Here is his story told by Marilyn Cottar

I first saw Lumpy in the fall of 2004.
He was in a pasture with some other colts the same age.
I was horrified at what looked like insect bite marks all over his legs and neck.
I told the owner and manager of the faciality, I could take him with me and try to get his skin cleared up, but they were taken aback that I thought they were not taking care of the animals and did not allow me to take him at that time.

This seemed to all start after a severe bout of strangles right after he was weaned.

Well, within a few months he had gotten much worse and they had about given up on him and agreeded to let me take him to my ranch and see what I could do.

The vets in Oklahoma could figure him out.
They treated him topically for ringworm!
Had him on oral antibiotics and nothing touched his lumps.

The lumps didnt seem to itch him, but his skin was really sore and he didnt like to be touched.
If you ran your hand over his body he would tighten up as if it hurt.

Naturally the first thing we did was take him to our vet.
They ran blood tests and took a biopsy of several of the lumps.
It came back with the diagnosis: Chronic suppurative deep dermatitus.
The lumps were the size of the tip of your little finger to the size of a half dollar and all of them had something in the center that you could pick up with your fingers that was about the size of buckshot.

The larger bumps would have multiple little buckshot lumps in them. They never errupted. And mysteriously enough, the lesions they biopsied disappeared.

We put him on Transfer Factor as soon as we got him here and it seemed to help a little. The we we switched to the TF Stress Packets and saw another little jump in healing.

We noticed that if he got chilled he would break out even worse with new lesions, so we kept a blanket on him nearly all the time. Where ever the blanket touched his body, the lesions seemed to disappear. We even had an allergy panel ran to see if he was allergic to anything he might be eating or even the stall bedding we were using.

We had several vets, including Dr. Mac Barksdale, that pegged him with the condition called pemphigus, but the bumps he had never festered or oozed, so we had to look somewhere else for another answer.

What was bothering him was just not in the books and not one vet I talked to had ever seen this. One vet even equated it to be something similar to Lupus in humans. Some of the lesions would cause a scalloped like scar on his face and his buttocks.

One vet said to put him down, that we were just throwing good money after bad and he would never get better. We didnt call him back again.

Lumpy had a beautiful coat of hair and looked like a big healthy kid with a very bad case of acne!!!

As spring progressed we talked to Dr. Mac about using steroids on him and he finally okayed a very small dose of Deximethizone(5ml) given one day and skip a day and administer again and wait and see what happened.
Some how the Dex was just the little boost he needed, to calm down his immune system and let the Transfer Factor work.

He would get the Dex and about 10 days later you could see the lesions try to return and we would repeat the Dex dose again and then two weeks would pass before we needed it again and gradually by summer we had him to three weeks and nearly all the lesions had healed and disappeared except for a couple on his neck and on his hind quarters!

We called the owner and said that he was ready to go home and just watch him closely and administer the dex if the lesions tried to return.
He is in training and doing really well.
She did comment that they have to keep him covered during colder weather as he seems to get more bumps when it is cold and also the wierd thing is that during the summer he couldnt sweat and would over heat.
They found that giving him a beer once a day helped that.

NOTE: We had an animal dermatologist tell us to take him off Transfer Factor and give him nothing but SMZ tablets for two weeks. His condition became really bad during the time we had him off the Transfer Factor. This was about the 4th month of treating him with the Transfer Factor. We had a lot of cooks in this pot of soup that took an interest and pulled out when their ideas wouldnt work.

He definitely is a success story. Just the best little guy too. Thank you so much Kris for all your help and concern while we were trying to figure out just what was going on with him.

One other thing that was strange and might not be connected, but when his condition finally improved, his testicles finally dropped. He actually looked gelded before hand.

WHY DID TRANSFER FACTOR WORK WHEN MEDICINE WOULDN'T?

Some times for unknown reasons the immune system goes haywire. In this case the skin was the foreign invader and the immune system starts doing it's job.. destroying that invader (the skin).

Autoimmune diseases can affect the blood, organs, or like rumathoid arthritis, the joints.

The only thing that modern medicine has to fight autoimmune diseases are steroids and immunosuppressing drugs. These will help...but do not cure and will destroy the body over time or depress the immune system to the point that you could die from something as simple as a cold!

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