Ring worm while staying at horsepital...

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Just to add to Lottie's current nightmare, she now appears to have ring worm.

Visited her tonight and she has several puffy, raised areas of skin on her neck. Once of the areas has no hair on it and the skin looks very sore and red.

Vet has said that they think it is ring worm so are treating it accordingly. Have no idea how she has caught it, nothing else there has it nor do any of the horses at my yard. Guess it may have been there dormant?

Never dealt with ringworm before so just wondered if anyone could tell me how long it normally takes to clear up and how long she will be contagious for?
 
poor thing. i know on a human it last for a few months and is highly contaigious, it can become really itchy and probably leave a scare.
 
God I hope it is not that log for horses!! And I will not be very happy if she is scarred either.

Have to say that I am slightly annoyed that she has contracted this while at the vets...
 
Lottie is trying to take Grace's crown as the unluckiest horse in history...

My friend's horse had ringworm and it didn't take that long for it to clear up with treatment
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I wouldn't worry about it too much, she is in the best place and my friend's horse did not scar at all.
 
It shouldnt scar. Its just bl....dy annoying and a pain in the bum if you dont know where its come from! Get a few cans of jeyes fluid, mix with warm water and disinfect everything in the yard. Yes this includes the wall of the stables, floors etc. Any fences your horse has been in contact with, brushes, rugs! You name it it's got to be disinfected! (Actually i'm not sure what sort of difference it makes (can understand the direct contact stuff but the rest?) but thats what I was told to do!)
 
I had a horse come back from breaking in with it, no scarring though, she had something from the chemists which in fact the vet said to get. I've forgotten the name of it but an antifungal.

I had it too once, unrelated to the horse, and needed tablets from GP in the end, but again, no scar.
 
My stallion had it,and i used canaten cream(thrush cream for humans).Treated the effected area twice a day and it took a week to clear up.
The reason you have to disinfect everything dossiesmummy is that ring worm can lay dormant in wood etc for years.
 
I caught ringworm from someone else's horse and it is SO very itchy. It lasted about 3 weeks from treatment with an antifungal, which was about the same on the horse and neither of us got scarring, although I was very annoyed as it turned out the YO knew the horse had it but didn't tell me
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Once it's treated twice it usually stops it, but change your clothes after touching the horse and spray your stable and equipment with the stuff the vet gives you before you bring the horse back home.
It seems to thrive on horses who are under par a bit like lice, but it's treatable.
It will have been rubbed off onto something then she's touched it, or they examined a horse who wasn't showing any signs but had it. The spores live for years I'm afraid..
 
I expect that with beinbg a bit run down it has taken the opportunity to take hold, it was probably already present on her skin
 
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The reason you have to disinfect everything dossiesmummy is that ring worm can lay dormant in wood etc for years.

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I know it can lay dormant. I suppose thats why I think its a bit of a waste of time disinfecting everywhere. The problem is when you have several barns, stables, miles of post and rail, trees etc you have no idea where it has come from, it really is a nightmare. How can you be sure you have disinfected the right part? In my case, I think it is easier to deal with the ringworm than disinfect everything!!
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Dont get me wrong, I would always disinfect anything that said horse had come into contact with, including the stable but to do the whole farm was a bit OTT!!!!!!
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