Ringworm home treatment

[Moomin1]

Goodness me guys! I never though my innocent question would turn out to be so controversial..!

Tnavas - canesten and nizoral were purchased yesterday, canesten applied last night and this morning, a shampoo and set is booked for after work The lesion is on his neck under his mane so he has also got pretty braids to allow the sunlight (if we get any) to help heal it. The biggest problem it causes my boy is it means separation from his buddies the cows..

That's more than likely where he's had it from in the first place.

 

[Goldenstar]

Yes the cows will be the culprits .
I can't bear ringworm I have had it once here a horse brought it home from hunting I hit it with everything modern veterinary medicine could provide no other horse caught it .

 

[Tnavas]

I've had at least twenty horses with it in the last thirty years and I have never caught it myself and never taken any precautions not to. But if I did catch it, I'd put canestan or an athlete's foot treatment on it and it would cause no trouble. It's an insignificant disease whose only problem in healthy horses is that it makes a mark in the coat for a while.
Thankfully, I am no longer on a livery yard where people panic about it.

I remember my mum telling me the treatment for ringworm when she worked as a nursery nurse during the war years was coating the rings with tar.

Until modern treatment came into existence the only treatment was tar or eventually Iodine.

Ringworm can be self limiting if conditions are unfavourable to it but it can and does attack the whole horse including developing inside eyelids.

Anyone with the yellow/gold covered 'Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners' book has only to look through it and see the picture of the horse with a bad case of ringworm.

cptrayes you are lucky you've not caught it, I have a few times now and the itching is horrible and the red welts it causes look pretty gross too, especially if on your face.

I'ts irresponsible to not treat something that can be so uncomfortable to the horse and these days can so easily be treated.

We are lucky now that we have several means of treating it. I remember the time when horses had to have a course of tablets called Grisovin, ingredient Grisiofulvin.

To be honest cptrayes I have really lost respect for your knowledge with your attitude of chucking things out to sort themselves out, eg, abscesses and now ringworm.

And as an old schooler myself I remember ringworm being taken most seriously certainly not a laughable matter.

Maybe you need a dose of ringworm to find out how miserable it can make you feel.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Athlete's foot spray is great as you don't have to touch the area, which can of course help spread it further.
I'm another one who has had ringworm a couple of times and it is horrible.
My father used 1/1 white spirit/creosote which was what he used to use on the cows.

 

[Goldenstar]

Athlete's foot spray is great as you don't have to touch the area, which can of course help spread it further.
I'm another one who has had ringworm a couple of times and it is horrible.
My father used 1/1 white spirit/creosote which was what he used to use on the cows.

Ekkk don't do this at home folks creosote is a carcinogen .

 

[cptrayes]

I remember my mum telling me the treatment for ringworm when she worked as a nursery nurse during the war years was coating the rings with tar.

Until modern treatment came into existence the only treatment was tar or eventually Iodine.

Ringworm can be self limiting if conditions are unfavourable to it but it can and does attack the whole horse including developing inside eyelids.

Anyone with the yellow/gold covered 'Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners' book has only to look through it and see the picture of the horse with a bad case of ringworm.

cptrayes you are lucky you've not caught it, I have a few times now and the itching is horrible and the red welts it causes look pretty gross too, especially if on your face.

I'ts irresponsible to not treat something that can be so uncomfortable to the horse and these days can so easily be treated.

We are lucky now that we have several means of treating it. I remember the time when horses had to have a course of tablets called Grisovin, ingredient Grisiofulvin.

To be honest cptrayes I have really lost respect for your knowledge with your attitude of chucking things out to sort themselves out, eg, abscesses and now ringworm.

And as an old schooler myself I remember ringworm being taken most seriously certainly not a laughable matter.

Maybe you need a dose of ringworm to find out how miserable it can make you feel.

I don't really mind what your opinion of me is Tnavas, I don't know you from Adam and you don't know me. My vet supports the way I treat abscesses (a fact you persistently refuse to acknowledge) and ringworm.

What I do know is that none of my horses have shown the slightest irritation with ringworm (but if they had I would treat it) nor have they had the slightest problem self limiting it to a maximum of two lesions.

I think you might read too many vet books Tnavas, you appear to make a habit of scaring less knowledgeable horses owners with 'might be' scenarios (ringworm inside the eyes, bone necrosis caused by abscesses) which are in fact extremely rare.

The fact is that very few horses ever needed oral griseofulvin, but vets prescribed it anyway. I wonder why? More people these days have, thanks to the internet, realised that ringworm is a very minor disease, does not normally need a vet, and can be treated by a number of freely available topical anti fungal agents.

 

[Orangehorse]

My horse got ringworm very badly when he was 4 or 5. He either caught it from cattle or from a little pony I had borrowed as a companion, on inspection he had one lesion under his jaw. My horse was plastered from the tip of ear all down one side, neck, shoulder, body, rump. I had 2 pots of the Griseofulvin and had to shampoo him. I discovered one or two lesions that I hadn't treated, under his belly, and they cleared up exactly the same as the ones that had been treated with washing. It started off in June and it was quite a long time before it cleared up. Despite my fears, all his hair grew back fine, the correct colour!

However, he was very lethargic, although he was still growing of course. Someone who had worked in a dealer's yard said that if they get it badly it can make them ill. In the end I gave him a course of Global Herbs Restore (? I think that is what it was called) which seemed to make him better.

I got it too and was showing off my unattractive red sore on my stomach in the chemist's shop! Luckily they didn't all run away and there was a lady there who had horses and she gave me some cream, which cleared it up straight away.
Too long ago now to remember what it was.

But the ringworm meant that my horse lost most of a summer's work.

 

[Cheshire Chestnut]

Athletes foot cream - works a treat. Get an extra strength one though, cleared my boy's ringworm up last year a treat!

 

[Olliepoppy]

The canesten cream works really well, the lesion has gone already!