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armywag

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Has anyone had any luck with treatments??

Would be good to hear from you if you have!!
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Yes I have had very good success with Thuja cream, but depends how big they are? Are they ulcerated/weepy? What type are they? I think you have to be very careful with using 'alternative' treatments and wouldnt mess with them if they are bad ones
 
yes, Marley had a fibroblastic one on his belly just kind of inside his hind leg, the vet put lamb rings around it and it eventually fell off, thats was 3 months ago maybe more, and no signs of it returning as of yet

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I think they are the fibroblastic type. Although the vet never said. She has a clump of them inside her back legs so they rub when she moves.

They sometimes ulcer and bleed.
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She had a few ringed and they fell off. But she still has a big clump of them.

I do not actually own her anymore but still want to help the new owner to sort them out!!
 
I was recommended all sorts by my vet for the horse years ago that were expensive and couldnt guarantee that they would work. The edt i had at the time told me to use aloe vera gel as the horse had a huge one on the side of his face, that it would take a few weeks to get going but it would then dissapear. She was right took about a month before i started seeing the difference and about a month after that it was gone and this was getting up to the size of a fist. Never came back and there was no indication to ever say that he had one. Now i swear by aloe vera for all sorts of things.
 
One of mine had a very small sarcoid on his side (odd place I thought) which suddenly went gross last year and bled etc. Vet said I could try Liverpool cream but I just put Cut Heal on it and it healed up beautifully, so well that somehow it shrunk and what is left is a black dot! Cut Heal is brilliant for healing them if they go yucky.
 
Sorry - this is the link I actually wanted

http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/sarcoid/facts.htm

There are plenty of other things to try & lots of people who have had good success with natural treatments etc, but some sarcoids will get worse if you mess with them.

Also wrth noting that if you are going to use liverpool cream it is better not to use anything else first.
 
I have just had pictures sent to liverpool.

My vet said to use liverpool cream and if the results from liverpool say so aswell i will go down that route.

Hope you find something
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Regular BCG injections, my friends has has been having these and it is working, one has nearly gone and it was a nasty one too, the other are also shrinking, she is very pleased with the treatment and has found it is the only thing that has worked.
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we have a few horses at work with them and we use camarosa ointment on them twice daily with very good results.
 
My mare has one on her face. It doesn't bother her nor me so I haven't done anything and my vet said it is best to leave it alone, so if it isn't in an annoying place and doesn't bother the horse I would just leave it.
 
George had one on his belly about 2cm across and 2cm proud of the skin, he had the liverpool cream and it just shrunk away and dropped off. The vet said he might need some bute if it was painful and there could be an open wound for a little while but thankfully neither of these happened. There is just a little scar now.
 
Mine had two treatments of the liverpool cream and his just dried up and fell off and it hasn't come back he did get a little depressed with it though as it was painful and a little swollen
 
Hovis had one treated with sarc off and one with liverpool cream. Both died and touch wood have not come back yet. The liverpool cream was horrible but worked well. Hovis had bute whilst having it treated and i had to take his martingale off.
 
I use Bazooka cream from the chemists it is sold for spots and acne. Remove nasty sarcoids vet said they would come back. They did not.
 
I use Thuja tincture, which you give orally for two weeks and also rub it in the sarcoid.I've been successful with it and so did a friend who had big problems around her horses sheath.
 
Be very, very careful before doing anything. A couple of the treatments mentioned here - aloe vera & camrosa - may clear them BUT they may make them a hell of a lot worse. If you read around about sarcoids you will find 2 things repeated over & over again:
1) Sarcoids are unpredictable. What works for one type of sarcoid on one horse might not work elsewhere.
2) Not everything that looks like a sarcoid is a sarcoid, the only way to be 100% sure is a biopsy. However doing a biopsy can make sarcoids worse so Vets usually assume it's a sarcoid & work from there. So some of the alternative remedies might have been curing something else entirely - the bazooka may have cured a wart for example.
I would get the owner to have a chat about the options with the Vet - if it's somewhere that rubs, Liverpool Cream may not be appropriate - although my mare has had 2 sarcoids banded then injected with the cream for that reason. If you try other things first you may not be able to use Liverpool Cream. The cream itself isn't that expensive - mine was about £80 - but it must be applied by a Vet (and any Vet who leaves it with a client risks stopping it being supplied to anyone!) so the call outs are what makes the price go up. If you can time the treatment so that it coincides with the Vet coming out for something else e.g. jabs it helps to bring the cost down.
One warning about the Liverpool Cream it can (although doesn't always) take a long time for the scabs to come off when applied topically. My mare had the cream applied to 3 more at the same time the others were banded - 4 months later the scabs are still well attached. Typically the ones that have healed (the injected ones) I could have carried on riding with, the ones that haven't yet are in saddle & girth areas!
I'm now trying Sarc Ex to see if it has any impact on the others (I stop counting at 30!) but it's too early to tell yet as I've only been using it for 3 weeks.
 
I have eventually had a big sarcoid drop off my horse's chest, after using homeopathic remedies sent by Crossgates Farm. It took a long time and nerves of steel I have to say, and I did get a vet to diagnose what type of sarcoid it was before contacting Crossgates. I have always had good results from homeopathic remedies, when provided by a holistic vet (Tim Couzens) or Crossgates Farm, but maybe some people would see that as a risky course of action.
 
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