More mud fever advice please!!!

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My in foal mare has had a bad case of MF. Despite my best efforts with various stuff, i had to call the vet. Powder antibiotics and a tiny tube of cream, gone in a day and a half as it is over a large area on both fronts and two smaller patches on her hind fetlocks. I'm at the stage now where i don't know what to try next. I have got the scabs softened and mostly lifted and nice pink skin underneath but they keep going crusty again and i'm back to square one. I wash with hibiscrub, dry then apply uddercream to keep them supple but it keeps drying out and going hard again. Mare has never had it before, it came on during that nice dry spell in September, so no muddy areas and she is in at night. She wintered out all last winter and not a speck of it then, could she be more prone to it being in foal. What can anyone suggest for the skin once the scabs are off to aid healing?
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I got Proflavamine (I think that's what it's called) from the vet last year because I totally lost the battle in the winter with mud fever. It was brilliant stuff and cleared it up beautifully

Touch wood no sign of it this year so far - but I plaster his legs in udder SALVE not cream (which comes off to easily).

I would actually stop washing the legs and just liberally apply the salve. But if it really is not getting any better then it's going to be a vet job again I would say.
 
STOP WASHING THE LEGS! You're weakening the skin every time you do it because it is weak at the moment.
Just keep applying Protocon which will loosen the scabs but don't rub them off you'll make them sore. Keep plastering the cream on, they will soon clear and then keep using a barrier cream every time you turn out.
 
I too agree with MFH_09. I never wash legs unless I am really desp and they are v dirty and my boy has 4 white legs (with pink skin)!! Barrier cream is the answer. At the min I am using Green Oils Gel but when that runs out I'll use me Sudocrem. I am trying to get hold of pig oil and sulphur coz I've heard that works. Not having much luck though.

Good luck and be patient it will work in the end. My lad is nowhere near as bad as he used to be.
 
The absolute best thing to use in mud fever is athletes foot powder - it is the same type of fungus which causes both. I don't ever use anything else to heal mud fever.

You will need to make sure the leg is clean from whatever barrier cream you have been using and it will have to be completely dry before you rub the powder in. You should notice it clearing up in a few days.
Once it has gone, then use a barrier cream like Sudocrem. Good luck.
 
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I too agree with MFH_09. I never wash legs unless I am really desp and they are v dirty and my boy has 4 white legs (with pink skin)!! Barrier cream is the answer. At the min I am using Green Oils Gel but when that runs out I'll use me Sudocrem. I am trying to get hold of pig oil and sulphur coz I've heard that works. Not having much luck though.



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We never wash off legs either and touch wood ours have never had mud fever. I'm going to get some of the pig oil and sulphur off of Ebay. This is the link:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/pig-oil-horses-5-l...id=p3286.c0.m14
 
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