Rain Scald?!?

[Kokopelli]

What's the best treatment for rain scald?

Pony has small greasey (I think) lumps, I can pick them off but if I do the hair comes out too. Really don't want a bald pony, he doesn't seem sore atm and when hair comes out no sore skin underneath.

 

[evj]

I washed with hibiscrub so the scabs softened, picked scabs off, more hibiscrub, dried, covered in sudo cream. He only had it mild and seemed to be off lying in wet warm grass.

 

[SO1]

My pony had this and I had vet out - clip the area and then wash it with an antibacterial shampoo every day for 10 days and to keep it dry as well afterwards.

 

[Kokopelli]

I'm worried that using something too strong may make it worse by irritating th skin, which shampoo did you use?

 

[Joeyjojo]

I've started using equine america's fungitrol gel on mud fever and rain scald. Seems to be fab stuff, clearing it up immediately

 

[tubby1]

My mare had terrible rainscald when I bought her . I used hibiscrub once then Msm cream every other day & picked the scabs off. She did lose a lot of hair but it grew back & now you can't see anything. It took a few months to clear it all up

 

[Paigeous]

Hibiscrub isn't too harsh But effective I also find Dermoline to be effective - like Savlon for horses Hope it clears up soon

 

[Kokopelli]

Sould I pick the lumps off or keep them? There are literally thousands so would take a long time to do each one.

 

[Tnavas]

Sould I pick the lumps off or keep them? There are literally thousands so would take a long time to do each one.

Definately don't pick pff the scabs, when you do you risk introducing bacteria to the area and making everything far harder for your self

Wash the affected area with Nizoral Shampoo (buy from chemist) Dilute in hand hot water.lather up well and work well into the skin. Scabs will fall off in their own time and the Nizoral sems to dissolve them. One wah should sort it out. I usually don't rinse as the longer the shampoo is on the better it works. My youngster is home from his loan home at the moment as he put his leg through the fence. Along withthe wound he had mudfever all down the leg - one wash with Nizoral and the mudfever is gone - shame the wound will take many months to heal.

As rainscald scabs are not true scabs - just lymph that has oozed through the skin and glued itself around often healthy hair, picking off the scabs causes you to pull hair out by its roots, break the skin and cause it to bleed. Very painful for the horse!

Those of you that use Hibiscrub - it is designed to sterilize a surgeons hands prior to surgery and is not supposed to be used on broken skin/open wounds. Vets are naughty to advise its use when the skin is broken.

 

[Kokopelli]

Skin isn't broken even when the scabs were picked off. Nizoral sounds good though, will give it a go