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Libby Frost
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 Posted - 24 Oct 2007 : 6:16:48 PM
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Poor ole herbs lost the pigment round his eyes which after a worming and vitamin and selinum and vitamin E supplement is coming back,now hes got that damn photosensation scabs from hell on his back heels which is really sore,tried washing off evenings, creaming with zinc and castor oil mornings, then udder cream, now just washing with hibiscrub to see if that helps HELP!!!!! someone must know how to stop this before hes turned out 24/7
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Edited by - Libby Frost on 24 Oct 2007 6:17:25 PM
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arabic
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Posted - 24 Oct 2007 : 6:59:44 PM
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| My friend uses aromaheel and swears by it! Hope you soon get Herb sorted x |
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sapphire blue
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Posted - 24 Oct 2007 : 8:54:05 PM
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| Aroma heel is fantastic stuff, I've tried all sorts and I now have 2 that suffer but with this product it is easy to deal with and they can still go out and it clears it up well. As for prevention moisturise whenever possible and use keratex powder in the wet if the barrier creams don't work, I found on my lad they made it worse but this powder is good for him, and keep an eye out of cuts etc. Hope this helps |
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arabic
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Posted - 24 Oct 2007 : 9:29:49 PM
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Ditto the keratex for prevention!! I found the drier I kept Freddies legs, the better and just rubbed the powder into his dry legs. Whilst I was using it he never got any scabs at all. I havent used it for a couple of years now. Whether it hardens up the skin and wards off a reaction or if they grow out of it, I dont know but hope Herbs is right as rain soon.
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Pixie
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Posted - 24 Oct 2007 : 9:51:20 PM
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| Sapphire Blue - what is the texture of Aroma Heel. A know a bit of a funny question - I use Sudocream which stops the dreaded mud fever on my boy but its a nuisance as its gunky. Is Aroma Heel - vaseline like or baby oil like or watery. Any description you can come up with might be useful to know for me. Thanks |
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shah
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Posted - 25 Oct 2007 : 09:10:49 AM
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I use aromaheel too, it's great. The consistency is like a very thick cream, not gunky like sudocream, not vaseline or watery, much thicker. Goes on very well and gets the scabs off without having to scrub, you can just pick them off gently.
If it's photosensitivity scabs then a high factor suncream is the best prevention. Needs to be factor 40 or above as I learned this year, anything less and the scabs are back!! Factor 50 baby sun block is best. Slap on and rub in. Anything that's water resistant and preferably for sensitive skin works well. I know, it sounds odd to be rubbing in suncream at this time of the year but it does work...for us just one sunny day brings it all back again. One reason for us to wish winter comes quickly... |
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gcarrie9
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Posted - 25 Oct 2007 : 09:53:25 AM
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My horse has very very sensitive skin, even Hibiscrub is a problem if I don't rinse it off until his skin squeaks! I use the Aloe Vera 99% pure stuff from the Health Shop, which moisturises, soothes, heals and creates a barrier against further infection.
Incidentally, for horses that have sensitive skin and suffer from midgies and flies, using Aloe Vera around the sheath and other areas where the skin is thin and prone to bites provides excellent results through the summer. |
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arabic
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Posted - 25 Oct 2007 : 11:24:25 AM
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Carrie, thanks for the aloe vera tip!! Freddie gets plagued by them (always this time of year). I have tried lots of different things, including neem oil but nothing seems to stop them biting!
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Libby Frost
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Posted - 25 Oct 2007 : 4:07:55 PM
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| i believe in sun cream too.Kevin, herbs brother had it bad , i slapped it all over his heels and that went really quickly.i dunno might go back to that then...... |
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sapphire blue
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Posted - 25 Oct 2007 : 4:18:19 PM
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| Hi Libby like Shah said it is a thick cream which is based on natural ingredients it has a website if you google it. I also use suncream in summer but have found inautum winter I can get away with just moisutrising and last year had no problems only got them this year as one was bought with the dreaded stuff and the other and the other got it while I was ill. Good luck |
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Libby Frost
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Judith S
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Posted - 25 Oct 2007 : 8:33:13 PM
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Try gooling Aromesse!!! We've used their products for years & they are BRILL |
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purdeysue
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Posted - 25 Oct 2007 : 9:37:05 PM
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| I'd never heard of 'aromaheal' and have been fighting summer 'mud fever' now for about 8 weeks to absolutely no avail whatsoever, I have been on the Aromesse website & ordered some. Hopefully we'll be able to get the scabs off once and for all. We've used Hibiscrub, sudocreme, zinc & castor oil, liquid parrafin you name it ! The scabs will not budge... Watch this space... |
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Baikala
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Posted - 26 Oct 2007 : 06:20:15 AM
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| Originally posted by purdeysue
I'd never heard of 'aromaheal' and have been fighting summer 'mud fever' now for about 8 weeks to absolutely no avail whatsoever, I have been on the Aromesse website & ordered some. Hopefully we'll be able to get the scabs off once and for all. We've used Hibiscrub, sudocreme, zinc & castor oil, liquid parrafin you name it ! The scabs will not budge... Watch this space...
Hi,
Sorry, butting in, and slightly off topic. I used to find that plastering the scabby legs really thickly with sudocrem, or whatever, wrapping with clingfilm, stable bandages on top and left for 24 hours used to help a lot. Mostly the scabs would come off when I wiped the cream off, it was the only thing that helped my white legged arabs who only had to look at the slightest bit of mud to get raging MF on all legs.
Aromaheal worked well but I found it very gunky. |
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shah
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Posted - 26 Oct 2007 : 08:20:39 AM
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Which treatment will work depend on what it is. Summer mud fever is not necessarily mud fever but could be either photosensitivity or leukocytoclastic vasculitis. If you put sudocream and cling film on LV it makes it worse, likewise putting sun cream on ordinary mud fever won't work.
purdeysue - what you have sounds more like LV, we battle that every year! it comes in Jul/Aug and stays until about now - BUT this year I prevented most of it with sun cream and shah's legs have been so much better than any year before. Unfortunately I put some lower factor cream on (factor 35) for a week or two when the shop had run out of the factor 50 stuff and the scabs came right back which is why I've had to use aromaheel again to get rid of them. It's also crept up further on the leg this year while in the past it's only been on the pink skin.
I found that if you have LV you need to look after the legs properly every day, if you leave it for a few days it will run wild. |
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purdeysue
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Posted - 28 Oct 2007 : 12:41:02 PM
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Thanks Shah.
I had the vet out ,she didn't think it was LV as it didn't affect all the white bits on her legs. The trouble is She's 16 months old and I can't keep her in, (I've tried it, it was like a worling dervish ! and that was with company) I've even tried poulticing but she manages to pull the dressing out from beneath the bandage ! I'm sure once the scabs can be got rid of it'll go. It's just finding somethying that actually works. |
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