{"id":1138,"date":"2016-08-03T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:37:51","slug":"sweet-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/sweet-itch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Itch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet itch (pruritis) is a skin condition that occurs in horses, ponies and other equines. An allergic reaction to bites from Culicoides midges, sweet itch will make the affected animal\u2019s skin inflamed and itchy, and can cause horses to bite, scratch or rub at their skin. Some helpful info&#8230;.<!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SWEET-ITCH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SWEET-ITCH-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet itch\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SWEET-ITCH-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SWEET-ITCH-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SWEET-ITCH-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>If left untreated, sweet itch can cause secondary infection. It can also result in horses causing severe damage to themselves. In acute cases horses can\u2019t bear contact with tack or rider. While most prevalent in warmer countries, sweet itch is quite common in Ireland and the UK during the warmer months, with the onset typically around springtime. It is also prevalent in some of our native breeds.<\/p>\n<h6>Some symptoms of sweet itch:<\/h6>\n<p>\u2022 Skin lesions &#8211; especially along the mane, tail and dorsal midline. Lesions near the ears and head are also common<br \/>\n\u2022 Hair loss &#8211; tail and mane<br \/>\n\u2022 Bald patches &#8211; the result of permanent hair loss and skin damage<br \/>\n\u2022 Broken skin &#8211; sore, open skin with occasional bleeding<br \/>\nPrevention of sweet itch is widely regarded as the best strategy for managing the problem.<\/p>\n<h6>Prevention techniques include:<\/h6>\n<p>\u2022 Treating the horse (and\/or it\u2019s environment) with insecticides and repellents<br \/>\n\u2022 Draining any nearby stagnant water sources where midges breed. Where this is not possible, keep the horse away from these water sources.<br \/>\n\u2022 Create barriers &#8211; ear-to-tail rugs, fly masks and screens fitted to stable doors and windows can protect your horse from biting insects<br \/>\n\u2022 Stable the horse when insect activity is at its highest \u2013 usually between 4 pm and 8am<br \/>\n\u2022 Fitting ceiling fans in stables can be worth the effort &#8211; midges can\u2019t fly against a strong breeze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet itch (pruritis) is a skin condition that occurs in horses, ponies and other equines. An allergic reaction to bites from Culicoides midges, sweet itch will make the affected animal\u2019s skin inflamed and itchy, and can cause horses to bite, scratch or rub at their skin. Some helpful info&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nachrichten"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}