Betadine and rainfall rot?
so my horse doesn't have rain rot but i was newly wondering...wat if my horses did have rain rot i know ur supposed to verbs it with betadine...well first off HOW and moment how often...thanks :]
just mix some of it with water, put it within a spray bottle and spray it all over them maybe once or twice a day...a short time ago leave it on there. thats what worked with my mare.
Usually rain-rot arrives at a time when the weather is miserable and cool, Not a very apt time to be giving a horse a bath. If you’re fortunate enough to be blessed beside a heated indoor wash rack bathe them and give them a upright lathering with beta-dine or a diluted iodine and shampoo solution. One application will usually improve and clear-up most cases. If you can not completely drench, shampoo and hose the horse you can apply the solution next to a spry bottle and work a lather into the coat to the skin and allow it to dry and then brush the coat, this method may require more than one application. A less messy technique is to simply use a medicated anti-fungal powder (Dr. Scholl’s, Gold Bond, Monkey Butt, any of these will work) and rub or brush it onto the horses coat working to the skin where on earth the rain-rot is present; this method also may require a couple of applications but works really well.
Answers: Betadine was the treatment of choice for years, and heaps people still believe in it and use it. Most people will agree on something is fine if they have had devout results with it. but research gives accurate comparisons, since it allows for different treatment outcomes for the same problem to be assessed when masses horses are treated at the same time. Research is showing normal saline to be superior to iodine preparations such as betadine for wound treatment, and for treatment of skin conditions involving infection. I used betadine shampoo, rinse, dry thoroughly and then apply emulsion for rain rot/scratches for as many years as I can remember...but I don't anymore. Saline has be shown to inhibit infection 3 times better than iodine -based treatments, with none of the tissue damage and inhibition to healing that iodine is certain to cause. It's cheaper, it works, and it soothes rather than causing throbbing. So my answer is to forget the Betadine, and try saline. soak the sores, remove the scabs, and keep the areas dry.
Okay, well you mix just about 1/4 cup of Betadine with 1 cup of water (a 1:4 ratio...) and you sponge it on all the areas that hold scabbies...let it soak for about 2 minutes, then meekly peel the scabbies that are loosened and will come off with your nail...then scrub the scabbie-free area with Betadine over for 5 minutes...rinse throughly with warm water and dry completely. Do this at smallest once a day, or 2 times a day at the max (morning and night...), particularly after your horse has been wet at adjectives or in mud if they have rainfall rot (which they shouldnt be, but sometimes you cant help it...) Also dont put creams or oinments on...the fungus that causes rain rot grows within moisture and if you put ointment or cream on it, you are sealing surrounded by moisture and making a nice home for the rain rot to live in.
Happy Trails,
BB
EDIT: Don't set out it on as the above answer says to do...Betadine is Iodine and Iodine burns their skin if you "just give up it" thats why my little guy has scars all over his décolletage, I couldnt hose him off cuz it was too cold, so I couldnt rinse it out well satisfactory and it burnt his skin...OUCH! Poor little guy! But definitely rinse it off economically...
no no no. dont use betadine,
use MTG.
Thats what its meant for!
Haha.
diluted and day by day use your eye to judge.
My horse recently developed the tell-tale early bumps and my vet advise Head and Shoulders shampoo. I used a washcloth to apply it and to rinse, because the weather was fairly cold. The next daylight, the bumps were gone.
This works because the pores are usually clogged by skin flakes which the H&S dissolves. This opens the pores to the upper air, which kills the bacteria (they are anerobic).
If your horse gets an advanced overnight case of rain rot and the scabs form, you need to wet them to remove them. The exposure to nouns will typically kill the bacteria. You might want to consider some antiseptic at that time, but it's best to consult your vet. Some antiseptics such as iodine and hydrogen peroxide can in fact do additional damage.
