How are your leukocytoclastic vasculitis horses getting on?

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mightymammoth

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My horse is just starting to have a flare up, usually starts in may.

Finding lots of little scabs and treating it with acqueos cream (sp). Trield filta bac but that just flares it up as does sudacrem. Thinking of trying a sun cream suitable for people that psoriasis and eczema and it will therefore hopefully be very gentle.
 
Try Doublebase gel for moisturising, not cheap but much better pH balance than Aqueous cream, helps with itching as it has myristate in it, also no preservatives that can cause sensitisation.
 
Well I'm trying the 'suncream before it gets too sunny' coupled with the 'FGS, don't touch the lumps' approach again. I'll let you know how it went at the end of the summer.
 
which sun cream do you use faracat? It's a pain of a condition and when your on livery like I am it's a case of trying to do the best you can. I would love to find out what causes it. Hes a itchy type horse (has seasonal RAO as well) summer is always the worst time of year with one thing or another!
 
Whatever I can get for sensitive skin in the sale.

Do you feed alfalfa? Cutting that out definitely seems to have helped my boy.
 
My lad is doing ok, I dare not put anything on his legs that is oil or cream. His legs healed completely over winter and through the winter I used Johnsons Baby Lotion (pink bottle). I had spent a small fortune on treatments over the summer that had failed. He could not have steroids as he is cushinoid. In October I was in dire straits about what the winter held for him. His legs had started to improve but he has to live how he demands to live and that is in his own paddock with a barn. He puts himself to bed at dusk and stays in on a rubber floor with a shavings bed at one end. He goes out at dawn unless it is raining and if it is he stays in bed. If i shut him in or out all hell breaks loose so he was going to get muddy legs through the winter.

I kept the baby lotion routine going through the winter and he kept improving. Spring came and he wore his UV boots from mid March. I was worried his legs might get too warm but so far so good. I do use baby powder inside the boots which, so far, is working well. There are still odd flaky bits of skin that come off when I check his legs. I am just holding my breath that he does not have a flare up, I fear it would be the end of him if he does.
 
Both mine went down with it last summer which was strange, not to mention expensive. Eventually the leave it alone approach, plus the arrival of winter, got rid. No sign of it as yet, though no doubt now I've said it, it'll appear. Vet did say they can overcome it and never have another episode so I am hoping he is right. They are grazing a different field this year in an effort to eliminate causes. Otherwise it's going to be uv boots and suncream...
 
Badly.. but then my boys condition is a stubborn git! We have tried nearly almost everything from a veterinary point of view that we can. Steroids, creams, covering legs, washing,leaving them alone,clipping his legs and removing the scabs, even sending him to the vets for 2 weeks to see if they could get anywhere. We recently spoke to the chap at Liverpool who said stop the steroids as my horse no longer responds to them and keep him in during the day and out on a night. Wash with neat hibi scrub and wash off well and dry well too. Where a month into this and... very very slowly as we do 1 step forward two back. We are very slowly making some progress.

Oh! Does anyone know or think that stress can make this condition worse.
 
Jim bob said:
http://www.thehorse.com/articles/38140/can-alfalfa-induce-type-1-photosensitization-in-horses
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Interesting read. I don't feed and never have fed alfalfa to the horse suffering from LV.

Changing grazing is interesting, I know if I let the horse onto pasture that is long his legs will be irritated. I keep his paddock like a bowling green by topping and striming so there is nothing to irritate him.

Such a nightmare problem, I can see it being the end of him at some point, not that I can bear to think about that.
 
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