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What can I do to help my mares Malanders heal up (scabs on the back of her knee) have been using aqueous cream as that was what was suggested to me by previous owner, upon googling it I found a lot that people had tried but nothing that actually cleared them up without a vet visit? Is that my only option/has anyone had something work?
 
I used a potion mixed by my vet when my boy's legs (and behind knees) were really bad. The potion was a pot of Flamozine cream, mixed with Synulox (antibiotic) and a steroid. It didn't come cheap at £50 a pot, but after years of trying all sorts of other products, it was the only thing that did the trick.

I used the potion for a couple of weeks when his legs were sore, then switched to using Eucerin 10% urea lotion (it's a product for eczema/psoriasis type skin problems in humans) for daily moisturising, which really helped to stop his skin cracking and gave the scar tissue a little 'stretch'.

Hope this helps

p.s. the Flamozine potion was mixed by the vet as a substitute to Dermobion which is no longer available.
 
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No problem. If it's only a small area you're treating (i.e. just behind the knees), a small pot of the Flamozine potion mix would last a while.

The Eucerin 10% urea lotion is available from High Street chemists at around £14 for 250ml, but it's cheaper to buy online - I used to pay £8 - £9 by shopping around the online chemists.

It took me years to find anything that helped and in the end, the opposite of what I'd initially been told worked a treat. Once I started to treat his skin very gently, it all improved no end.

Good luck!
 
I wash weĺl with alphosyl shampoo then when dry rub in sudocrem
you need to part the hair and rub in
In winter spraying with pig oil after doing that can kèep the wet out.

You nèed to do this at least 3 Times a week to start with. Then once or twice a week to keep it away

My mare had it on back of fetlocks too and once cleared I put turn out boots on and that stopped it completely
 
lots oof sudecrem and a fine tooth comb cured the cob in the next field have you tried the turmeric and sudecrem mix it is cheap and seems to work for most cracked heels etc and could be used until the vet arrives without doing much harm
 
I use pig oil and sulphur every few weeks and top up with plain pig oil in between. Keeps on top of it for my boy, but he does not get it particularly badly anyway. Never sore, just a line of hard dry skin behind his knee!
 
Hers are strange (well iv never come across them before so they are strange to me) she doesn't seem to be bleeding or particularly sore, on the right fore she sometimes moves the leg away from me when creaming up but that's her only reaction, she lets me touch them, the scabs though are very chunky more 3d than 2d if that makes sense...
 
After trying a variety of things, which al seemed to have an effect but not to clear it completely even with daily application, I bought a beeswax-based lotion, aimed at people with cracked hands and pets with cracked paws. It has worked very well. I put some on yesterday and the only reaction was behind one knee, where actually most of the scabbing has travelled down the hair. Her heels and fetlocks, which have thickened skin from years of problems, long before I bought her, got no reaction at all. And considering how much water is sloshing around in our fields, that is very impressive. It really seems to be a case of trial and error to find the best thing for each individual.
 
Clipping the patch and creaming with sudocreme with sulphur powder mixed in keeps my lads ok. Only welsh though so not that hairy!
 
Mylife said:
I have been using aqueous cream is that no good It was reccomended to me?
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It's a case of the proof of the pudding............You will only know if it works for your horse when it does, or when you give up in disgust because it hasn't worked.
I've tried all sorts. Equimins Teatree Mist helped my mare. She has the hairiest feather I've ever seen (Draft mare), we have to clip them off because her problem is definitely a kind of eczema which is exacerbated by sweating. I have also tried Hypocare, which helped as well but the beeswax stuff is the best I've tried. I then spray her legs with Pig Oil (Liquid paraffin).
 
Aqueous cream contains lauryl sulphate which can cause drying of the skin (it's the stuff often used in shampoo/bubble bath/shower gel). It's no longer regarded as a good product for the treatment of eczema in humans because it thins the skin and causes further dehydration.

I know that pig oil and sulphur is used with success by many, but my horse was allergic to it and it blistered his pink skin, as did Sudocrem.

It's a matter of trial and error I think and sticking with what suits.
 
I've tried everything for my mare - sudocreme, Vaseline, bees wax, pig oil, you name it, I've tried it. Best thing I've found for mine is clipping off the hair at the back of her knees and then applying emulsifying cream, about £5.00 a pot from the chemist. I don't think anything actually "cures" mallenders, its just a case of keeping on top of it by applying cream every few days or so to keep the skin supple.
 
I already clipped them out when I had her on loan, now iv brought her and moved her i put aqueous cream on the first night she was there (she stayed in) next day turned out and didn't touch them, next day when I brought her down I used a fine comb to comb the scabs out, on the near fore all the scabs were brown/black so they were 'dead' and so I presume reasonably well healed underneath (hard to tell as still rather hairy) on the right fore most of the scabs came off 'dead' but I counted two that came off showing signs of bleeding...

I sprayed some hypo care on to keep infection off will check again today... Xx
 
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