Bumps on back - any ideas?!

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My mare has recently got some small pea sized bumps on her back, first one or two but a week later four on each side?!
They are either side of her spine, a couple of inches from her spine, and approx in the area the cantle would sit on her if she had a saddle on.
They are not painful and can't take a pic as don't show up. Only notice them when stroke her back.
Suggestions so far are sweat rash or reaction to washing powder or something... any other ideas or agreement with suggestions!? Never had them before, only in last few weeks.
Thanks!
 
My friends gelding has some she is treating with steriod cream and aloe vera.The vet said they were ingrowing hairs ,they disappear if you get them early enough but if left are harder to budge.She clips so she can treat them and feel and see them early enough but clipping can aggrivate.
 
Thanks! She has never been clipped tho so could it be ingrown hairs? Seems slightly suspicious they are both sides in the same place on her back!
 
george occasionally gets these....strangely enough, tends to be in winter more? they feel quite hard and you can press your thumb onto them very hard and he doesnt flinch. No ridden issues either.

anyway..... his numnahs etc are all kept scrupulously clean so when i was getting my yearly saddle check I asked the saddle fitter (who is very good!) about them. My dressage saddle has cair and i was paranoid it could be this causing them. He said they were absolutely nothing to worry about. More than likely ingrown hair and basically said if it aint broke, dont fix it!
 
Dante gets them.... he has one near his withers that's always been there since we bought him, and gets them around his saddle/girth area usually in the winter. They go though, eventually, and don't cause him any issues! When we asked the vet he said they were nothing to worry about :)
 
My mare got these recently just after I got new saddle. My instructor said it was either pressure sores from ill-fitting saddle or skin reaction to washing powder on numnah. Powder must be non-bio, so I checked and my powder at home and it is non-bio, so that wasn't the prob (plus I've been using the same powder for a year and never has skin reaction). Have had saddle fitted and was told they should go away in time.

I would vote pressure sores, check your saddle fit.
Hope that helps!
 
Lady had these! I thought they were fly bites for a bit (sensitive girl)
Physio thinks they are ingrown hairs/sweat glands. (she reccomended irish steaming and keeping numnahs spotlessly clean)

Junior emergency Vet (out for another horse and not my usual) didnt have a clue! :rolleyes:
 
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Happy Hunter said:
Lady had these! I thought they were fly bites for a bit (sensitive girl)
Physio thinks they are ingrown hairs/sweat glands. (she reccomended irish steaming and keeping numnahs spotlessly clean)

Junior emergency Vet (out for another horse and not my usual) didnt have a clue! :rolleyes:
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what is irish steaming?
 
My boy had these last winter in exactly the same place. Didn't bother him in the slightest even when I pressed on them and never bothered him when he was being ridden. I racked my brain trying to think of something that could have caused them (was thinking along the lines of feed mainly). I'd started him on Codlivine a couple of weeks previously so thought perhaps it was that, so I stopped it and they disappeared! Haven't put him back on it and they haven't reappeared so I assumed it was that. :)
 
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Have they got worse? Is it possible that now she is so beautifully fluffy the numnah is rubbing on that bit of her back? I don't think its pressure sores as its too far back - not where her saddle would fit...

Does she seem uncomfortable with them at all? Are they hot?

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Collagen granuloma, I have a pony with a few.

Not normally cause for concern if not causing any trouble.

Quote from an article I found: ' Troublesome nodules can be removed surgically fairly easily, but it is usually best to leave them alone.'
 
lucy007 said:
Collagen granuloma, I have a pony with a few.

Not normally cause for concern if not causing any trouble.

Quote from an article I found: ' Troublesome nodules can be removed surgically fairly easily, but it is usually best to leave them alone.'
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Ah that's what they are called! I was trying to think of the name :D

My horse had one a couple of years ago and I asked the vet, he said it was nothing to worry about, some horses get them. He has just developed another one now.
 
My boy has them in his saddle area & they are sweat bumps/blocked sweat glands..when he was on box rest he didn't have them it's just when he is worked a lot..someone told me to put a fresh numnah on him every 2 days & hibiscrub them until they are gone..worked a treat!!
 
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