Thrush/peroxide

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My lovely loan boy has very severe thrush (went from mild to really bad practically overnight despite daily cleaning with cider vinegar etc). Vet came out ten days ago and recommended flushing with iodine twice daily, so have been doing that. He saw the farrier today (isn't shod), who has trimmed back all the dead frog tissue and recommended that we skoosh peroxide deep into the cleft and any remaining cracks.
Question is I assume he meant hydrogen peroxide?
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Is that what I ask for at the chemist?
And also how much should I dilute it?

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Yes you can get it from the chemists and it comes in a very low % anyway - about 3% so I don't think you'll need to dilute it. But do wear gloves and watch your clothes when you use it as it is still enough to bave a mild bleach affect your skin/clothes.
 
Thanks v much - am well stocked up on latex gloves lol - after having to go out at the weekend looking like the world's heaviest smoker due to the iodine all over my hands!
 
Ditto Ludi_doodi about the peroxide, but also - did your vet give you anything to dry it out? Terramycin (sheep foot rot spray) and sprays of similar names and compositions are commonly used, but having run out of Terramycin I have started using purple spray... fab stuff, my mare had gunky deep clefts and with literally two iodine flushes and one spray of purple her cleft is bone dry and has been for two weeks now! I clear any muck out of it every day, but so far no gunk has re-appeared. Purple spray is considerably cheaper than Terramycin too!
 
I am dealing with another round of bad thrush on my draft mare in her hind hooves. We have had one long day and evening of rain and by morning she was dead lame again. *sigh* I am cleaning out the clefts on either side of the frog real well, brushing it with a hard bristle brush then putting something what we get here in the states called koppertox.

Babybells, does the tea tree oil really help? I use the oil in my salves for wounds and small scrapes and cuts and it helps a lot in that area.
 
Nope, the vet said iodine only. I assume before you think about using any of the products that can plug the cracks (thinking stockholm tar, the putty stuff you can get etc) you need to get rid of as much of the infection as possible?
His feet are looking much better now the dead tissue has been trimmed back by the farrier, although not sure how long it will last given the weather we've had for the last few days
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Had been using cider vinegar every day, purple spray every other day and hibiscrub once a week as a preventative before this happened, but it obviously wasn't enough!
 
yes tea tree does work it is a natuaral antifunal and antibacterical do that with alone purple spray and idion it has always cleard my horses feed up!
 
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Nope, the vet said iodine only. I assume before you think about using any of the products that can plug the cracks (thinking stockholm tar, the putty stuff you can get etc) you need to get rid of as much of the infection as possible?

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YES! Definitely - sealing the gunk in will only make it worse.
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Stockholm tar is a lot more than just somthing to seal the frog.It is an extremely powerful bactericide and fungicide.
It also has a long lasting action .Hydrogen peroxide and hibiscrub are a waste of time.
 
Silmarillion- Thanks! At least I know where to make a start now.

Mike - the peroxide was recommended by the farrier, who, in turn, came highly recommended by the vet as having helped to cure some of the worst cases of thrush he had ever seen. He hasn't actually suggested plugging the clefts yet, that was probably me getting ahead of myself as usual!
 
Have you thought of soaks? You can try cider vinegar solution or cleantrax. The soaks once or twice a week may help as well.
 
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Silmarillion- Thanks! At least I know where to make a start now.

Mike - the peroxide was recommended by the farrier, who, in turn, came highly recommended by the vet as having helped to cure some of the worst cases of thrush he had ever seen. He hasn't actually suggested plugging the clefts yet, that was probably me getting ahead of myself as usual!

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Peroxide acts by oxidising organic material ,by its breakdown to water and oxygen.It has no residual effect and the odds of it penetrating to the seat of the infection deep in the frog are ....ZERO!!. Stockholm Tar !
 
Cheers, I will speak to the farrier and find out if he thinks that's the way to go. For what it's worth, he did say to use a plastic syringe to get it deep into the clefts, so that's what we've been doing.
 
Thanks for all the info guys - got some more reading to do! Wildwoman - he's not in work at the moment, it's taking an absolute age to clean up. The farrier had another look on Friday and seems relatively pleased with the progress though, so will just have to keep at it. Sick of the bloody rain though!
 
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