Help with sarcoids...

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ajn1610

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My mare has Sarcoids, I knew this when I bought her. She has a couple of occult ones inside her thigh and some of the lump type, one on her chest and two on her mid line about 4" behind the girth, that were successfully treated with Liverpool cream two years ago and have been left as hairless scar tissue. The one that was on her chest has got a new small lump on it about the size of a split lentil.
I know a little bit about them because we had Dr K as a guest lecturer when I was at Uni. I'm aware that success rate declines with each treatment and as this is so small and not anywhere that interferes with tack etc. I'm in two minds about whether to have the Vet out to try again. On the one hand I know that it's best to get them when they are small but I'm worried about 'angering' it and making it worse or spreading it was we head into fly season! I was wondering about trying a natural remedy I've read people on here having used Thuji (sp?) or something?
I'd be interested to hear experiences of anyone who has had them reoccur. Ahh the joys of owning a warty pony!
 
I used black treacle on my boys sarcoid, worked a treat, gone within a month. Also worked really well at keeping the flys off and making it worse :)
 
One of my son's polo ponies had a nasty sarcoid behind its ear - I have some pictures of when I first had the horse and a month after I started treating the sarcoid but haven't a clue how to upload them. I started out using Camrosa which definitely had some reaction and then used Thuja alongside - tablets which you are not supposed to touch so have to feed them to the horse within a piece of apple or something without physically touching them - not sure which treatment actually worked but the rather nasty sarcoid got worse - looked horrible - grew a bit and then we banded it and it dropped off and there is now a small hairless patch there and nothing has grown back - don'tknow if that's helpful or not - can email you the photos of the "before and during" if you want unless you can tell me how to upload them onto here!! Good luck
 
there is a school of thought that you can sort of 'suffocate' them with vaseline, that that's all camrosa etc do. a friend swears she got rid of 1 with axle grease, trying out this theory!
so, i'd try vaseline... it's not going to burn, it's not going to do anything other than moisturise the surrounding skin, and perhaps 'suffocate' the chuffing thing...
thuja never worked with my mare but i know some people rate it.
otherwise, Newmarket Bloodroot Ointment is my potion of choice, worked a charm on my girl's.
 
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