hunter-eventer-hunter
Aug. 31, 2009, 08:24 AM
Any help on this one would be good: We have a 14 year old home breed TB. Never raced, light hunter work, is outside about 20 hours a day. She has been the healtiest horse I have evet known until this week. She was losing conidtion the second part of August. Losing some muscle and just seemed lazy. On Monday 24th she was really out of breath coming in from the field. Had vet out that day.
She was diagnosed with heaves like/allergies and a mis-alinged back. We are in KY and this summer has been really wet and cold so we have some really crazy mold and weed's going on. Vet said she had seen many odd allergy/heaves cases this summer in horses with no history.
Chiro has been out for the back already so that is not a red alert. She had no fever on Monday, her WBC looked good but some other blood factors were really messed up. She went on a 5 day course of Dexamethasone, Cough Syrup, Trihist 2X a day, blood booster and limited turnout. And is going to start of Power Pack as soon as we can get the breathing sorted out.
She was done with the dexamethasone Saturday and her Cough Syrup on Saturday and by Sunday here breathing was really bad again. She also had a fever, 103.5. That was a new symptom. So last night another vet saw her (my regualr vet was not on call this weekend) and she got 20 MG dose of Dexamethesone, 5 CC of Albuteriol (for asthma) and we turned her out in her regular T.O.
She had gone off her feed and was very depressed.
New symptom this morning...she has trickles of bloos out of her nose. The regular vet will be out to the barn as soon as she can.
We may be going to Rood and Riddle today as we are in Kentucky about an hour away, but this girl HATES trailers (that will add even more stress to an already stressed out girl).
I will go if we need to, but any other ideas :(
She was diagnosed with heaves like/allergies and a mis-alinged back. We are in KY and this summer has been really wet and cold so we have some really crazy mold and weed's going on. Vet said she had seen many odd allergy/heaves cases this summer in horses with no history.
Chiro has been out for the back already so that is not a red alert. She had no fever on Monday, her WBC looked good but some other blood factors were really messed up. She went on a 5 day course of Dexamethasone, Cough Syrup, Trihist 2X a day, blood booster and limited turnout. And is going to start of Power Pack as soon as we can get the breathing sorted out.
She was done with the dexamethasone Saturday and her Cough Syrup on Saturday and by Sunday here breathing was really bad again. She also had a fever, 103.5. That was a new symptom. So last night another vet saw her (my regualr vet was not on call this weekend) and she got 20 MG dose of Dexamethesone, 5 CC of Albuteriol (for asthma) and we turned her out in her regular T.O.
She had gone off her feed and was very depressed.
New symptom this morning...she has trickles of bloos out of her nose. The regular vet will be out to the barn as soon as she can.
We may be going to Rood and Riddle today as we are in Kentucky about an hour away, but this girl HATES trailers (that will add even more stress to an already stressed out girl).
I will go if we need to, but any other ideas :(