Best way to treat mud fever?

frazzled said:
Have been dealing with this for the last month. It has finally healed. What I did was wash the legs with antiseptic and dried thoroughly(just the once).Was applying flamozine morning and evening. Keeping legs scrupiously dry. He has been in at night or on very wet days to try and maintain dry legs. Then after some research tried athletes foot spray and that has been amazing. Have alternated that with either sudocreme or flammozine. Our boy obviously had some fungal infection going on as well which is why the athletes foot spray worked so well. Sometimes I think you have to approach things from a variety of angles to get the best result.
It is important to keep treating until every tiny bit of it has gone otherwise it just reoccurs. I will keep treating for a few days after it looks all clear just to ensure no reinfection.
This was all done after the vet had checked it out and with his ok!
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I agree!
 
My girl had this last year so bad that the scabs were literally covering her lower leg. We rubbed in udder cream/sudocrem morning and night, picked off what scabs we could then rinsed the leg with diluted hibiscrub and toweled dry. We also found some little breathable, stretchable boots that cover the whole lower leg and even go over the hoof a little bit. That way she could still be out but her legs would stay dry. Cleared up after about 2 weeks with intensive treatment.
 
My girl had this last year so bad that the scabs were literally covering her lower leg. We rubbed in udder cream/sudocrem morning and night, picked off what scabs we could then rinsed the leg with diluted hibiscrub and toweled dry. We also found some little breathable, stretchable boots that cover the whole lower leg and even go over the hoof a little bit. That way she could still be out but her legs would stay dry. Cleared up after about 2 weeks with intensive treatment.
 
My arab mare had terrible mud fever, I washed, rinsed, and thoughrally dried morning and night, put no cream on until turned out next day, then used udder cream, it cleared up in about two weeks. Have used udder cream as a barrier since when wet, no more problems so far.
 
Agree with all who say leave scabs; and I work in flower of sulphur into udder cream and use daily. Hair grows back and scabs come away naturally with each application until all have gone. Also rub over larger area than scabby bits. I find best uddercream is Equimins. Don't know why, just found by trial and error. Trouble is all horses react differently so it often is trial and error.
 
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