Brewers yeast - sweetitch

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Where do you get your brewers yeast from to help combat sweetitch? Just had a very unhandled youngster come in with it, can hardly do headcollars so rugs and lotions and potions etc are out of the question....!
 
Boots, or like me try Marmite on carrots and she's not itching so badly in the past couple of days. I have the same problem with the lotions as if she smells them you cann't get within 10 feet of her.
 
Sorry, cant help with yeast but Marmite is a good one for itchy horses... if they will eat it... can be expensive though...! :rolleyes:
 
**Vanner** said:
I use gold label brewers yeast, but not for sweet itch, for digestion.
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I think the two are linked. I took on a very severe sweet itch sufferer, in rugs 24/7 even in a stable, scars to prove it. I got his diet sorted out, including weight loss, brewers yeast, magnesium and carbohydrate reduction and lo and behold the sweet itch disappeared. It didn't just get a bit better, it stopped completely. I posted on the forum about it and I am not the only one to see this result.

If more sweet itch horses were treated as laminitics then it's my impression that there would be less horses with sweet itch.
 
Quote de **Vanner** I use gold label brewers yeast, but not for sweet itch, for digestion.

I think the two are linked. I took on a very severe sweet itch sufferer, in rugs 24/7 even in a stable, scars to prove it. I got his diet sorted out, including weight loss, brewers yeast, magnesium and carbohydrate reduction and lo and behold the sweet itch disappeared. It didn't just get a bit better, it stopped completely. I posted on the forum about it and I am not the only one to see this result.

If more sweet itch horses were treated as laminitics then it's my impression that there would be less horses with sweet itch.

Spot on.
 
I think this must be the thread cptrayes refers to:

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=389045&highlight=sweet+itch&page=2

Very interesting reading thank you

I've just bought a pony with suspected sweet itch, he has been injected today to try to ease the itching so it would be good if I could act swiftly to get it under control, pony is on restricted grazing (purely because its a pony lol)so it looks like thats a start
 
cptrayes said:
I think the two are linked. I took on a very severe sweet itch sufferer, in rugs 24/7 even in a stable, scars to prove it. I got his diet sorted out, including weight loss, brewers yeast, magnesium and carbohydrate reduction and lo and behold the sweet itch disappeared. It didn't just get a bit better, it stopped completely. I posted on the forum about it and I am not the only one to see this result.

If more sweet itch horses were treated as laminitics then it's my impression that there would be less horses with sweet itch.
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MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Eliminate suger & mollasses in the diet as much as you can. (Its not called "sweet itch" for nothing). Most of the proprietory brands have it in; even Dengie Hi Fi Lite "Mollasses Free" :(
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He is only having hay! Certainly not going to be feeding him hard feed-He is unhandled completely -can hardly touch him at the moment so hard feed is totalu out the question
 
Please can I butt in? I have a lovely 5 yr old ID who is riddled with sweet itch and is on no feed whatsover atm and not very rich pasture. He had Brewers yeast and linseed when he was having feeds until late May but it didn't help. We have tried nearly everything without success.
 
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