rash/sores/ any idea?

[ex racer rider]

Posting this for a friend.
Her horse first showed signs of a small rash on her face around about a week ago, it has slowly gotten worse and we have no idea what it is, it has been hibi scrubbed the first few days and then left to see what happened with it (incase it was irritation)
does anyone have any idea?
this is today http://s1287.photobucket.com/user/bl...765df.jpg.html

this is two days ago http://s1287.photobucket.com/user/bl...379b3.jpg.html

Forgot to say, i suggested vet when it first showed up but friend wanted to wait as other liveries told her it was sunburn...... now that its getting worse she is asking if anyone knows but is planning on getting the vet if no improvement by the weekend

 

[Tern]

Photobucket link are errors. I always thought hibi scrub was for more legs etc not sensitive parts like face?

 

[ex racer rider]

2 days ago

today

 

[Tern]

1st thoughts is it looks like ringworm? Need someone more experienced with this though.

 

[Tnavas]

Full on Ringworm!

Go to the chemist and buy some Nizoral shampoo - dilute with hand hot water and lather up well - suggest that you wash him thoroughly all over and then attack the face with plenty of the shampoo - a face cloth does a great job. Leave on to dry. You may need to repeat in a few days.

Then wash all his grooming kit, saddle blanket, girths, numnahs, bridle with the shampoo. Soak the clothes you've been wearing in the mix and also shower and wash your hair with the Shampoo too.

Don't worry - it's human shampoo but will kill the ringworm fast. Ringworm is one disease that horses can give us.

Has he been grazing with or in a paddock recently with cows as they are great at giving everything ring worm. Could also have been caught from foxes, badgers and hedgehogs too.

If he's grazing with others tell them to keep an eye on their horses and wash at the moment they see any raised areas.

Ringworm is a fungus and as it grows and reproduces it pings the spores outwards which is why the areas are circular and get wider.

 

[Gloi]

Good advice from Tnavas. As well as the horses make sure all the people who have been touching her keep an eye on themselves for any raised red circles. They start off looking like this
http://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk...-Ringworm-lesion-on-human-caught-from-cat.jpg
You can treat them either with the shampoo or with athlete's foot creams.
You can also get an antifungal powder from the vet, used to be called 'Fulcin', which you put in feed for 5 days or so.

 

[Tnavas]

Good advice from Tnavas. As well as the horses make sure all the people who have been touching her keep an eye on themselves for any raised red circles. They start off looking like this
http://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk...-Ringworm-lesion-on-human-caught-from-cat.jpg
You can treat them either with the shampoo or with athlete's foot creams.
You can also get an antifungal powder from the vet, used to be called 'Fulcin', which you put in feed for 5 days or so.

Gloi, from what I remember about Fulcin it needs to be fed for several weeks, if not months, is very expensive and can have an effect on the liver.

Topical washing of the horse is just as effective and Nizoral shampoo is really effective and nowhere near as expensive. I used it on myself when I got a dose of ringworm from a rescue kitten.

 

[Gloi]

When we had ponies with ringworm on the past they only had a week or so's course of it and it cleared it up. Things may have changed but it's what our vet used to give us.