Hard Lump in Lip

[Deefa]

Harry has a hard lump in his top lip (side) about the size of a ping pong ball.
Vet has been out on thursday and has said it could be anything from a hard infection/abscess to a tumour of some sort.
He has been on antibiotics since thursday and no difference so starting to worry the worse

Anyone else had anything like this?

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Hmmmm. Surprised if vet thought it could be a tumour or an abscess coz antibx won't help either of those. Maybe they're just trying it as a test? If an abscess, it needs to be drained. Giving antibx can make the body encase the infected muck in a little pocket. It can "regroup" from this little pocket when the horse's immune system is battered from something else. Tumours are the horse's own cells so antibx won't help at all. Is the lump on the inside of the lip (ie inside the mouth) or the outside? Humans can get lumps come up on their lips and it's a strange salivary gland thing. Wonder if neds get that too? Either way, a ping pong ball size is significant and if it was me I'd ask for a referral. How long has ned had this?

 

[JanetGeorge]

Have you tried hot fomenting it? I've had two horses come up with golf-ball size lumps in the gullet in the past few weeks - they were both abcesses and the THEORY is they'd been scratching on the tops of fence posts that were a bit battered, got a splinter in, and it closed over and set up an infection. Lumps were HARD, not hot, slightly painful. Hot fomenting 3-4 times a day, for 5 minutes at a time, brought them to a head in 3-4 days and they burst (yuk!) Your chap could have been sticking his nose in bramble bushes - or rubbing his lip on a fence post??