Sarcoid growth

[Birker2020]

Sometimes sarcoids are referred to as angleberries, however, they are not angleberries. Angleberries are warts that are caused by the papilloma virus. Sarcoids are not warts. Also, angleberries usually appear on young horses who do not have a well developed immune system, as yet, or on ponies. Angleberries are not a problem other than they are unsightly. As the young horse matures the angleberries usually disappear on their own.
http://horsehints.org/Sarcoids.htm

I don't know. I was told it was a sarcoid by the vet at the time.

 

[Dexter]

Birker2920 if you are going to rely on google searches you need to be more critical about them.

Theres a free course here that you might find useful

 

[ycbm]

Sometimes sarcoids are referred to as angleberries, however, they are not angleberries. Angleberries are warts that are caused by the papilloma virus. Sarcoids are not warts. Also, angleberries usually appear on young horses who do not have a well developed immune system, as yet, or on ponies. Angleberries are not a problem other than they are unsightly. As the young horse matures the angleberries usually disappear on their own.
http://horsehints.org/Sarcoids.htm

I don't know. I was told it was a sarcoid by the vet at the time.

Stop looking at, and quoting, "horsey owner" sites and look at the professional vets' current information B.

 

[GreyDot]

The blue colour is just whatever dye they use in antibiotic spray. I use it occasionally on the site of the flat sarcoid (scaly area) which erupted in anger at being disturbed by the banding before settling down again.

The photo below was about 6 weeks after the banding. The angry red protuberance is what was left after a huge scab covering the whole flat sarcoid had lifted off. The vet had left the flat sarcoid alone as it is near the stifle joint, but it still got upset.

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Same area today, fingers crossed looking calm 8 months after banding. There's a small scabby bit left which takes hold of the dye, and the vet says to leave it well alone!

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@Tiddlypom That is really encouraging, hopefully it all stays calm there, looks much better!

 

[Birker2020]

Stop looking at, and quoting, "horsey owner" sites and look at the professional vets' current information B.

Yes maybe you'd like to show me what you mean then?. Find a 'professional vets current info' where it says an angleberry is the same as a sarcoid because I cant find anything yet I've found three seperate sites that state that the two are different.

 

[Birker2020]

Birker2920 if you are going to rely on google searches you need to be more critical about them.

Theres a free course here that you might find useful

how very, very patronising.

 

[ycbm]

Yes maybe you'd like to show me what you mean then?. Find a 'professional vets current info' where it says an angleberry is the same as a sarcoid because I cant find anything yet I've found three seperate sites that state that the two are different.

Sarcoids are the most common nodular skin disease of the horse. They are locally invasive fibroblastic skin tumours. They are commonly known as “warts” or “angleberries”.

If you Google "sarcoid angleberry" this is the very first in the resulting list, from a site called "equine-vets.com"


And this from a report by Derek Knottenbelt, probably the world's biggest sarcoid expert.

4. Fibroblastic sarcoid:

These tumours have a characteristic fleshy appearance and this type is commonly referred to as “Angleberries” (a name that should be used only for a visually similar type of skin tumour in cattle).

http://www.arabianlines.com/horse_health/Liverpool_uni/sarcoids.htm



I'm sorry B, but you really do need to hone your Google skills and stop latching onto the first thing you come across that confirms what you want to believe. This is far from the first thread you've done this on. Google is very, very useful but it's also often very wrong.
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[Dexter]

how very, very patronising.

It was a genuine attempt to help you from making silly possibly harmful mistakes, as has been pointed out by several others you cant just google and share it as being a fact.

 

[Birker2020]

Ok i apologise, first day back at work and busy and googled it, and two other sites showed the same info i quoted.

I did think it was strange, as i said my vet removed an angleberry from my horses neck with a scalpel, he said it was a sarcoid . Cut it in half, passed me the scalpel which he told me to run along the inside. It was really rough like sandpaper. Fascinating.

 

[jules9203]

Unfortunately, having experienced a mare with increasing, variable, sarcoids there is no 100% treatment. My mare grew a sarcoid very nr her girth area, when she was 10yrs. I treated treating it with banding and building from there. Each time it has grown back more aggressively. She is now 23 but has many more sarcoids and varying types. I have tried many treatments including herbal. One of the main herbal FB sites told me that it hadn't worked because I didn't believe, whilst expecting me to spend a large amount of £ on a monthly basis. When I spoke to my vet about them (in the spring) I was told that laser treatment was the best but still only 60-70% succesfull

 

[Puzzled]

Have a look on sarcoid cure page on Facebook.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

Unfortunately, having experienced a mare with increasing, variable, sarcoids there is no 100% treatment. My mare grew a sarcoid very nr her girth area, when she was 10yrs. I treated treating it with banding and building from there. Each time it has grown back more aggressively. She is now 23 but has many more sarcoids and varying types. I have tried many treatments including herbal. One of the main herbal FB sites told me that it hadn't worked because I didn't believe, whilst expecting me to spend a large amount of £ on a monthly basis. When I spoke to my vet about them (in the spring) I was told that laser treatment was the best but still only 60-70% succesfull

that wasn’t the one with the yellow looking paste was it? And a herbal mix to be fed I think if I remember correctly

 

[jules9203]

that wasn’t the one with the yellow looking paste was it? And a herbal mix to be fed I think if I remember correctly

Yes it was