Selsun Shampoo for Mud Fever?

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My mare came in lame tonight ... So i'm told as i put my back out yesterday so havent seen her for two days :mad: and we think it might be her mud fever which she is known for (I've had her nearly two weeks and her current bringing in routine is to wash all legs off with hose before going in the stable and with working i havent really had a good look at her legs although they seem ok, a bit scabby perhaps but i think she has been very lucky so far as she came from a swamp of a field before going on to decent enough grazing with me and nights in the stable on shavings.

I did give her legs a good going over at the weekend and covered them in Lincoln muddy powder!

If it is mud fever has anyone had any luck with Selsun shampoo? Its a medicated shampoo which i have at home for my dermatitis. I've suffered from dermatitis for years now (on my face) to the point of it crippling my confidence and taking days off sick until its 'calmed down' ~I then came across Selsun shampoo and people always say how lovely my skin is ... if only they knew, lol :o

For me this stuff is amazing and i get a tingle in my skin if i know its going to flare up so a couple of days of washing my face with Selsun and it never flares up :D

Could washing her lower legs with warm water and a good lather of Selsun and then rinise and then slapping on some Sudacrem be the answer?

SELSUN
SHAMPOO 2.5% W/V (SELENIUM SULPHIDE)

Thanks for any advise, stories on this product. This is a medicated shampoo for dandruff .... I use this on my face for Dermatitis.
 
I would stop washing her legs it'll make it worse, just let the mud dry on the legs.

Never heard of the shampoo you mention, but I have used Nizarol medicated shampoo before with good results, you could check if they have the same ingredients?
 
Thanks will check that out now. I will put a stop to the washing, its a yard routine so have been going with the flow but will halt that.

Perhaps a day or two inside to really dry them out perhaps? and get them covered in protection?

I see you are in Bucks as well :) *waves*
 
Yeah its been so wet it's hardly surprising she has mud fever. I would just wash her legs when she comes in at night with the Nizarol shampoo and let them dry over night in stable. Then smother her legs in Vaseline or similar in the morning and turn her out. You will only need to use the shampoo for a few days before you see a difference and then just do it once a week to stop it coming back. Washing legs daily when she doesn't have mud fever will certainly bring it back.

Where abouts in bucks are you? *waves back!*
 
Selsun is fine; also used with great effect for mites. But I think that Sudacrem has been mentioned before as a problem. Need to let the air get at the skin so smothering in something greasy isn't good. I'll see if I can find the reference.
 
CobsGalore said:
Yeah its been so wet it's hardly surprising she has mud fever. I would just wash her legs when she comes in at night with the Nizarol shampoo and let them dry over night in stable. Then smother her legs in Vaseline or similar in the morning and turn her out. You will only need to use the shampoo for a few days before you see a difference and then just do it once a week to stop it coming back. Washing legs daily when she doesn't have mud fever will certainly bring it back.

Where abouts in bucks are you? *waves back!*
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Aylesbury here :)

HappyHooves said:
Selsun is fine; also used with great effect for mites. But I think that Sudacrem has been mentioned before as a problem. Need to let the air get at the skin so smothering in something greasy isn't good. I'll see if I can find the reference.
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Thanks much appreciated. Will give that a miss then. Hope to report back on the Selsun as i know its something i couldnt live without :p
 
CobsGalore said:
I would stop washing her legs it'll make it worse, just let the mud dry on the legs.

Never heard of the shampoo you mention, but I have used Nizarol medicated shampoo before with good results, you could check if they have the same ingredients?
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Definately use Nizoral shampoo - works very well. You can buy it from the chemist.
Dilute with hand hot water and lather up well working well into the hair. Wash well beyond the currently affected area as mudfever likes to spread outwards.

You can leave the shampoo to dry. Usually it sorts it out within days.
 
I've just been treating mud fever over the past few weeks and with a combination of Nizarol shampoo, aloe Vera gel when stabled and pig oil when turned out (without sulphur) the mud fever has almost gone. I haven't picked scabs so there's no open wounds. I have hosed mud off everyday (it falls off very easily due to the oil) and patted dry with clean blue tissue, had the odd day in when he's been worked hard in the school and fields have been swamps and all brushes have been disinfected every few days. It has 90% gone in the past few weeks, and still getting better.

He had it on both hind feet, all around coronet about a 4cm band of scabs. Now just a few small scabs left.
 
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