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Sweet-Itch Management Sweet-
Itch is a severe autoimmune over reaction. It is caused by Midges biting the
horse and the horse having an excessive allergic reaction to the saliva. This
causes intolerable itching. The poor horse or pony is driven demented as their skin must feel as if it’s on fire!
Symptoms The
skin will get very dry, scurfy and crusty, often the horse will have oozing
sores, or will scratch it’s self until it bleeds, trying to get some relief
from the dreadful itching. The
places most often attacked by the midge are;
The neck along the mane
The top of the tail
Along the spine
Under the belly
Under the chest
Around the pasterns & fetlocks
Round the eyes on some unfortunate ones, as
well as The muzzle and in some very severe cases the whole body.
Management Management
consists mostly of providing a physical barrier to stop the midge being able to
bite the horse; with some cases this can be done by the use of specific products
containing D.E.E.T. which will repel midges, and they need to be long lasting
for maximum protection, for instance “Itch
Stop Salve Complete” made by Nettex and supplied & used by myself. “Itch
Stop Salve Complete” is formulated to be used once a week, unless it rains
heavily or the horse sweats excessively, then you need to re-apply it. To
start with, a weekly bath is essential, before the cream is applied, preferably
with a surgical shampoo to sterilise the skin. The skin must be kept clean. For
severe cases, a specialist blanket that is midge proof may be necessary.
Ordinary For
others, like my pony, I need to use a combination of “Itch Stop Salve
Complete” and a Boett Blanket as the blanket covers most of her, but she also
gets very sore round the top of her coronets, fetlocks, nose, and eyes, just about
everywhere! so I use the cream on the exposed bits. It took a very long time, about a year in fact, to get her comfortable, but now she is, she’s a lot easier to manage and she is now a very happy pony!
Please be very patient with them, believe me, they will love you for your care and reward you ten times over!
I
hope this has been helpful to you; for more advice visit the sweet itch help
line at back to “Itch Stop Salve Complete”
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