Help with Mudrash

[Roasted Chestnuts]

Hi folks

Looking for a bit of advice on mudrash. I am jyst about to get the vet out as his leg is swollen but giving a treatment I have a chance to work first.

Kias leg is swollen (looks like a melon) he is sound in walk and canter but slightly short in trot.

I am assuming this is due to most of the sores being located around his ergot and maybe the skin stretching is causing pain in trot. He is currently on box rest treated with a cream from vets no turnout and on a clean straw bed mucked out twice a day to keep it dry (he is a minger)

Can anyone recommend me a set of waterproof turnout socks he destroyed my last pair. In Hardy chaps he is a size four so dont know what this would be in other makes.

Also can anyone recommend other than pig oil and undder cream a way of preventing this other than the turnout socks??

Just looking for ways I ahvent thought of really.

Nikki xxxx

 

[misspiff]

I've used NAF mud fever cream as a mud repellant and also the NAF supplement. Horse had her first case of mud rash this summer (never been kept in muddy fields before) and it cleared up pretty quickly, although the fields also dried up. I've kept her on the supplement going in to winter in the hope it will help!

 

[teddyt]

Avoid excess wetting. Let mud dry and brush it off.

nettex muddy marvel is the best barrier cream because it is thick and unlike udder cream/naf etc it stays on.

The leg is swelling due to lack of movement. If the field is dry then i would turn out to help get the circulation going. The only reason you have to box rest in the depths of winter is because wet just softens the skin further so the bacteria can get in.