Sarcoid almost gone!

My horse had a huge sarcoid removed in 1996 from his throat area as he kept catching it on the fence and it kept bleeding and attracting the flies. The vet called it an 'angleberry' a term you don't hear anymore. It is a huge sarcoid in other words. He cut it off with a scalpel and then put it in his palm and cut it in half to show me what it was made up of as I was really interested, it was really fibrous inside. I'm not sure if it would have grown back or not as the following year we lost the horse in a tragic accident, but the smaller sarcoids that he had (very small ones) I treated with Vitamin E cream from Superdrug or the like, one of the 99p ones, and I think it was the action of the rubbing motion on the sarcoid rather than the content of the cream but the little ones dissapeared. I wonder if your super cream has vitamin E in it out of interest??
 
PB - angleberries aren't sarcoids hun - they are benign warty growths. Not sure what your vet was talking about! Definition below for your reassurance:

Definition: Angleberry is an old term used by horse owners to describe what vets now more commonly call a Papilloma. It is a small raised benign tumour or warty growth which may be single or in clusters of multiple warts.

Although an angleberry is a papilloma it is not a sarcoid although it is frequently but incorrectly referred to as one. Angleberries are warts, but sarcoids are not warts.

Hope this helps x
 
BOF can papilloma warts be mistaken for sarcoids, we have a three year old who has a few sarcoid like lessions between his front legs legs in the creases, one of his hock, that are greyish but a rather larger one on his back, nodular, grey, and scaley we felt it was a rather unusual place for either a sarcoid or a wart, he also has a few on his sheath that look very wart like. Photos have been sent off to Liverpool for their opinion. I've come across papilomma warts frequently in younsters but usually always on the face. Just wondering.
 
Yup q4u, multiple warts on the faces of youngsters is very common - they usually disappear with no treatment whatsoever as the horse's immune system matures.

The problem with sarcoids is that loads of iffy lumps, bumps, warty things, scurfy patches, mini ulcers etc LOOK like sarcoids but aren't. The only way to identify a true sarcoid is by biopsy. But a biopsy is a no-no if it IS a sarcoid because the act of taking it can trigger an aggressive growth spurt. Sarcoids are skin cancers, everything else isn't. This in itself can cause confusion because if an owner decides to apply - oooh, I dunno - let's say toothpaste to a dodgy patch on her ned's skin that she believes to be a sarcoid, and then the dodgy patch (which ISN'T a sarcoid) clears up, then the logical belief is that toothpaste heals sarcoids.

My vets told me that the current thinking is that if something LOOKS like a sarcoid, then treat it as if it IS a sarcoid. That means a very cautious approach. Products that say things on the bottle like "aids rapid skin healing" are potentially very dangerous to put on a sarcoid. Sarcoids are skin cancers where the cells have lost their internal growth instructions. So you won't want to put anything on them to magnify the problem - tea tree and aloe vera gels come into this category.

The best advice I could ever give anyone is to read Prof Knottenbelt's definitive guide on sarcoids. He concludes by saying the only predictable thing about sarcoids is their UNpredictability.
 
My 3yr old had very similar symptoms. My vet referred her to Prof K who supplied Liverpool Cream. Most have now scabbed and gone, just a few scabs to drop off. She did however get a warty looking lump on her face just after the last vets visit to apply the cream. To put it mildly I was very upset to find another "sarcoid" Before I had chance to ring the vet the about the new lump it had been rubbed off and left a small fresh bit of skin. It's now grown back with hair and goodness knows what it was. As BOF says Prof K tends to treat all sarcoid looking lumps as sarcoids. Perhaps a lot of horses don't have true sarcoids but I'd rather mine was treated for them under the care of a reknowned expert.
 
ok thats good to know so will wait to see what the professor thinks of the photos, think they said they might wait a few months to see if they dissapear or see if they will start treatment with injections or the Liverpool Cream.
 
My vet asked me which route I wanted to try,so I said Blood Root cream and it has worked.Still a bit left but its going!! Sarcoids are nasty scaley things.yukkkk
 
My horse had 3 sarcoids last year which the vet treated with liverpool cream, 1 was in an area where the cream was just rubbed off (between back legs) and the whole of his back legs/bum area was raw from the cream. He couldn't walk properly he was in so much pain. It didn't get rid of the sarcoid and in fact now the whole area which was rubbed raw is a mass of hundreds of small sarcoids and of course as it is over a year later no longer covered by insurance.
 
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