear) with any sort of cream. :) Focus on good healing, the hair thing is sort of up to chance.

[BuddyRoo]

Ditto Delta.

Lower limb healing of lacerations typically occurs by epithelialization. This means that only the upper level of skin cells (epithelial cells) fill in over the granulation tissue. Because the hair follicles and pigment cells lie deeper in the dermis, if the wound damaged those tissues, there will never be hair after epithelialization.

More minor lacerations and abrasions grow hair back white--the pigment cells got damaged but the hair follicles didn't.

No amount of goop, massage or any thing else aside from a skin graft will grow hair again or grow colored hair again depending on the cells that were damaged in the initial injury.

ETA: Upper limb and body healing of lacerations/wounds occurs by contraction which is where good healthy skin tissue actually migrates to close up the wound. That's why you can see horses who had major injuries--like a chest ripped open by barbed wire--but there's very little scarring noticeable and the hair grows just fine.

[meehankk]

MTG!!!! it is amazing.... besindes smelling like BBQ sause. For me it has... cured Rain rot, hair grow back on scars and minor cuts. tail growth... its just amazing... the one downside is the smell and oilyness... but for all the good it does those semm trivial!