Basic Rules

  1. A horse that has even one lesion is by definition genetically liable to the disease and remains so for life and therefore new lesions and recurrences are to be expected.  The only caveat to this rule is the few self-curing cases (see above)
  2. The more sarcoids a horse has the more it will get (and the fewer it has the fewer it will get) i.e. treat them early and treat them properly – DO NOT DABBLE!
  3. Sarcoids multiply over the summer (control the flies) and grow over the winter (examine your horse carefully in the spring time!)
  4. The best possible treatment should be applied at the earliest available opportunity; inappropriate treatment is a potential disaster.
  5. Wounds (no matter how small they may seem to be) on horses with sarcoids at other sites MUST be dealt with promptly using full veterinary support.

 

Rules or no rules…….

 

“The only predictable thing about the equine sarcoid is that it is unpredictable”