Birker2020
Well-Known Member
Well after waiting to see if the treatment the vet had given me had cleared up my horses itching I finally admitted defeat and I called the vet out last Thursday morning. She arrived in the evening after work and gave my horse an ivermectin wormer up his bottom and a steroid injection to calm the itching. She felt it was pinworm as the marks on either side of his anus were so localized, and not typical of a skin problem, or reaction to feed/hay.
She said Ivermectin was the best wormer to use now as the pinworms have such a resistance to Pyrantel. She says its a huge problem as there is so much resistance due to overworming. So she said to continue with the mud fever cream around his bottom and she would take a sample with sellotape around the anus and ring me to let me know the outcome when she had chance to look at it under the slide on the microscope.
She also gave me some two syringes of steroid for me to give him orally, one on the Friday night and one on the Saturday night.
She rang me the next day to say that my horse had 'quite a lot' of eggs showing up on the slide and to continue with the selenium sulphide and then the pinworm wash one day, the next day just the pinworm wash, and so on for three to five days and to keep on with the mud fever cream. She said the eggs don't live outside the body for long so didn't feel it necessary to wash rugs/ dispose of bedding and said that you don't normally see an outbreak on a yard - just one single horse affected.
Goodness knows where he's picked them up from. He hasn't been wormed for about 18 months to two years now as I've been using worm counts so maybe this isn't the best thing to do. So confused.
This weekend I've not seen him scratch once, but I think this is down to the steroids he's had to stop the scratching. We are hoping we can clear it up quickly, last time it responded very well to the treatment I gave him.
She said Ivermectin was the best wormer to use now as the pinworms have such a resistance to Pyrantel. She says its a huge problem as there is so much resistance due to overworming. So she said to continue with the mud fever cream around his bottom and she would take a sample with sellotape around the anus and ring me to let me know the outcome when she had chance to look at it under the slide on the microscope.
She also gave me some two syringes of steroid for me to give him orally, one on the Friday night and one on the Saturday night.
She rang me the next day to say that my horse had 'quite a lot' of eggs showing up on the slide and to continue with the selenium sulphide and then the pinworm wash one day, the next day just the pinworm wash, and so on for three to five days and to keep on with the mud fever cream. She said the eggs don't live outside the body for long so didn't feel it necessary to wash rugs/ dispose of bedding and said that you don't normally see an outbreak on a yard - just one single horse affected.
Goodness knows where he's picked them up from. He hasn't been wormed for about 18 months to two years now as I've been using worm counts so maybe this isn't the best thing to do. So confused.
This weekend I've not seen him scratch once, but I think this is down to the steroids he's had to stop the scratching. We are hoping we can clear it up quickly, last time it responded very well to the treatment I gave him.
