PIONEERING MAGGOT THERAPY AT EASY HORSE CARE RESCUE CENTRE

Maggots flown in overnight from the UK have been used this week to treat Cookie, a miniature horse at the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre in Rojales.

Rod and Sue Weeding at the Centre found Cookie on waste ground in Benijofar in April 2010 in a shocking condition, suffering with severe laminitis. Since then Cookie, named so because of her strength in overcoming adversity, has been transformed. Not only has she had surgery on her front legs, severely damaged by the laminitis, she is now receiving larvae treatment in her hooves.

The larvae, supplied by Biomonde based in England and Germany are the only laboratories in Europe providing sterile maggots for the treatment of humans,

For Cookie the maggots are being used to fight an infection inside both front hooves – unfortunately exacerbated by visitors feeding Cookie treats that her system could not cope with.

The maggots provide a less aggressive form of treatment which it is hoped can reach deep into the infected tissue. Now the maggots have been transplanted into Cookie's hooves, everyone is anxiously waiting to see if they have done their job successfully. This treatment could possibly be the way forward for treating equines with similar anaerobic infections in the future

Maggots have been used in humans as a way of treating infected wounds for many years, and research has shown that wounds heal quicker than conventional medicine.

Because of the horrendous condition that some of our rescued horses are in we are using ground breaking treatment methods “says Sue Weeding co-founder “ and we are attracting and working with some of the top professional vets and specialists in Europe and America.

The Easy Horse Care Rescue centre is a registered Spanish charity with no official funding and this pioneering treatment along with all care we provide our horses, ponies and donkeys is only possible with the generosity of the public to give us donations”.

If you wish to make a donation and/or sponsor Cookie or one of her four-legged friends for as little as €5 a month, please contact the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre on Tel: 652 021 980 or via email at: rescue@easyhorsecare.net.

The Centre is open to the public every day from 13:00 -16:00 throughout the year. Sundays and Wednesdays only there are guided tours where you can meet the residents and hear their stories. Lunch and light refreshments are also available in the garden cafe. All proceeds go to support the Centre. For further information visit: www.easyhorsecare.net.

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