Itching skin lesions, fungal infections and edema over the shoulders that makes the skin looked rippled. Mane itching and tail itching can be symptoms. Lesions erupt where the filariads congregate in sub-dermal locations during the migration. Common sitess are the withers, flank, shoulders, sternum, belly, sheath and chest.
Many are also allergic to the bite of the Culucoides midge that spreads the neck thread worm. This allergy is called Sweet Itch or Queensland Itch by some. Garnet On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:19, Sally Khanna wrote: > What type of symptoms would a horse with neck threadworm exhibit? > > Sally > > Garnet <[email protected]> wrote: > Mine are > allergic to the migrating filariads of Onchocerca (Neck > Threadworm) so I > watch for symptoms of sensitivity -- these guys have a ten day > life > cycle so can build in numbers between regular wormings, more > so in the > summer than the winter, as the midge that spreds them dies in > cold > weather. > Garnet > > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal > Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: > http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: > http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: > [email protected] > OT Archive: > http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
