Liverpool Sarcoid Cream

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Has anyone else had their horse's sarcoids treated this way and been left with a huge crater where sarcoid has dropped off? My horse has had 3 treated on his belly at the same time - 2 are doing what's expected (walling off, with new skin developing underneath - should fall off in a couple of weeks), but the largest one has fallen off way sooner than I expected (within 3 weeks) and taken a sodding great lump of flesh with it. Poor horse is now left with a approx 3cm deep, and 15x5cm diameter hole on his belly - it's burnt through some of the underlying muscle aswell as the skin. I'm ringing my vet tomorrow to ask about this as I'm worried re infection risk and how long it's going to take to granulate over. Unfortunately horse is at uni with me at the mo so my own vet will not be able to check it - may ask a vet up here to cast their eye over it. Luckily he doesn't seem bothered by it, it just looks so horrendous! Replies much appreciated.
 
excellent stuff. get your vet or a vet to check, keep clean and dress with something like flamazine and intrasite gel. it will fill back in and shrink in time. i have some hrrendous pictures of a horse of mine, but 3 years on you would never know unless told and knew where to look!!
 
Wow! Sounds nasty - I think perhaps it has to to get all the sarcoid off? Have heard similar things with sarcoid remedies but all seem to improve over time... good luck!
 
It'll grow in. I've taken off a number of sarcoids with copper sulphate and they always leave a crater. It granulates in, though sometimes you have to stop the granulation to let the skin come over from the outside (more, but really weak this time, copper sulphate).
 
My filly had about 8 treated in Spring and one of them didn't scab over like the others. The area did swell and a circular crack appeared in the skin. It looked almost like a lid sitting on the crater until it fell off and left the large crater-like wound (in her front leg crease). This occurred in the middle of summer so flies were eating her alive despite fly repellent and Equigel. The wound did elongate and heal quickly BUT the sarcoid reappeared in the same place whereas the other treated sarcoids were cleared. Not sure if this reaction means the cream hasn't done it's job properly but it wasn't the best outcome. The vet had to retreat this area with the cream and fingers Xd as this time the scabs have blackened.
 
Ok so I spoke to my vet yesterday, who said try and clean it 2xday with salt water and put some antiseptic cream on it, which I am doing as best I can without getting my head kicked in as I think it's v v sore to touch, and being a feisty TB he has v quick hindlegs! But did it again today, and it's started to smell a bit and has some necrotic edges - it's just not going to heal this way at all, so have booked for another vet to see him Monday and sedate him, debride the wound and get it really clean in the hopes it will start granulating properly. Does anyone have any bright ideas to keep it clean, bearing in mind its on his tummy right in the middle, and he either gets mud or shavings in it everytime he rolls! Thanks!
 
you could mix a saline solution and spray from a distance? is he good with a hose pipe? at least that way you will be out of kicking reach? i did my horse with a garden sprayer .. made up 5 litres of strong saline and adjusted nozzle and sprayed off twice a day. (tho he was a nearly perfect patient!) then put flamazine and intrasite mixed on by hand! the craters will fill in do not panic! its a long job,. best of luck! you could always twitch him every other day for a thorough clean and dress?
 
My girl had a crater on her chest a few years ago after the liverpool cream treatment, and with my bad sense of timing it was in the middle of summer, so the flies were a big problem. After trying lots of things and talking to my vet we covered it with stockholm tar and it worked a treat. It kept all the flies away and it healed brilliantly underneath a protective layer. Within a few months you couldn't even see where it had been!
 
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