Seedy Toe - Please Help!

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My TB has quite bad seedy toe at the moment around the bottom of every one of her feet. She isnt lame and the farrier has dug out holes in the hoof wall to let the infected areas breathe.

Does anyone know what causes seedy toe?

Anyway the farrier has said we really dont want it getting any worse and has advised that i put antibacterial stuff in the holes to stop it from getting more infected. Shes a right pain for the farrier anyway so im desperate to get this sorted.

Im using just bog standard antibacterial cream on her feet at the mo but have looked on the internet and found numerous antibacterial disinfectant for horses hooves. Such as solution 4 feet, life data hoof disenfectant, keratex hoof disenfectant, anti-bac etc

Has anyone used any of these successfully with seedy toe?

Im guessing i'll just have to wait untill these holes grow out of her feet now but im worried as it seems that everytime the farrier comes hes having to dig out more and more and they are getting larger! Its affecting also where he can put the nails.

Any help as to how I can make it better will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
people have had good results with cleantrax

seedy toe is another name for white line disease and its caused by bacteria and fungi eating away at the hoof white line and creating a white powdery substance that just comes away and leaves a hole


over the winter i took his shoes off so i could get at the white line
i used milton sterilising fliud on my lad, soaked each foot in it for 15 minutes- one tablet per foot.
then stuffed the holes with animal lintex to keep the dirt out
did that 3 times a week

by spring time his feet were good to shoe again

here's an article i found

http://petcaretips.net/white_line_disease.html
 
My mare gets it quite often.

your doing the right thing putting antibacterial stuff in the holes, I use tcp soaked cotton wool, or just plain cotton wool under the shoe (damp and no air equals an infection) but but if shes not shod and its open use antibacterial stuff.

if her feet are soft or crumbly like mine, keratex hoof hardner works well.
 
Thanks tea biscuit the article was interesting.

Im confused though as i've heard some disenfectants are drying and can caused the hoof wall to become brittle. Obviously I want to get rid of the bacteria causing it but being a TB her hooves arent the strongest and I dont want to make them brittle.

Btotheethany TCP is similar to what im using, im using white antibacterial cream normally used for cuts and abrasions, im putting in the holes with a little brush once a day....
 
the only thing that helped my shetland was something called Bactakill 55 or something like that? i tried a lot of the other products on the market but it was that stuff that cleared it up.. from memory they use it for cattle?
 
Hydrogen Peroxide from the chemist was recommended by my farrier for this. Apply it with a syringe for accuracy and it bubbles away. Use rubber gloves when doing it though.
Seedy toe can be an onset to laminitis, so you really need to make sure you do her feet thoroughly and daily.
 
My horse had this and it is indeed frustrating.

Its a fungal infection in the white line - I think of it as atheletes foot for horses.

I applied bleach to the affected areas every 2nd day and this seemed to work, the vet recommended this.

If you do not like the thought of this (I didnt either) try Bactokill 55. It helped to clear up my heavy horse's thrush - he got it because he has deep clefts in his frogs, not through mad management.
 
Cheap and most effective method I have used is to soak each hoof for 10 mins in a Borax solution, was the only thing that worked on my mare who is very prone to it. Just once is usually enough.
 
My mare is slowly growing out her seedy toe. I have been cleaning it out since February, but up until June I was using hydrogen peroxide then washing it out with (insert name of another disinfectant here, cannot remember for the life of me what it was!) and plugging the holes with cotton wool soaked in gentian violet (purple spray). I got fed up of the seedy toe carrying on (I did plug it with Keratex putty at one point for about a month, but I obviously tried it too soon because I had to get the farrier to open the holes and start again) so I called my vet and she suggested I tried a combination of hydrogen peroxide and pevidine. I don't plug the holes now as I find it is healing much quicker by being allowed to breathe and I pick out her feet at least twice a day. I also have her on a hoof supplement to help her feet grow the holes out. *touch wood* it all seems to be working!
 
Thanks for all your comments. Ive got lots of ways to try now so hopefully one of them will get rid of it!
 
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