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Well it is that time of year again that horse owners on the coast dread, the weather warms up and the horse begins to itch! Queensland itch or summer itch is beginning again and it pays to get on top of it early.
The first skin reaction is due to an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity to the bites and insect saliva from small biting Culicoides brevitarsus, a common sand fly or midge, which lives in tropical and subtropical areas. The midges breed in moist, scrubby and bushy localities along the coastal fringe and inland in tropical areas with summer rainfall, or northern areas with monsoonal rains.
Secondary skin problems take place due to the continuous itching that is caused by the allergic part of the condition. This leads to trauma, hair loss, irritation and thickening of the skin particularly over the tail and mane.
One midge could be surprisingly nasty and bite a horse up to one hundred times per hour.
By mixing insecticides and good quality horse rugs, you'll be in a position to achieve the management of Queensland [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] itch. A full body horse rug and neck combination is helpful and in very sensitive, chronically affected horses, a covering over the ears and a fine fly mesh over the forehead is recommended. The Recovery horse rug is a horse rug impregnated with pesticides and has shown to give very good relief. Other full body horse rugs, like the DeMeulenkamp rug is a nice horse product, with a flap to cover the belly it's given wonderful results.
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If a good horse rug and pesticides do not control the itching, as [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] a last resort highly allergic horses could be moved to drier or colder areas where there are not any midges. Your vet can even offer immune suppressing medication, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] such as cortisone to relieve [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] itching. This must be a final resort as using cortisone does have some hazards.
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