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| Anyone have any remedies? Thank You! |
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Location: Arkansas | Bump |
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Location: Missouri | Pm you |
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| There are none that I know of. This is extremely painful and most often the eye is removed to eliminate the pain. My cousin, who lives in Canada, is an authority on it. I tried to find her information on the internet for someone else but apparently it has been removed. |
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Take a Picture
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| THE HORSE.COM has an article on moon blindness. It did have a couple of newer treatments. I can't copy and paste on my tablet. |
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 Been Blessed
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Location: Living in my Promised Land | Used drops for several years. Finally had the eye removed. |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | I believe some referral places are offering Cyclosporine implants. We do it at TAMU. There's been decent success with it.
The mainstay is atropine, topical steroids, and a heavy duty fly mask that blocks UV. But the cyclosporine implants are showing a lot of promise. |
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Location: /ARKANSAS | It has been awhile since I researched this but from what I can remember it is the same as uveitis, cant see at night. I have a older gelding that I noticed since feeding at night after work he cannot see his hay, more noticeable when I shine the truck's light in the paddock. No treatment or cure that I know exists.
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Veteran
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| I had a pony many moons ago that we treated with a vaccine for Leptospirosis-we gave every 6 months and it controlled the outbreaks. I continued to show my hunter pony until I out grew her.
I think I have read that it is now an accepted use off label for moon blindness. |
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Location: Iowa | 20 years ago: I had good success with electric acupuncture to the eye. yes, 7 years later she went blind but I believe it extended the "life" of the eye. Heavy fly mask was also mentioned and is important. I'm sure there are newer treatments but this is what we did. |
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Location: Millington, TN | My mare has it. She is diagnosed in October of 2015. She went blind from it in October of 2016. We had flare ups monthly. Since she has been blind she has had no flare ups.
I wish there was a treatment but now that she is blind, I am sure that cannot be reversed. Best of luck. PM me if you want to talk. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Southern Indiana | Bumping this up...I may be dealing with this and would like to hear anyone's experiences! |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I had a mare with Moon Blindness in one eye back in the 90s. Vet said she would be fine and never removed the eye. Didn't affect ehr much unless we were roping in a dim arena. She would get really watchy in a dark pen. Never blew up or spooked. Just always had her ears forward.
She lived to be 34 and had no other problems. Best Momma around. Little Bay king mare.
Edited by IRunOnFaith 2017-02-10 10:36 AM
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 Can You Hear Me Now?
Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I have an appy that is blind in one eye and going blind in another. He hasn't had any flareups since his vision was gone. |
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| I had a mare that started to go blind. After $100s of dollars in vet bills and aggressive treatment for moon blindness it turned out not to be moon blindness. I can not testify as to how these treatments work but I can tell you before she was properly diagnosed I was given 4 treatment options for moon blindness:
1. Topical drops (3-4 times a day, {A giant PITA, my mare hated them and became 5150 about it,
a medication tube can be sewed in to make administration easier but my vet suggested no
riding, or turn out while it was in and that they will often rub it out. Some times the treatment
can last weeks})
2. An injection into the eye ball (done under sedation, fairly easy, although there is risk of
damage, is supposed to work for 4-6 months, it was a one and done deal for us)
3. An implant that releases small amounts of steroids (someone has already said the name of it,
although I can't remember what it's called. This is the route we were heading after trying
option 1 and 2 with no results before it was determined her issues were actually caused by the
migration of a foreign object in the eye that was left behind after she poked it with something 2
years prior)
4. Removal
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Location: North MS | Pretty much what the above posters have mentioned. I just spent the day last Wednesday at Mississippi State University because I could not get my mare's watery eye to quit watering. Back story- we had went to an event and I returned home with everyone fine. I fed that night and turned out. I come back the next day and my mare's eye is swollen and has drainage. I flush with saline and apply some bacitracin ointment I had from an incident with my dog's eye. Swelling goes down and she quits rubbing it that week. I keep applying ointment. It keeps watering. So after 3 weeks I decide to call the local vet. Well they couldn't see me. So I call the vet school and they get me in quickly. During all this I had noticed that at night the "bad" eye was not reflecting the same in light compared to the good eye. Fastforward through sedation, dilation, dye, blood tests and lepto tests. They diagnose uveitis. Treating with banamine paste, two different ointments (polymyxin B with a steroid and the "A" mentioned ointmet above. Within three days her eye has quit draining and is reflecting better. No lepto, but blood tests are pointing to a liver problem of some sort. I think I have narrowed it down to my hay- I believe it has "Fall Panicum" grass in it. I received a few rolls from my supplier that were not his normal standard of hay. Next Saturday I'm picking up a new load from a different source and calling the vet school tomorrow with my suspicions. |
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