Seedy Toe - sorry long one!

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Does anyone have any experience of severe seedy toe? My horse is very lame and on box rest after becoming very sore after having his foot resectioned?
He has had seedy toe since Christmas after moving to a new farrier and it being diagnosed. He resectioned some of the foot at that point and has checked it at every shoeing and re-sectioned more if need be. The seedy toe has been quite aggressive and we have struggled to keep on top of it - we have tried everything from cider vinegar, iodine, hoof disenfectant and we are now on hydroden peroxide! My horse has now been lame for five weeks now, some days barely being able to weight bare (at first we thought it was an abscess), the foot has been x-rayed a number of times and this is not showing anything. We have tried natural balance shoes and they did nothing, he is now in heart bar shoes with the front of the foot packed with an opening at the top where the active infection is. He has probably now had a quarter of the hoof wall removed. I am climbing the walls not knowing what to do so any suggestions welcome?
 
is seedy toe white line disease at the toe?

i think it is, there's a post in this forum on white line disease that may be worth a look

i use miltons for my boys white line disease, it's not so aggressive, but i think the best thing to use is cleantrax
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Thank you, I will have a look at this!
He has had seedy toe for quite some time now and what concerns me is that up until five weeks ago he was sound, it now worries me what is causing the lameness and is this only going to improve as the foot grows out - in which case I am looking at months? (This horse has had major problems over the last year or so! We have had numerous months of box rest, rehab work, and he is just coming back into work so see how he stands up - so I feel really gutted that this has now happened - he had problems with his sacroiliac).
 
i have real sympathy for you, my lads WLD got 2/3 of the way up his foot and it made him lame on circles in trot, your boy sounds much worse
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what helped my lad was to cut away as much infected white line as possible (2/3 of the hoof wall) as the bacteria/fungus don't like air, saok in milton for 15 mins 3 times a week, every day pick out all the flakey bits in the hole with a metal toothpick from boots, flush out every day with milton and pack the hole with animal lintex soaked in milton

it's a right pain

someone also told me copper sulphate (in vasaline?) can be used to pack the hole?
 
My mare had seedy toe last year, we cleared it up but she now has WLD, which is being tackled. Cleantrax seems to be the most recommended thing for treating it, although I have not tried it. There is no way I am going to keep her standing for 45 minutes in water-filled boots, then another 45 minutes in plastic bags!!
 
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