worts on nose

[turk]

I was wondering what I should do about worts on my colts nose. The just appeared in a week all over his nose. I am worried if I don’t do something they will go down to his mouth and get sore

[Jean]

Congenital Papillomas – Foals may be born with papillomas (warts) on various sites of the body, most commonly on the head
and legs. The growths are benign and rarely a problem; however, if the growths are traumatized, they will hemorrhage.
Usually, the papillomas are pedunculated and can be easily ligated. If left alone, most will spontaneously regress.

This was found at http://www.ivis.org/proceedings/aaep/2003/pierce/ivis.pdf

Wow, foals can have a lot of problems.

[OldKat]

@turk 3523 wrote:

I was wondering what I should do about worts on my colts nose. The just appeared in a week all over his nose. I am worried if I don’t do something they will go down to his mouth and get sore

Both of my mares got warts on the left side of their muzzle recently, say within the past 6 months. One mare got them about two months before the other. I was sort of worried about them, but remembered that when my cattle had an outbreak of warts the vet said that warts are a virus and when the body recognizes them as a foreign body it will reject them. Sure enough, they fell off my cattle.

Just about the time that I couldn’t stand looking at the warts on the first mare (elpased time = 1 month +/-) & I was going to take her to the vet for an evaluation I noticed some of the warts were falling off. In a matter of about a ten day period they were all gone. These were small, gray warts that looked to be about the size of a tick, before it is engorged with blood. They left no trace of having been there when they fell off.

However, when I was a kid a friend had a mare that had great big, crusty looking warts (round looking things the size of a childs finger tip) on her entire muzzle & they stayed there for about 2 years or more before they started to fall off.

Hope your colt has the first type and not the second, because those on my friends mare were really hard to look at all the time. They also left small scars when they fell off. Good luck.

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