applecart14
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My horse was diagnosed with pin worm about 18 months ago. He had a course of two wormers three weeks apart and was given a pin worm wash and selenium sulphide shampoo. It cleared up within days and he stopped scratching.
Roll on 18 months, arrival at new yard. I noticed his tail looked a little rubbed at the top in the first few days but put this down to him leaning on the walker which he has always done after about 20 mins of walking. About ten days into moving to the new yard I took him to the vets for his reassessment. On our return to the yard partner noticed blood on the walls of his stable which had not been there before we left for the vets. I thought it was the binding from his rug which had got wet during his visit to the vets and had leaked red dye but checked under his tail and was horrified to see sores on the side of his bum cheek right next to his anus where he had rubbed it and it had bled. Luckily another vet from the same practice was at our yard and I asked her to take a look at him as I suspected pinworm again. She had a look and thought he'd rubbed it on the tailgate of the trailer which was possible, especially as he had his tail hanging over the tailgate on our return to the yard. She gave him a steroid injection as he was rubbing his bottom on the wall which resulted in him stopping rubbing it after about 40 to 50 seconds - it was like magic.
I said that with his last pinworm he had rubbed all down the outside of his bum and his flanks and had significant hair loss and it was a different kind of rubbing, more a side to side rubbing motion that what he was displaying which was more up and down. She said in order to cover all bases she would drop some pinworm wash off to me when she visited the yard two days later to see another liveries horse and some mud fever cream as this was very effective and soothing the area and in the meantime the selenium sulphide she had in her car would suffice along with sudocrem which I already had in my first aid kit. Again she doubted pinworm.
However when I rang on the Monday to remind her to drop the stuff off in my stable manger when she visited the yard for her patient she said the appointment had been cancelled. I said he had stopped rubbing so much anyway (which he had) but she said she would try and drop it off if some other vets from the clinic were passing - they are shut when I could get there after work. I continued washing his bum, anus and tail area with the selenium sulphide shampoo, drying it and applying the sudocrem and it started to scab over. He had also stopped rubbing it, so I stopped washing it or it would never scab over. I was still creaming it.
Then last night I got to the yard and a livery in the next stable said he had been rubbing his bottom on the walls again. The pinworm wash stuff has never materialized so I rang the vet again today and they said they would try and drop it off today as someone was visiting the area. If not it will be posted out to me.
I still don't think its pinworm. He has been wormed since being on the yard and it was evening before he went to the clinic but I had told the vet that in her initial examination and she said it wasn't pinworm. She said at any rate the wormer I had given him would eradicate pinworm as it was one of the two that you have to give for pinworm treatment.
Where would you go with this now? Keep washing and creaming.
To date the only place he has rubbed his body is right next to his anus on both side where the skin is soft and hairless. I still don't think its pin worm but I can't understand what else it could be that is irritating him. I did wonder if it could be a splinter from the tailgate but have had a good 'mooch' and can't see anything. It looks like a graze either side of his bum about the size of a 50 pence piece and the underneath of his tail has scabs and a red mark on it also. He can't rub in the field as its mains electric fencing.
Roll on 18 months, arrival at new yard. I noticed his tail looked a little rubbed at the top in the first few days but put this down to him leaning on the walker which he has always done after about 20 mins of walking. About ten days into moving to the new yard I took him to the vets for his reassessment. On our return to the yard partner noticed blood on the walls of his stable which had not been there before we left for the vets. I thought it was the binding from his rug which had got wet during his visit to the vets and had leaked red dye but checked under his tail and was horrified to see sores on the side of his bum cheek right next to his anus where he had rubbed it and it had bled. Luckily another vet from the same practice was at our yard and I asked her to take a look at him as I suspected pinworm again. She had a look and thought he'd rubbed it on the tailgate of the trailer which was possible, especially as he had his tail hanging over the tailgate on our return to the yard. She gave him a steroid injection as he was rubbing his bottom on the wall which resulted in him stopping rubbing it after about 40 to 50 seconds - it was like magic.
I said that with his last pinworm he had rubbed all down the outside of his bum and his flanks and had significant hair loss and it was a different kind of rubbing, more a side to side rubbing motion that what he was displaying which was more up and down. She said in order to cover all bases she would drop some pinworm wash off to me when she visited the yard two days later to see another liveries horse and some mud fever cream as this was very effective and soothing the area and in the meantime the selenium sulphide she had in her car would suffice along with sudocrem which I already had in my first aid kit. Again she doubted pinworm.
However when I rang on the Monday to remind her to drop the stuff off in my stable manger when she visited the yard for her patient she said the appointment had been cancelled. I said he had stopped rubbing so much anyway (which he had) but she said she would try and drop it off if some other vets from the clinic were passing - they are shut when I could get there after work. I continued washing his bum, anus and tail area with the selenium sulphide shampoo, drying it and applying the sudocrem and it started to scab over. He had also stopped rubbing it, so I stopped washing it or it would never scab over. I was still creaming it.
Then last night I got to the yard and a livery in the next stable said he had been rubbing his bottom on the walls again. The pinworm wash stuff has never materialized so I rang the vet again today and they said they would try and drop it off today as someone was visiting the area. If not it will be posted out to me.
I still don't think its pinworm. He has been wormed since being on the yard and it was evening before he went to the clinic but I had told the vet that in her initial examination and she said it wasn't pinworm. She said at any rate the wormer I had given him would eradicate pinworm as it was one of the two that you have to give for pinworm treatment.
Where would you go with this now? Keep washing and creaming.
To date the only place he has rubbed his body is right next to his anus on both side where the skin is soft and hairless. I still don't think its pin worm but I can't understand what else it could be that is irritating him. I did wonder if it could be a splinter from the tailgate but have had a good 'mooch' and can't see anything. It looks like a graze either side of his bum about the size of a 50 pence piece and the underneath of his tail has scabs and a red mark on it also. He can't rub in the field as its mains electric fencing.
