Nasty mud-fever but not, help!

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My boy has had scabby bits around his coronets for ages and ages. I've tried treating them as mud fever, but they don't go away in good weather. I've tried various mud fever treatments - sudocrem, udder cream, Fuciderm, a few other branded gunks that I can't remember the name of. Other than the udder cream, they seem to do the trick for a while and then he starts reacting badly to them and the scabs get worse. I finally got the vet to swab and culture the exudate, and he has been on three weeks of oral antibiotics along with antibiotics mixed into udder cream and applied topically. This is interspersed with washing with hibiscrub and soaking in dilute dettol. Things are looking a little better, but the deepest cracks are not healed. I will keep going back to the vets, but wondered if anyone else has experienced this and managed to get rid of it??
Thanks in advance.
 
I've always found antibiotics did the ultimate trick so not sure what to say, but Aromaheel has worked brilliantly for some very stubborn mudfever on a pony I had.
 
i would get some of the liver detox, and do that for 7 days, and add some pro/pre biotics to help his gut flora recover from the a-bs. and i would be tempted to wash his legs with something milder than hibiscrub and dettol. the pH of his skin but be all out of kilter now. Aqueaous cream is perfect for using as a wash (which is what it was made for) and doesnt strip the skin. have you tried flamazine for the deeper cracks?
 
sounds exactly like pemphigus coronitis ,my friends horse had this its an autoimmune disease and is controlled by steroids, never went away but was controlled to a degree. ask ur vet about it.x
 
Our mare was like this when we got her, we bought her in Febuary and I spent all summer treating her for mud fever and couldn't understand why it wouldn't go away. It turned out to be mites not mud fever.
 
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