Sweet itch crisis

[Jumbo]

For the past ten years I have controlled my horse's sweet itch with a boett rug and benzo benzoate but this year she has rubbed half her mane off and has bleeding sore patches. What can I put on them? I have just been using sudacream so far but they are getting worse. Are the midges worse this year?

 

[Natch]

You might want to get the vet to give her some steroids to calm it down. Do you think you have left the boett off at an inopportune time? Or it is damaged and they are getting in?

The other thing I can suggest is to move her, if possible. My henry had to go to horsepital and there were zero midges there - we joked that the place was kept so clean they wouldn't dare enter - and he was happy as larry without his boett for a month in June, I couldn't believe it!

 

[Jenna c bigg]

Hi. Hope yor mare is ok. I had a horse last year that suffered terribly with sweet itch. I used diluted Teatree oil in water to clear up the saws, it all so acts like a fly repelant, then once he was all better and healed i use to put viniger on him.
Smelly but very affective .

 

[thatsmygirl]

My lad trashed his boett last fri night and by Saturday morning I found him with no tail and big open sores which were bleeding and weeping.
Iv got a tube off cream from the vets which has calmed it right down so he isn't itching. It is steroid based and can only use it for 5 days max but has worked. I won't use the jab as it can bring on laminitis.