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Location: Ohio | I am at my wits end. I battled it all spring on one of my horses and now that we have been getting hit with a lot of rain its come back with a vengeance. This spring I tried Sore No More The Sauce, medicated shampoos and topical's for rain rot and fungus, surgical scrubs, and vetericyn but it took dry weather for anything to finally work. Any ideas on what to use now? Poor horse, I know it hurts. I have some MTG but I have never had luck with the stuff and am weary to try it. Opinions? Home remedy's? |
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| I had used everything under the sun I could buy over the counter. I finally got a concotion from the vet that got rid of it right away. I know it had DMSO and Dex in it.
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Location: Ohio | Thank you! This is the first time I have had to deal with it so I am at a loss... never dreamed it could be such a pain to treat. |
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Location: Oregon | I finally got Uniprim from the Vet and put it in his grain for maybe 10 days. I had been dealing with it for 3 months. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | I think some mentioned using sauerkraut to get rid of scratches. |
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| I battled scratches on my mare's white leg for a really long time. It seemed every home remedy and/or store bought concoction only made it more inflamed and infected. The thing that finally worked for me (and still works) are the little tubes of triple antibiotic cream (not ointment) you can get at Walmart or Kroger (for people). The tubes are really small and probably $3 each, so it seems expensive, but they worked! Just keep applying and rubbing in the infected area daily and it will get smaller and smaller. Now I just keep and eye out and if she gets one little spot somewhere I apply. Good luck! |
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Location: Where I am happiest | Put Desitin on every day when turned out in the grass. The zinc oxide treats the scratches and creates a barrier from the moisture. The vet gave me a small bottle of stuff that really works and it's called Scratches rx. Although none of us can find it anywhere including him anymore. I looked at the ingredients and it is made mostly of oils. You need to keep them covered and iodine shampoo's only keep the cycle going. You have to keep them soft because they crack and bleed and ooz keeping the scabs growing and the cycle going. Keep it soft.
The recipe most vets use is 1/2 jar furacine,1 large tube neosporin,1 large tube tripe antibiotic cream, 10cc's Dex and 2 tubes desitin.
I tried the old sourkrout wrap. What a pain in the a$$ and it came right back. So no, it didnt work. You will get just as far doing a furicine sweat. What either one does is gets the scabs off which you have to do in order to get the lesions treated and start the healing.
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| I used triple antibiotic cream or oitment covered with baby bum cream. I use just the bum cream when it starts getting wet to prevent it. I got stuck with some once and prevention really goes a long way. |
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Location: Ohio | Thank you everyone! I will definitely be trying some of these. I know a lot of pink skinned horses battle it but this is on a buckskin with no white and none of my other horses have it so who knows... fingers crossed some of these things will work for us.
Edited by GrittyCowgirl 2014-06-17 8:23 AM
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Location: rabbit run | I mix the desitin and triple antibiotic together in the palm of my hand smear it all over it. I had it so bad several years ago I almost lost my horse. Now I keep his pasterns and lower legs completely shaved all the time so it can't creep in all that hair and get started before you know it's there. He got a few spots this spring and I picked them off and kept after them with the cream stuff and he is good. Good luck, I feel your pain.
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| 4 oz extra stength Desitin
2 oz Cortizone
2 oz Neosporin
Mix together, spread on the scratches. Next day wipe off the scabs with a dry towel and slather more mix on. Works great!!!
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| Vetericyn worked for me on a horse we had with scratches. |
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Location: Ohio | MrsHound - 2014-06-16 9:55 AM
4 oz extra stength Desitin
2 oz Cortizone
2 oz Neosporin
Mix together, spread on the scratches. Next day wipe off the scabs with a dry towel and slather more mix on. Works great!!!
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Location: California | I have used the sauerkraut method. I have also used SynbioNT Ag Wash. Mix 50-50. Spray on. It works really well |
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| GrittyCowgirl - 2014-06-20 10:06 PM MrsHound - 2014-06-16 9:55 AM 4 oz extra stength Desitin
2 oz Cortizone
2 oz Neosporin
Mix together, spread on the scratches. Next day wipe off the scabs with a dry towel and slather more mix on. Works great!!!
Its working!!!!!
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Location: East of the Pecos | I sell Synbiont, and scratches is the number one use for it. |
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Location: Texas | I use a 50/50 concoction of (generic brands from Walmart) triple Antibiotic ointment and anti-fungal cream (similar to lotrimen); it was the only thing that works on my horse. |
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Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma | GrittyCowgirl - 2014-06-20 11:06 PM
MrsHound - 2014-06-16 9:55 AM
4 oz extra stength Desitin
2 oz Cortizone
2 oz Neosporin
Mix together, spread on the scratches. Next day wipe off the scabs with a dry towel and slather more mix on. Works great!!!
Its working!!!!!
I used this!!! I had two horses with white socks and no matter how I kept them in the spring, they got scratches BAD every spring.
One thing I did different is I also used a spray on antifungal/athletes foot product. Which ever was cheaper.
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| For rainrot I use clorox water. Just enough clorox to smell it. Always clears it up in one treatment. |
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Location: Texas | Once you have it gone, look into getting some Keratex Mud Shield Powder. It works great to keep it away! |
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Location: Where I am happiest | TBone - 2015-01-03 3:09 PM Once you have it gone, look into getting some Keratex Mud Shield Powder. It works great to keep it away!
Thats good to know. Thats been my problem with this mare. We get it gone, and it comes right back over and over again. We have done everything, tried everything, and used different concoctions as they seem to work for a while and then it's like she builds a resistance and it flares back up. We have been dealing with it ever since we rescued her. It was allowed to go to far for too long and is now chronic. We have no mud, as our pens off the stalls are a foot thick pad of lime finds ( small gravel) and I dont let her in the pasture when it's wet. I will look into the mud shield. Thank's. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Nu-stock has worked on scratches and rain rot better than anything I've ever tried. Dries it up and it has sulfur in it. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | tracies - 2015-01-03 8:10 AM I use a 50/50 concoction of (generic brands from Walmart) triple Antibiotic ointment and anti-fungal cream (similar to lotrimen); it was the only thing that works on my horse.
THIS is working!!!!! I'm using the Lotrimine and triple antibiotic ointment and she is responding like a rock star!! Finally!! Thankyou so much!! |
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| Calm coat once you get it healed up. Calm coat has tea tree oil and anytime I see skin irrational or gunk on one I slather it on them. It smells good and is antimicrobial so need worries if it gets on blankets. |
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| I have had excellent results with Muck Itch that's the name. It's a gel you spray |
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