Stubborn mud fever - needed vet treatment

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My mare has persistent mud fever. Bet has been out and given flamazine cream but it's not clearing it up. Strongly she has a patch behind her knee as well as in the usual pattern area. I've persisted with the flamazine cream for 2 weeks and it's not for worse but not got better. She's now also on bute and norodine granules.

What treatments have other vets pescribed for your horses. My vets very open to suggestions so I can ask about something I want to try? Do you use antibiotics and steroid create on severe cases? I'm not so interested in over the counter type treatments and pig oil and sulphur as I've tried most!!!!!

Would also like to see other peoples photos of mud fever out of interest......

It's definatly not mitesas she is extremely prone to these. Has at least 4 dectomax courses a year ( 2 jabs 10 days apart) and we use frontline and lime sulphur washes..
 
Had a bad case to deal with that didn't respond to Flamazine and antibiotics, so had steriod tablets (100 of the pesky things a day) which helped along with sudocrem applied topically.
 
Steroids stop the immune system working.

I would opt for a steroid cream to start with personally and probably some biopsies of different areas to identify if it is mud fever or not - allergies and auto immune stuff all presents similarity too.
 
My horse had what we thought was mud fever, it refused to respond and she was really sore for weeks. Tried her on prednisolone, which, yes knocks the immune system out temporarily. However it gave the skin a chance and she's not had any trouble since, that was 4 years ago. Obviously you have to only treat an otherwise healthy horse with it and be lucky (no other infections etc) but it has sorted her out.
 
Yes, it was prednisolone. It wasn't the first option of treatment but it dealt with the inflammation and made it easier for her to tolerate me dealing with her legs. If you horse is otherwise healthy, a short course is probably not going to cause too much of a problem to the immune system, but obviously, your vet knows your horse and her condition and is better placed to advise.
Some people give a liver detox supplement apparently, but I just used a probiotic.
 
Sounds like mallanders (or sallanders; ones behind knee other's in front of hock) to me which you don't see so much of except in heavy legged horses now. Hard to get rid of, good antiseptic creams usually work used daily along with a look at the diet to make sure the overall health is good too. If a horse is well on the inside it will show on the outside.
 
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