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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

The Tea Bag as a first aid tool


Approximately a month ago, at a time when all were plagued by flies and horseflies, Boss, one of our horses started showing signs of an infection of sorts in one of his eyes. It looked sore and was an obvious source of irritation to him. It just so happened that the horse dentist called over during that time and recommended I put a used, wet (obviously cold) tea bag on his eye. So without any hesitation I made myself a cuppa and started the tea bag treatment. After 3 applications, voila Boss’s eye showed a great improvement.

You may well ask why I am sharing this with you as this page is all about dogs. The answer is quite obvious, when you have a terrier, that is. Smudge, one of our two terriers just love hunting around in the hedgerows and quite often come home with thorns in her ears and yes, you guessed it, runny and sore eyes.  Two days ago the little princess promptly appeared with extremely sore eyes, more so than usual. So out came the teabags and again, voila, the treatment worked.

I am not suggesting that you ignore what you feel might be worth a trip to the vet and I will never suggest substituting veterinary treatment for layman advice. Should you however find yourself in a situation that the teabag treatment might help until such time as you can get to the vet, why not give it a go.



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