Pink_Pampas
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I have battled with mudfever/dermatitis over the past 4 months with my horse, he did not have the classic scabs but scabby skin where the serum had come out and then hardended on to it. I got those off with a mixture of leaving a hot poultice on overnight or sudocream covered in cling film and then bandaging over the top. He also had a thick ring which was spreading outwards. The vet made a cream of flamazine, oxytetracycline spray and penicillin in which cleared up back leg which was put on after washing with hibiscrub.
Just as that leg cleared a couple of scabs developed on either side of the other back leg which I tried the same with, but as he had grown a winter coat by then it was impossible to get all the fur dry right down to the skin after washing. He became very sore so had the vet back out to sedate him so I could clip all his legs out fully and that made a massive difference. It uncovered all the sore pink cracked and chapped skin which could not be seen through the fur and that he wouldnt let me get near. It allowed me to use the cream on the actual skin rather than through fur and it could also be dried off properly. I used Fucidin H ointment in the morning and flamazine in the evening, whilst keeping him in for nearly 2 weeks away from the wet and mud. Both back legs are healed now and the fur is staring to grow back over. He goes out with well fitting turnout boots on or bandages and I am using bandages whilst riding to keep any mud and sand off. It has been a horrible few months and you have to keep on at it every morning and night, but thankfully we are over it now. I have a big tub of flamazine and some Fucidin H and use those on any areas which look like they might flare up.
Just as that leg cleared a couple of scabs developed on either side of the other back leg which I tried the same with, but as he had grown a winter coat by then it was impossible to get all the fur dry right down to the skin after washing. He became very sore so had the vet back out to sedate him so I could clip all his legs out fully and that made a massive difference. It uncovered all the sore pink cracked and chapped skin which could not be seen through the fur and that he wouldnt let me get near. It allowed me to use the cream on the actual skin rather than through fur and it could also be dried off properly. I used Fucidin H ointment in the morning and flamazine in the evening, whilst keeping him in for nearly 2 weeks away from the wet and mud. Both back legs are healed now and the fur is staring to grow back over. He goes out with well fitting turnout boots on or bandages and I am using bandages whilst riding to keep any mud and sand off. It has been a horrible few months and you have to keep on at it every morning and night, but thankfully we are over it now. I have a big tub of flamazine and some Fucidin H and use those on any areas which look like they might flare up.
