What is this rash!!!! (pics)

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Hi my horse had a slight touch of mud fever when i first brought her in in november to stable, i washed and treated it and it cleared up from the white heel. however now 3 months on a strange rash has started on her back legs... she had this last year when i origionally got her but it cleared up so didn't worry to much about it.

now it has come back again and its really unsightly, i have been putting sudocrem on it but im confused wat it is?? it is itchy now aswell!

what can i do with this or anyone know wat it is?? there is no rash on the heels now at all and there was a break from the mud fever to this?? is this just a form of mud fever???

thanks all

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is she bandage or booted up at all on a regular basis? my boy had this when he had an injury and needed bandaging 6 hours during the day time. we put it down to sweating under the bandage. you could pull clumps of hair out with like skin attached, but it wasnt sore, just itchy. we hibiscrubbed like mad and let it dry out. we changed to leather boots as he didnt sweat underneath them.
we called it mud fever, not entirely sure if it was though
 
Horse at our yard had something similar and I'm pretty sure the vet prescribed Frontline and treated it as mites. Couldnt see anything in the fur but the treatment seemed to clear it up.
 
is the hair coming out in small lumps with a greasy clump th the end nearest the skin? If so my TB mare uses to get it If i had ridden her with boots or bandages and not hoses/ hibiscribed her legs when took them off. (same as Tanya1989)
I hibiscrubbed her daily and cleared up in a week or so.
 
Tanya no she wears no boots or bandages at all.

izzwizz would our other horses not have some form of it? or can it just be on one horse?

dexi no the hair is not coming out in clumps is it dry and when you scratch it the hair falls out. it is scabby in places too.

aww im so confused its so ugly
 
it oculd possibly be the start of the mud fever returning (stupid infection! argh!)

id maybe just make sure you wash and dry it thoroughly and apply whatever treatment you were given the first time round for the mud fever.
Or if you are really concerned get the vet out to check and do a skin test first!
 
I'd get them washed with some hibi for a week/daily and then continue with some antifungal/T-tree shampoo on a weekly basis, get rid of the old dead skin/hair then bob something on to promote new hair growth once the infection has cleared up.

Flamozine cream would be my choice to treat it with but its prescription only, however if you have bought it from your vet before (if been treated fro mud fever before) then they might just let you order some more without a visit, our local vet does anyway...not sure if he's supposed to hey ho.
 
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what promotes hairgrowth?

i will start the hibi every day then see how that goes... is there anything you recommend to pud on after it drys from being washed?

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No I personally wouldn’t put anything on it for the movement apart from flamezine cream (if you can get that) or another form of antiseptic cream (if there is any sore skin/chapped skin) because it looks like it could be a fungal infection.

If your washing the area every day to de-scale the dead skin (with antibacterial shampoo) then make suer you dry the legs off properly with a clean towel every time.

Ideally if there are no soars etc then I wouldn’t put anything on it, because the oxygen needs to get into the skin so I wouldn’t plaster any barrier creams on.

Aslo remember to sterilise your grooming kit which a lot of people forget to do.
 
ive seen a rash like this on a friend horse it was alergic to tiny spiders in long grass areas its to do with them biteing the legs and its the reaction it got its saliva yours may be diffrent but hers was itchy then bald then pussy she put a barrier cream on to stop the spiders that are really really tiny getting on the legs , the other 2 horses were unafected just the one
 
I think it is connected to the mud fever. My chap has had same for last 3 years as a result of being out 24/7 and being in a field that at times resembles a paddy field. Once field started to dry up he was fine. No problems this year as he is stabled.
 
Mine gets this going into summer even though she isnt booted when turned out, she isnt sore though just clumps of skin which you can pick of or they come of when you wash and scrub, I think its like greasy skin, hibiscrub always does the trick but dont as others have said put anything on as it will be more greasy.
 
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