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whte foot rot

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I am not a veteranarian and can not offer medical advice, only general information for your reference. If your animal is lame or has a foot problem please seek prompt veteranary help.

Your question is very vauge, so I'm not sure exactly what information you're looking for. I'm not aware of a foot problem called White Foot Rot, nor what kind of animal your question concerns.

Foot Rot, or Interdigital Phlegmon, is a disease caused by a bacteria called Fuso-bacterium necrophorum entering a wound in the foot. It affects cloven hoofed animals, like cows, in the area in between the hoof "toes". Symptoms include lameness, swelling, and fever, and the original wound may be infected or oozing a foul-smelling fluid. Antibiotics and a clean environment are the usual treatments. There is a severe, rapid strain of this disease called Super Foot Rot.

White Line Disease, also called Onychomycosis, Stall Rot, Hollow Foot, Wall Thrush, Yeast Infection or Seedy Toe affects horses. Technically it's not a disease but a hoof wall condition caused by infection. As with Foot Rot, it begins by fungi and/or bacteria entering through a wound. Once inside the hoof, they feed upon and destroy the keratin tissue of the hoof wall. Symptoms include soft chalky, crumbly horn tissue in the middle wall (the white color results from the lack of pigment in the stratum medium), a hollow-sounding hoof wall upon percussion, an irregular, thickened white line structure more than 1/8th of an inch in diameter, weak, chipped, shelly walls that cannot hold a shoe, a large hoof wall cavern visible on x-ray, wall separation between the hoof wall and sole at the white line, dish formation along one side of the hoof with a bulge on the opposite side above the infected area, and lameness. Treatment includes removing the infected area of the hoof, antibiotics and fungicides and a clean environment. If a large area of hoof must be removed, additional support from a special shoe or acrylic fill may be required.