Treatment of summer sores include deworming the horse with ivermectin or similar class dewormers such as moxidectin or Ivermectin Gold to kill the fly larvae in the wound and to improve wound healing. Fly sprays are also used to reduce further fly related complications. Adequate wound care management such as daily cleaning with povidone iodine or chlorhexidine scrub, and applying a wound care dressing with fly preventative (Swat) is also useful in the treatment of summer sores.
CLEAN TRAX HORSE HOOF TREATMENT SKIN
Summer sores, also called cutaneous habronemiasis, usually involves a skin wound that gets infected with fly eggs and larvae. It is common in Florida, especially during the summer months. Fly control, in both the environment and on the horse, are essential elements in the prevention of summer sores. Adequate grooming, stable management, routine deworming and parasite control are helpful in the prevention of summers sores in horses.ĭiagnosis of summer sores in the horse involves veterinary consultaion. Your veterinarian may decide to biopsy the granulomatous skin lesion to confirm the diagnosis of habronemiasis. Other similarly appearing, granulomatous skin lesions in Florida horses include exhuberant granulation tissue (proud flesh), sarcoids, phycomycosis (fungal wound infection, also called leeches), and skin cancers such as squamous cell carcinomas, cutaneous lymphoma, etc. These and other skin lesions may appear grossly similar, and a biopsy and histopathology (laboratory, microscope, pathologist) may help to differentiate one lesion from another or confirm the diagnosis. You may want to try this treatment for 2 weeks and see if there is improvement. The scabs should soften and be easily removable with the next scrubbing session. allow scrub solution lather to remain on legs for 10 minutes prior to rinsing with clean water. Dry legs with clean, dry towel.Īfter drying the legs, apply silver sulfadiazine 1% (Silvadene) cream to dorsal cannon lesions, and leave open (do not bandage). I suggest discontinuing the use of nitrofurazone ointment. I would wash the legs twice daily with povidone iodine (Betadyne) or chlorhexidine (Nolvasan) scrub solution and water. Apply to wet cotton and produce thick lather. Lather leg wound lesions and scrub. Topical nitrofurazone application irritated (blistered) the horse chemically, and may have resulted in fungal infection on the dorsal cannon region. (View Answer)īased on what you wrote, your horse is allergic or hypersensitive to nitrofurazone ointment, which was used as a sweat to treat lameness. A little direction would be most appreciated. what mistake did I make that led to this? And the more I learn about laminitis, the more fearful I become. Should I assume the lameness was due to laminitis? Where do I go from here? Is it still very serious despite resolution of the lameness? My mare is only 8 and have raised her from a foal and have done all her training myself. My vet said to treat the white line disease with Clean Trax but said adjusting grazing, feeding, etc. Recently, during a trim (our horses are barefoot,) my farrier noted some widening and damage to the white line in that same left front hoof.
I have been riding my mare since then and she has not exhibited any signs of pain. The lameness resolved after a few days with seemingly no further issue. We always do this gradually and have never had an issue with any of our horses previously. Looking back, it occurred during the time we were beginning to turn our horses out on grass during the summer. I own an 8-year-old Kentucky Mountain Horse mare that exhibited some lameness in her left front leg approximately one month ago. Is this the correct wound care protocol for a case like I have described being that she is feral? (View Answer) She is loose in this large corral with also a stallion, mare and foal. There has been no evidence of cleaning or bandaging the wound. However, no verifications to either of these reports. It has been reported by some that she is not lame, but another report said it looked like her hoof was "flopping" when she walked. Swelling in soft tissue and tendon areas above fetlock are now seen with the mare resting her foot. The pony's long, thick fetlock hair is now filled with sticky serum and blood which has become caked with dirt and evident on day three. The veterinarian was able to examine the wound on day two and decided to leave it alone and administer antibiotic injections for two days. Flies and gnats are in abundance this time of year and landing on the wound. The pony has been brought to a large corral area of grass and dirt/sand. The wound is a line extending around the entire rear of the right pastern between the heel bulb and base of the fetlock and goes around to the inside of the pastern. A feral pony was discovered on a local marsh refuge with a deep laceration and large puncture in the center of the wound.
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