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Agro Ecological Zone
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Western plain, kachchh and part of kathiawar peninsula, hot arid eco-region (2.3) ,Coastal Plains and Hills (XIII),Bhal and Coastal area (GJ-8) 14.26% North Gujarat ( GJ-4) 19.87% North west zone (GJ-5) 36.38 North Saurashtra (GJ-6) 29.49
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Practice ID
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DTP0010000006072
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Annotation ID
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GIAN/GAVL/2207
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Reference
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HBN database
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Disease
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Thrush
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Disease Description
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Thrush is an unpleasant infection of the horse's frog that is predisposed by moist, damp, dirty ground or stall conditions. Thrush is an infection of the central and lateral sulcus of the frog of the horse's foot, most often involving bacterial infection, occasionally fungal infection.
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Management Practices
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The horse should be moved to a dry clean environment. The foot should be thoroughly cleaned out, removing necrotic debris from within the affected frog sulcus, and then pared out down to healthy tissue, allowing air to reach any remaining damaged tissues. The frog and its sulcus should be scrubbed daily with dilute iodine solution. Tetanus antitoxin must be given, if the horse is not fully vaccinated up-to-date or if vaccination status cannot be confirmed. Thereafter, the horse should be kept in clean, dry stall conditions and the frog should be cleaned and treated regularly until the infection is controlled and the tissues heel.
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