My horse has a skin condition. How can a skin scraping help?

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I have an 8 year old clyde. He has a bad skin condition that is undentified and i was wondering how skin scraping would help and what they do. Pet's info: Farm Animal | Horse | Male | neutered | 1800 lbs

Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS · Accepted Answer

A skin scraping may help identify Jaxson's skin condition. Skin scrapings are used to screen for infectious organisms, and are a quick test that can accurate diagnose the cause of a lesion and guide treatment. To do a skin scraping, the vet uses a scalpel blade to scrape a sample of the skin cells (just hard enough to make the skin turn red but not to make it bleed), and transfers the skin cells on a slide to look under a microscope. I would recommend having this test done by your vet on Jaxson to try to diagnose his skin condition.

My horse has a skin condition. How can a skin scraping help?

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