Sore and red heel on white sock

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elizabethshaw

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anyone have an idea what this could be - our yearling has one white sock. last week it was a little swollen and then suddenly the heel area is red and sore, and a bit oozy. have hibiscrubbed and put on heel to hoof but not clearing although not swollen now. it looks like mud fever/scratches - maybe the skin was grazed and the organism entered. Any one got other ideas or other treatments?
 
Photosensitivity.

There seems to be loads of it about this year. Can be caused by buttercups / clover / dog weed & various other things - either injested or on contact.
Causes the pink skin to become more suseptible (sp) to the sun & they then get v bad sunburn.

My new boy has had it on all 4 (white) legs & muzzle.

If it's bad you'll need to box rest (out of sun) & get antibiotics, bute & cream from vet.
 
I'd be totally amazed if it's sunburn QB! We have had about 5 mins of sunshine in the last month or so (feels like that anyway!). With such a wet summer it's far more likely to be mud fever. Doesn't need much to start it off if the bacteria is present in your soil - just having constantly damp skin and mild abrasion from the ground conditions can kick it off. And my understanding is that white areas of skin can be more prone to all sorts of problems. The solution is management: hibiscrub, scrupulously clean legs, don't turn out onto wet, muddy fields. If you suspect an opportunistic infection on top of the mud fever, I'd have a word with the vet as your baby may need the help of antibx for a week or so.
 
You need to get some Flamazine cream from your vet - one of mine had this problem at the beginning of July and my vet said it is dermatitis. She said to thoroughly wash and dry the legs then apply the cream. Takes about 2 weeks to clear it!
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My horse has exactly the same problem! We thought it might be fungal after we found that different mudfever creams didn't have an affect! However, we've narrowed it down to mudfever and have been hibiscrubbing and applying flamazine cream to the infected area for nearly 2 weeks and already the problem has started to clear up! (thank god!) It was very red, very sore and oozing pus - gross! Someone else on our yard uses nappy cream to protect the area and stop moisture getting in as it also is anti bacterial - but that's a prevention rather than a cure.
 
thanks guys - seems to sound like MF - getting the vet in tomorrow anyway, so will get him to have a look. Has anyone used Camrosa for MF?
 
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