Lumps like Hives?

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Christmas Crumpet

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Just wondering whether anyone knows why these might have come up. I noticed them whilst clipping my little mare yesterday and thought it must be due to a reaction to the clipper oil, or heat of clippers or perhaps a reaction to the mud and rain out hunting on Saturday. Then I got the big horse out to exercise him and saw them on him too. They are like raised swollen patches on their rumps, sides and some on the neck.

I thought this was very bizarre until I spoke to someone last night who's yard of pointers has got them too. I can definately discount rugs being cleaned and a reaction to that or the horses being washed with shampoo because neither of those things have occurred. Does anyone have any ideas?
 
we have had several cases last year and this i can def say its something to do with the clipping and sometimes it gets real bad and takes ages to settle and comes up worse when horse gets hot .i found bathing with hibby scrub and udder cream did the trick as good as anything and we tried alsorts
 
Are the lumps open at all? Or is it just as you say and like hives? Just curious from the point of veiw of my cob, who has crusty lumps that I'm struggling to get rid of.
 
My youngster has them as well they cleared up last week and we thought it may have been somthing in his diet, i cut out topspec and they seemed to clear up, they have now started to come back again
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got vet coming out again tomorow to do a skin biopsy so we can find out whats going on.
he was covered in them and some were weeping, i had him clipped so he could be washed in hibiscrub daily, didnt seem to have any effect really. Hes been on a corse of antibiotics cause they got badly infected and also having bute to help with discomfort and inflamation.
Poor boys been suffering now for at least 6 weeks
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Hopefully the biopsy will shed some light on the problem.
Debs x
 
had this problem some years ago with arab stallion, vet diagnosed an allergy to all cereal so he had to go on a totally cereal free feed, it worked never had them since, large lumps some weeping and scabbing, like he had been attacked by a massive fly.
 
My horse came up with them about 10 days ago, were all over his body and you could feel a tiny scab in the middle of alot of them.
He lost his sparkle and then I noticed them around hid neck area and he semed most unhappy about me touching them.
Some of the other girls on the yard said that they looked very similar to protein bumps, but I have not been giving him anything different in his food.
Anyway I decided to get the vet up to give him the once over and he said that it looked like he has eaten something and had a reaction to it, gave him a steroid injection and he is slowly coming back to his normal self.It could have been something he picked up in his paddock as he has recently moved to rest his own paddock or something in his haylege.

I hope your horse gets better nad you get to find out the cause of it.
 
I'm having the same problem and I've already put a couple of posts up about it. My boy has had these lumps since the end of the summer and has had to be treated with steroids, he has been diagnosed as allergic to a number of feeds, mites and mould. I'm working to try and exclude all the things he's allergis to which is quite hard and at the moment he is not as bad as he has been. I'm reassured to hear other people have the same problem and if anyone comes up with any miracle cures or ideas I'd love to hear from them.
 
I've had the same problem too. Lots of lumps with weepy looking scabs on them. My horse came up with them a week after he was clipped this year, it did happen last year too and we had no idea why.

This year it happened a day after he was put in his HW TO rug which is nylon lined (unlike my other rugs) and the lumps are everywhere the rug would touch him, the area in front of the lumps was covered by his snuggyhood. (It's not the washing powder ebcause I was it myself and don't use any soap). I dug out a cotton summer sheet and have put this on underneath his TO rugs now and wash it once a week. They have now gone and I have continued with the sheet. I wonder if he's become sensitive to nylon? It's a man made substance isn't it and I know people can be sensitive to that?

I really don't know what it causing it, but it really does seem to be a common problem at the moment doesn't it?
 
Much as I don't like to hear of another horse having the same problem I feel better to hear that other people have had a similar experience! Its interesting what you say about rugs as I find certain rugs of mine seem to make the lumps worse and after a long ride at the weekend under his numnah is more lumpy.
 
My mare came up in a bad case of Urticaria (hives) several years ago, again after clipping her. All the time she had a rug on the lumps, well actually they were fluid filled, like bubble wrap, stayed away, but once she got chilly they came up all over her neck, torso and backside.

She wasn't off colour or ill in anyway. And they weren't itchy or sore.

My vet thought initially it was a protein overload as she was on tons of hard feed and haylage because I couldn't keep weight on her.

She did various blood tests and biopsies, but they all came back fine.

To cut a long story short, I had to take her off all the hard feed and hay, move her to some fresh grazing, give her steroid injections and then eventually tablets (48 a day at one point), and it took 6 weeks and some homeopathic tablets before the lumps went down. It was very worrying, but Rosie wasn't bothered AT ALL!
 
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