Testimonials - Horses

We are proud of our skin and wound care products and have a lot to say about them. But, don’t take our word for it! Read what some of our customers had to say about NuTopicals skin and wound care products on horses.

Veterinary Testimonials

We are using the Banana Peel Extract (Heal-A-Horse Wound Cream) on a horse with Hyperkeratosis and it is making an amazing difference.

Dean A. Hendrickson, DVM, MS
Diplomate American College of Veterinary Surgeons
Associate Professor of Surgery
Colorado State University

I have been amazed with the healing effects of the Heal-A-Horse line. Having used the products on many patients, I can attest to its abilities to decrease inflammation and reduce healing times by as much as 50%. The Heal-A-Horse line is an outstanding line of wound care products.

J.T. Walker, DVM

Consumer Testimonials - Heal-A-Horse®

I was devastated when I saw my 4-year old mare one morning. She had laid down during the night and had gotten trapped. While trying to get upright she managed to gouge several holes in her back legs. My veterinarian treated her with traditional methods, but some wounds were so deep they just wouldn’t heal properly. That’s when a friend told me about Heal-A-Horse. I was skeptical, but figured I had nothing to lose. After just a couple weeks I could see a marked difference. I’m still amazed by the final results. Now, my mare is 100% sound and performing again! Heal-A-Horse has taken equine medicine to a new level. This is definitely the product for me in the future!

Jim Martin
PM Cutting Horses

"I have recently tried “Heal-A-Horse” (Banana Cream) on a young filly that had a very deep cut in her chest. The accident happened in mid-summer which usually causes more complications. After I began using this product, it started to close up the wound almost immediately. The filly was not bothered with the medicine and didn’t try to resist the application which made treating the wound much easier for her as well as for myself.

I was astounded at the rate in which the wound was healing and it did not leave a scar which was even more surprising. I have never found another product that heals as quickly as Heal-A-Horse and I would highly recommend it to anyone. I have been a faithful user of another horse medication, but after using Heal-A-Horse, I will never be without this product. Thanks to the makers of Heal-A-Horse."

Jim Beasley
J Ranch

"I have a horse rescue and rehab and 3 weeks ago took in a severely injured horse that had tangled with barbed wire. I had bought 1 bottle of each of the 3-step regime to try. At 3 weeks this mare is almost ½ way healed. Her wound was so severe and deep at the joint of her foreleg and chest that I could put my entire fist in there. Bone was showing at that time. Her prognosis is that she will be fully healed by February (letter dated December 7, 2006). Kudos to your product."

Sherri McDaniel
Creature Features Rescue/Rehab

"I purchased a tube of Heal-A-Horse Banana Cream at the North American Veterinary Conference in Florida. I chose it because it contained ingredients I knew were safe and healing. Both my horses get scrapes and bruises and I wanted something gentle and soothing to keep in my tack box. But I especially chose this for my mare "Radio Flyer" who has a dry flakey dermatitis caused by blanket rub and it is responding nicely. And I like the way it feels on my own skin as well. Thanks for a great product!

M.Taylor

Consumer Testimonials - Equi-Salve™

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your amazing Sarcrid Salve. I have a horse that had a sarcoid tumor in his ear and below his eye and after many painful chemical products and a bloody surgery they still came back. After we found out about the salve and started the treatment we saw a difference immediately. After a few months treatment and one and a half tubes of salve they were gone without a trace. Not one scar. Thank you.

Aurora Callahan, France

The horse I have is a BLM Mustang, who has had sarcoids pretty much his whole life. I adopted him when he was about five months old, and he is six years old now. One of sarcoids is up on his left hip area, and started out as a tiny bump. I had no idea what it was, so didn't treat it. Big mistake! This sarcoid is now the size of half a tennis ball up on that hip, and he also has others of different shapes on him also. I had a Vet out to look at it. This Vet, where I now live, said that he had never seen a sarcoid the size of my horse's, and that it must be a melanoma. I am in the process of finding a Vet to do a biopsy on it, but there are NO Vets who come to your property up here in Apple Valley. Well, maybe one, but if he's out of town, you have to bring your horse in to where the other Vet is.

Chotchke, my Mustang, has about 15 sarcoids of varying sizes all over him. I have used the Xxterra Cream, but it is really expensive, and when he saw me coming with that stuff in my hand, he'd get as far away from me as he could. Xxterra Cream really hurts, because it is very caustic, and eats away at the flesh. I really can't afford to get the Xxterra Cream right now, so looked into different ways of treating the sarcoids.

My Vet in Norco, CA. told me that you have to be careful with removing them because they can come back double the size and number. Some Vets freeze the small ones off. This sometimes works, but still, they can come back tenfold. They are also spread by flies, so keep your horse sprayed every day with fly spray.

There is a gal named Nancy. I think her 'screen name' is Blindkestrel. She has developed a sarcoid cream that is organic, and does not hurt when used on the horse. I tried the product and it really works. My horse doesn't run when he sees me coming with it in my hand, and he will stand so I can apply it. Oh, her salve doesn't hurt your fingers either. The Xxterra Cream hurts when you put it on, and you should use gloves. Let me know if you get hold of that salve of Nancy's. It does work, and is a good product.

Beth

Hello, I just wanted to share my great results with the product. I am in day thirteen of treatment and have been documenting with pictures along the way. The sarcoids are completely flat with no bulging area and hair is starting to return to the affected area. If you would like me to send pictures of the progress, I would be happy to.

Patty

I'm writing with good news. I have been applying the salve once a day since I received it on 7/19. To tell you the truth, nothing was really happening. I didn't see it shrinking at all. It was not angry. Just looked the same. All of a sudden, last week I noticed that it looked very dry and by the weekend it had begun to disconnect off of Harley's nose. There was a nasty smell and I was beginning to get concerned that it was infected. I took him to a show on Sunday and as we were schooling the course the sarcoid was actually lifting up and down on his nose as he cantered and jumped. As I had explained in the past, it's about the size of a golf ball and very noticeable. So needless to say, my horse was the talk of the show. People can be so ignorant sometimes. Well, them and their ignorance had to walk away knowing that sarcoid and all, he took GRAND CHAMPION. Pretty is as pretty does! The day after the show I received a call from my trainer saying that she went out to the paddock to get him and it had fallen off!!!!!! HOORAY!!!!!! She said that there was only about 1/5 of it attached still. I can not tell you how grateful I am that I decided to go ahead and try it. I am going to the barn for the first time tonight to see Harley. I'll keep you posted. Thanks again for all of your help and most of all for creating the salve.

My mare, Marie, is doing wonderfully. After the Vet tried to band the sarcoid and remove it without success, I did use the dental floss and tied it around the root. It came off looking like a huge mushroom. I began applying the Sarcrid salve for five days, then off five days. The area is pink and hair is starting to grow around it. She has a small elongated spot that I am still working on. But we are down to the skin and she is not fighting me. She also has a small sarcoid on her chest that I have been treating. I just go out every evening when I feed her and wash them off and reapply the salve. I am ecstatic with the results. It was sure cheaper than a trip to the veterinary school in Oklahoma for treatment. Thanks for all the advice. My neighbors, who saw the mare originally, can't believe the difference.

I got your sarcoid salve in March for my nine year old Arabian. The changes in his sarcoid lesions have been remarkable. Ninety percent of the lesions are gone but I will continue with the treatment until the underlying tissue is as soft as the rest of his skin.

I was given a mare with a huge sarcoid on the inside top portion of her right leg. It was the size of half a tennis ball. I was given the mare because the people who owned her thought she had cancer. Anyway, I took her to the vet and he said it was a sarcoid. So I called one of the previous owners, and he said in the past it had been taken off with "Indian Mudd" and he didn't know what it was. I started looking for info and so here I am. Kind of a long intro, My name is Jane and I am from a little town called Caulksville Arkansas. I removed most of the outside mass with a piece of dental floss. I sort of shaved it off. Then I used some ointment called Sarcrid. It has taken it down to the skin and now I can see what appears to be the root or starting point. I received quite an education looking up Indian Mudd and blood root salve. I am so glad I stumbled on this site, it has been a Godsend. I had no clue what to try on this thing. The vet tried to freeze it off and was not successful. Now, it appears that I have a rather nice Thoroughbred mare and colt (yep she was preggers) out of the deal.

Hi, I would just like to say how much your Sarcrid salve has improved my horse's sarcoid. I did take a picture before I started using it and will take one of how its looking so far and forward them on to you.

Thanks again, Gill and Oscar(the horse)
United Kingdom

My two year old Percheron had what we first thought to be a wart on his cheek, but fast became apparent it was a sarcoid on the corner of his mouth. We'd tried Xxterra, but while it reduced the size of the tumor, it was terribly painful for him and made him very head shy. We could NOT get it on his face after a week of treatment - it was just awful...then we tried anti-growth injections that only angered it and caused it to grow to four times the size in just two weeks...finally we resorted to surgery which left a huge hole in his face.... the size of a tennis ball! After struggling with the healing for months, it finally closed. Then the incision started to get a bumpy texture to it and it was looking like it was coming back after all that mess. I started to apply Sarcrid salve to the area, morning and night. Immediately, I noticed that he'd stopped scratching the area and so I kept applying it. The texture of his scar became much smoother over the course of the next two weeks and I decided to try it on my TB's ears. He'd had tiny tumors for years in his ears. At first it was very difficult to even handle the ears, but again, within two weeks time he made no fuss and I noticed the feel of the inner ear became much smoother to the touch. I've been using the salve on Bolhtor's face for about a month and a half and all signs of abnormal tissue have disappeared. I've been using it on my TB's ears for about four weeks and have noticed a decrease in both size and amount of nodules present in his ears! I'd highly recommend Sarcrid salve for anyone battling sarcoid tumors in their horses . It's worked wonders for my two horses and with absolutely none of the pain some of the other topical treatments. I will be forever grateful.

THANK YOU!!! Mary Leone Heller

Thank you. This cream is truly amazing.

E.M. - PA

I just wanted to follow up with you about Grand's progress. I think that the salve has really helped. His vet had continued with bi-weekly drug injections to the site. We kept that up even as I started with the salve. To me, it seemed that things really started to turn around at that point. The area had gotten as big as approximately four inches in diameter and is now about the size of a nickel! The hair is growing back as well. I will be able to saddle him soon! I will pass the word around about your salve. Have a lovely day.

Sincerely, Rosemary Warmenhoven

Last fall, I had my Vet remove, through "freezing" and some minor surgery, a sarcoid the size of a golf ball on my little Mustangs' cheek.. (Right where the neck meets the cheek curve.) Even though he got a lot of it and the "freezing" eradicated a lot of it, he was not very optimistic that it would solve the problem or stop it from growing back. I had researched equine sarcoids and came across your cream, the only thing out there even suggesting success. I started to apply it to the crusted-over skin, and within a week or so, it started to smooth out. I continued to use the entire tube and now there is a small patch about the size of my thumb with a slightly raised area. I think a few more treatments will probably get rid of it completely. The Vet has seen it and is very impressed!!

The salve worked wonderfully on my sixteen year old Arabian gelding who had an occult sarcoid on the inside of his upper thigh. All gone! I think it took about three months and the sarcoid was about three inches in diameter. It only took one container of Sarcrid Salve to do it. I tried to apply a small amount everyday (some days I would forget). I am excited because my Vet had said that the only way to treat this sarcoid was laser, surgery or burning it off and she hated all three options. She said, in her experience, these options just didn't work well and were a waste of money. She wanted to know if the salve worked, but I haven't seen her for six months (that's a good thing LOL). I have a call into her and can hardly wait to tell her.

Thank You! Linda Wilson

When I purchased my Quarter Horse Gelding, Clue, two years ago, he had sarcoids. At the time, I did not realize what they were. In his leg-pit, he had what I thought was a wound that just needed some treatment and healing time. I also noticed a dime size hairless spot on his shoulder and a dime size warty dry spot on his opposite upper leg. No Big Deal I thought. (WRONG) I purchased him because he was a wonderful tempered well-broke horse. I took him home and began to treat the leg-pit as I would any wound, with antibacterial wash.

Well, the wound began getting worse and worse, larger in size and very open and meaty looking. The only way I can describe it is that it was about the size of a baseball, open, oozing and meaty with some (now I know them to be Nodules) all around the area. Just gross and very painful looking, although he showed no signs of pain and continued to play, run, buck and kick while in the paddock. Needless to say, I had the Vet come out and he informed me my horse had sarcoids. My Vet had never seen one quite that bad. I then went on-line to do some research on Equine Sarcoids. I was then able to identify the type of sarcoids he had. On his shoulder, he has an Occult (which also was increasing in size) on his opposite upper leg, it was a verrucose, and in the leg-pit it was definitely a Fibroblastic sarcoid with nodules. The leg-pit was the one I was most concerned with. I was very distressed to see that there is really no sure cure for Equine Sarcoids and was reading everything from Radiation and Home Remedies. In the meantime, my Vet came out to do an injection on the occult sarcoid ( I honestly can not remember what he called it). I remembered it cost about $100 and there was absolutely no results. The sarcoid did not change in color, size, texture or anything. It did cause him alot of pain during the injection. I vowed not to try anything like that again. Shortly after, I receive an email from "Blindkestrel" saying that said she might have something that could help my horse, and if I was interested to email her. I did email her back. She explained to me that her horse had sarcoids that were pretty large in size. She had made up a salve and began applying it to her horse and over time the sarcoids literally were healed. She was upset with herself because she hadn't taken pictures of her horse. She assured me it was an all natural salve and caused her horse no pain. I had absolutely nothing to lose and said I would be willing to try the salve and take a series of pictures as well and keep a log. Shortly afterwards, I received the salve. I began applying it to all three sarcoids. It was very easy to apply and caused Clue no pain at all. I noticed almost immediately the healing process begin on his fibroblastic sarcoid in the leg-pit. I was very relieved, for over a period of time the oozing stopped, the swelling went down, it appeared cleaner and healthier and not so angry and raw. It was definitely healing. It has been a year into the treatment and the sarcoid is all closed up, and continues to heal, there is even hair growth starting. The salve did not work as aggressively on the occult and verrucose, but there is a definite positive change in them. The occult is drying up and even appears to be shriveling so to speak. The verrucose (warty) is alot better as well. I am very grateful that I tried the salve. Nancy was a complete stranger, but we had one thing in common, We both love our horses. I felt safe putting the salve on Clue. Although, I honestly was not prepared the excellent results on Clue's fibroblastic sarcoid. That was the one that could have caused the most damage and been the most debilitating and now it is virtually gone.

From a Very Grateful Horse Owner in Massachusetts
Rhonda