Ringworm :(

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marley123

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I have a 3 1/2 year old irish sports horse which i brought at the beginning of october, so have had for 4 months now. A few days after we got him home we found out he had ringworm.

We have tried a number of different treatments now including immaverol, grisofulvin granules, anti fungal cream and iodine. We have started back on the immaverol again to see if it works second time round. We were told by our vets that once a layer of hair has grown across the rings then he is no longer contagous and it has started to go.

The hair has grown back and then disapeared again and its now grown back. How else are we to know if it has gone? And does anyone have any recommendations of treatments we could use?

Thank you
 
you have done all the right treatments. are you sure it is still active? they can look moth eaten for quite a while esp at this time of year. virkon is good for washing all your brushes, ropes, headcollars, stable etc. it does say it can be used on the horse but it is very harsh. your vet should be able to tell if it is still active. fortunately it is self limiting and sunlight will make it go. Good luck, at least soon he will change his coat and look all shiny again.
 
It takes a while for the bald patches to grow over again. I would simply bath a horse with a pevidine wash ,Dilute detol on brushes .Avoid cross contamination . It will die prettymuch instantly with the pevidine wash. An important thing to realise is that it is probably your yard "strain "that he caught,rather than one he brought with him. All yards have it ,its just that the horses are all immune.
 
crappy time of year for it really. ideally you can just let them out with no rugs on etc in the sun but at this time of year if you are using rugs then you are more than likely 'reinfecting' him with it. tack will also reinfect and if he gets hot due to work then it will only encourage it more.. stop your exercising altogether or reduce it so he doesn't heat up and try and keep him naked.

One of mine had it and we kept him completely isolated. His brushes etc were all kept in his stable and virkoned after use. He was also virkoned every day!! It was a very very weak solution but it helped and we extremely careful about not reinfecting him - even his head collar was virkoned. Literally a big tub of virkon was out side his stable and everything was dipped in it. It was extreme but it worked and with the use of grisol we treated it quickly from the inside and out!


Its such a pain though. Whilst its not life threatening if you don't treat it seriously and someone elses horse catches it its a right pain and would be pretty unfair! You'll also need to spray the inside of your stable with virkon if its wood/anything pourous.
 
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