Sacroid? Wart? Nothing?

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Pea sized flat scaly lump on chest, just where the skin folds and the front leg joins the chest. Has had it for around a year, but in the last few weeks (since he's been out 24/7) its gotten a bit bigger. I've dealt with big sarcoids before but this looks different to me. Any ideas?

I guess I should just keep an eye and see if it gets any bigger......bear in mind that this horse is addicted to vets bills......
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Sounds like Grace's...I have started feeding her Thuja tablets alone, and may then introduce some Thuja cream depending on how it reacts.

These two really are competing!!!
 
Thuja can be bought from a herbalist... I buy mine from someone I know
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They are a tablet, and I feed two twice daily. You can't touch the tablets though, so I put them in an apple
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The thuja is usually applied as a cream or a tincture to the wart or scarcoid and the other remedy to go alongside is Nit Ac (Nitric Acid). Some companies off a specific remedy for scarcoids and most good despensaries will give you help and advice too.

You should always be persistant with homeopathic remedies and not miss treatments, this is crucial, also if you give two remedies give them at least 1/2 an hour apart.

I use liquids and put them on sugar lumps they are much better than the tablets for horses. Mares you can put the remedies on the lips of the vagina as well as this is a mucus membrane the same as the mouth! But obviously be very carful if they are in foal and always check if the remedy is ok for an in foal mare.

It is not good to give remedies in food as they will not make a good contact with the mucus membrane inside the mouth with all that food in there!

I would try everything I could before I would call a vet into these as once they get on a horse's record it's very difficult to sell them! But give yourself a sensible deadline for improvement and the call the vet, or get the vet in if they grow a lot suddenly.
 
Meerlin has these...... they have not got any worse in the 4 years I have had him and when I showed the vet a couple of weeks ago, he said to leave them be but to use a face mask to stop flies from going on them and then to his eye area.

Basically he said a sarcoid in that area would not be too serious, but you need to avoid them going near the eyes.

So from that conversation, which was fairly short and off the record, I can conclude that they are indeed sarcoids
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but that they prob wont get worse quickly...... and that it is thought that they can be spread by flies.

Keep your eye on them and let me know if they respond to anything. I find that washing that area down every time he gets sweaty stops them worsening.
 
Bloodroot cream is gross!! I would personally only use it in the winter as I was given it for the same type of sarcoid on my boy's chest, you have to wear gloves to apply it, you also have to protect the other skin around where you are putting it so we had to plaster vaseline all over the unaffected part then the bloodroot literally burns the sarcoid away. It got all pussy and weepy and bloody - sorry just thinking about it makes me feel sick!! I believe that you also have to do it in stages like 7 days on, 7 days off for about 3 lots. as it was summer the flies were always around it and caused the gore. the vet should be the only one to prescribe it. If they aren't bothering your horse and aren't in the way I would leave them until they are, the one my boy had on his chest had been cut out, then bloodroot the following year when it came back and then finally lazered - it hasn't come back!!
 
Sorry to hi-jack but I've just brought some 30c thuja tablets today so this is really helpful. Can i ask a couple of questions?

Re dosage - can you double up and do say four once a day or is that not advisable? Can you mix them into feeds and are they ok to give indefinately or should you allow for a break after a certain amount of time?

My boys sarcoid is right up between his back legs and forms a crust that falls off every now and then, so I'm a bit reluctant to put anything directly on it but was hoping the tablets might help. Thanks!
 
You need as clean a mouth as possible so feed before or a while after a bucket feed, with the tablets you have to give them several times a day as it is not like a medicine and you have to keep up the dose to the body to encourage it to keep up the fight regularly.

I would get a small piece of carrot or apple and cut a piece out put the tablets in the hole and put the bit you cut out back in and let the horse chew it.

Dont touch the tablets at all, the remedy is on the surface and you will reduce its effectiveness it you touch them and wipe some off.

Keep up the treatment regularly it's not a medicine so doses do not accumulate you need to give it regularly until all sign of the problem has gone.
 
my mare has had manydifferent types of sarcoids from flat ulcers ,to round nodules hand lots of expensive toxic creams applied by vets with some horrific results ,most healed eventually but 2 hadn't.Read about using Crest toothpaste and it works!!! Nodule resistant to all the other treatments responded to a daily application of toothpaste and now shrunk down to almost nothing! Worth a try before more expensive bills
 
my horse had quite a bad sarcoid that would bleed almost every day. i gave him one thuja 200c tablet twice a day which i got off ebay from and ebay horse shop and also fed him sarc-ex twice a day. i didn't seem to be doingg much but one day it justr dropped off leaving a small scab. not sure what it was that worked it may have been a combination of the two. anyway defo worth a try as i too was tryna avoid a vets bill and i did x
 
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