Sarcoid treatment options?

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This has probably already been asked many times lol but one more time wont hurt :)

Well basically my horse has one of the flat, bumpy, scaley grey coloured sarcoids on his chest :( ive had him over two years and in this time has doubled in size, is about an inch big atm ... so was looking to no what treatment the is and if it works? And roughly how much it usually costs!? Oh and how long the treatment takes to work? And does it scar? And the last question ... can you still ride whilst on treatment? :P

Thanks in advance for any replies :) there is alot of questions :D
 
i use Newmarket Bloodroot Ointment, get it from my vet, it was about £30-40 a pot iirc (only need 1 pot), could still ride when horse was on it, got rid of sarcoids completely. i put vaseline around the sarcoids to protect the surrounding area before applying it. it scarred slightly, left a flat area of smooth skin with no hair, but compared to a sarcoid i thought that was great. took about a week or so of treatment and sarcoids had gone in about a month iirc. worked for mine.
 
my lad had the liverpool treatment on 4 of varying shapes and sizes,all gone and never returned(4yrs ago) all have a small black patch of smooth bald skin but compared to a sarcoids i would suffer 20+ bald bits :D
 
Just been quoted £500 for laser surgery plus about 1k for GA to have it done. Not cheap, but seems like a good way to do it if horse is insured. The flat ones won't freeze off very well.
 
My mare has just gone through a course of treatment of Liverpool cream. Cost a lot of money, nearly £800! The treatment finished about a week ago and the four sarcoids have scabbed over. Waiting for the scabs to drop off. I didn't ride while she was having treatment because of the location of one sarcoid just by the girth area, however she is back in full work now. Good Luck with whatever course of treatment you decide to take. :)
 
Cured some nastie sarcoids with Bazooka from the chemists. My vet wanted the expensive treatment and said it would come back but it did not. Worth trying as is cheap and you can always have the expensive tretment after but next time treat as soon as you see.
 
I've had good success on these types of sarcoids with Thuja ointment (you can buy it off the web)

It doesn't sting or anything and so it very easy to apply. You need to put it on religiously twice a day. For a while it seems like nothing is happening and then after about 2 weeks you start to feel the sarcoid going spongy and soft. Another few days and it just slips off. Never had an scars and never had one come back

I would only use it on non-weeping ones though
 
hi, having used most of the above without success I found www.animoils.co.uk. This within a month cured most and a bit longer for the rest. They had all been pretreated so there are small scars but are not a problem. I had fantastic backup support even when feeling despondent. If you like I have lots and lots of pictures of the healing process. Good luck.
 
Firstly, I would ask your vet to send pics to Derek Knottenbelt at Liverpool, who's a sarcoid expert, and he will be able to say whether they are really sarcoids and what type.

In the meantime, don't put ANYTHING on them that your vet hasn't recommended, especially stuff like aloe vera and camrosa - they both stimulate cell growth, and the last thing you want to do is make a type of skin cancer grow more. Prof Knottenbelt showed us some absolutely horrendous pictures of horses who's owners had used camrosa on sarcoids with disastrous results. Many lumps and bumps get called sarcoids when they aren't, so people then think that they have cured a sarcoid when in fact it was something else. Think of it as, you wouldn't put random creams on yourself if you had skin cancer, so why would you do it to your horse?

There are a few different treatments now for sarcoids, including liverpool cream, banding, freezing and laser, and it will depend on the type of sarcoid your horse has as to what treatment is best. Your vet and Prof K will be able to advise you further.
 
Derek Knottenbelt has a website anout sarcoids. I strongly recommend that you read it. Ignore anybody who tells you marmite or toothpaste worked - it probably wasn't a sarcoid in the first place. And definitely, under no circumstances whatsoever, use aloe vera. I don't care what a particular company who plug the stuff as the cure for everything say, it's got it's uses but sarcoids are not one of them. As another poster said sarcoids are cancer - run away cell growth & aloe vera stimulates cell growth.
 
Murphy88 said:
Firstly, I would ask your vet to send pics to Derek Knottenbelt at Liverpool, who's a sarcoid expert, and he will be able to say whether they are really sarcoids and what type.

In the meantime, don't put ANYTHING on them that your vet hasn't recommended, especially stuff like aloe vera and camrosa - they both stimulate cell growth, and the last thing you want to do is make a type of skin cancer grow more. Prof Knottenbelt showed us some absolutely horrendous pictures of horses who's owners had used camrosa on sarcoids with disastrous results. Many lumps and bumps get called sarcoids when they aren't, so people then think that they have cured a sarcoid when in fact it was something else. Think of it as, you wouldn't put random creams on yourself if you had skin cancer, so why would you do it to your horse?

There are a few different treatments now for sarcoids, including liverpool cream, banding, freezing and laser, and it will depend on the type of sarcoid your horse has as to what treatment is best. Your vet and Prof K will be able to advise you further.
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I have been waiting for liverpool for my girl's sarcoids since March, and still haven't heard from Prof Knottenbelt, despite my vet contacting them frequently :( I'm quite fed up as the bad one is slowly getting worse, and has been bleeding a tiny bit. :(
 
Derek Knottenbelt looked at my boy's sarcs and said that as they'd previously been treated it was very unlikely that they would be cured by any means. They are all completely gone now, having been treated with the essential oils recommended by the Animoils.
The horse has a test done to determine the correct ones to use.

Hope this helps you.
 
My horse has a sarcoid and Im using Blood Root cream,working really well. It was huge last year and now its the size of my thumbnail,so its going gradulally.Be glad when its gone!
 
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hairycob said:
Derek Knottenbelt has a website anout sarcoids. I strongly recommend that you read it. Ignore anybody who tells you marmite or toothpaste worked - it probably wasn't a sarcoid in the first place. And definitely, under no circumstances whatsoever, use aloe vera. I don't care what a particular company who plug the stuff as the cure for everything say, it's got it's uses but sarcoids are not one of them. As another poster said sarcoids are cancer - run away cell growth & aloe vera stimulates cell growth.
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Darn i was convinced it was a sarcoid and after looking at this im starting to think it maight be a wart! But i didnt no warts grew! hmmm i think my horse shall be getting a visit from the vet lol
 
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