mccarron6769
Well-Known Member
Thought this might be a useful place to warn people to be aware of Pin worms.
I bought a horse last October who had rubbed the top of his tail. I had a 5 stage vetting and the vet commented on it but said there was no declared history of sweet itch.
Within a couple of months he was starting to rub his tail so much his bum was getting big bald patches. I called out my local vet who thought it may be being caused by bites because of the unusually mild weather we had last November. I commented that the tail seemed to be just in the way and it was his anal area he seemed to be irritated by.
He was prescribed cream and left at that. I happened to be near him when he went to do a poop and caught it in a skip bucket and could have sworn that a flat white worm came out at the end. I couldn't find it in the bucket so started to think I'd imagined it but caught another one a few days later and got hold of it.
I did some research on the internet and found info about pinworms which to be honest I'd never heard of but it was a perfect desription of the symptoms. I rang the vet who advised to give a particular type of wormer (despite the fact that he'd already been wormed when he first arrived), that covered pin worms and it did the trick.
The comments about pin worms were that they are often mistaken for sweet itch and yet I had two vets not even consider it.
So remember ! Vets don't always have the right answers !!!
I bought a horse last October who had rubbed the top of his tail. I had a 5 stage vetting and the vet commented on it but said there was no declared history of sweet itch.
Within a couple of months he was starting to rub his tail so much his bum was getting big bald patches. I called out my local vet who thought it may be being caused by bites because of the unusually mild weather we had last November. I commented that the tail seemed to be just in the way and it was his anal area he seemed to be irritated by.
He was prescribed cream and left at that. I happened to be near him when he went to do a poop and caught it in a skip bucket and could have sworn that a flat white worm came out at the end. I couldn't find it in the bucket so started to think I'd imagined it but caught another one a few days later and got hold of it.
I did some research on the internet and found info about pinworms which to be honest I'd never heard of but it was a perfect desription of the symptoms. I rang the vet who advised to give a particular type of wormer (despite the fact that he'd already been wormed when he first arrived), that covered pin worms and it did the trick.
The comments about pin worms were that they are often mistaken for sweet itch and yet I had two vets not even consider it.
So remember ! Vets don't always have the right answers !!!