Pink Powder and Sarcoids

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yvonne36

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My 4 year old has developed a few sarcoids over the last couple of months. The vet is coming on Monday to have a look at them but one of my friends suggested feeding Pink Powder. At the moment he only gets Happy Hoof and garlic and thrives on hay and fresh air! Any ideas?
 
Are you sure they are sarcoids and not just warts. Many young horses gets warts that just disappear. My shetland got them all over his nose, within 6 months they were gone. I would wait until your vet has been out.
 
Pink Powder is for the Digestive system to enable it to work better so they get the best out of their feeds, and also has vits/mins/probiotics etc, we use it,very good stuff but not sure that it would be helpful for a horse with sarcoids?-

There is a line of thought that sometimes Sarcoids can be caused by a virus, so maybe something to specifically help the immune system if you wanted to go down that route?- (prob loads of pots of this and that on the market for the immune system.... NAF, Global Herbs, Equine America etc) but prob best to speak with your vet and see what they suggest and the options available re treatment.
(if Pink Powder could have prevented my horses small sarcoids over the years I'd of saved a fortune in vets bills!......
 
As Tracey01 has said, young horses whose immune systems have not yet fully matured often go through a phase of having hundreds of warts, usually around the muzzle. Depending on where your horse's lumps are, it's probably that. They need no treatment at all and disappear miraculously as the immune system develops. True sarcoids can be a nightmare to diagnose and often weird lumps and bumps are assumed to be sarcoids even if they aren't. You can't be 100% certain something is a sarcoid without a biopsy, which itself can make a true sarcoid worse. Be very careful what you put on a true, diagnosed sarcoid as sarcoids are skin cancers and need to be treated very carefully or you can make them worse.

I wouldn't worry at all until your vet has been but the likelihood is that they are juvenile warts and they will go of their own accord after a few months or so.
 
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