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| My daughters pony has uvetis. The vet has given me drops for his eye but that is it. I've been researching and finding that people keep the horses with uvetis on banamine or bute all the time. I've also heard people feed MSM. Does anyone have a horse with uvetis and can give advice to help me make our pony more comfortable? |
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| This disease makes me go RAAAAWWWWRRR! The mare in my avatar has it. We treated it with Neo Poly Dex, I wasn't getting any improvement so we went to Neo Poly Bac. My vet did not want to treat with a bute or banamine regiment because of the other health factors involved.
My mare still has flare-ups and so when we see it start to develop we resume treatment immediately, 3 to 4 times a day.
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Location: NE Texas | Please contact Dr. Schell at www.nouvelleresearch.com. He recently posted an article regarded the top 5 conditions he is contacted for help with. Uveitis was on that list. It is an inflammatory condition of the eye, and yes, will likely require daily anti-inflammtories of some kind. This is where the Cur-OST comes in. Here is the link to the top 5 conditions article with additional information on each: https://nouvelleresearch.com/index.php/articles/399-top-6-equine-conditions-that-benefit-from-cur-ost |
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| The mare in my profile picture has Uveitis from the leptospirosis she was diagnosed with this summer. She gets steroid injections in her eye and has drops that she gets 3x a day. We were looking into surgery to have a steroid plate inserted into her hind eye, but then she got hurt and we decided to breed her this spring so not worth the expense. We can keep her comfortable with the injections, eye drops, and banamine. |
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| My vet prescribed ciprofloxacin. It sounds like he should be on a steroid and banamine...I'm going to supplement with MSM and see if that will help too. |
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Location: MS | My son's old pony had it as well. She was completely blind in that eye anyway so I had planned on having the eye removed just so she would be more comfortable but unfortunately we lost her before I could.
I was advised to get a guardian mask to keep on her when she was outside in the sun, gave her MSM, and an herbal bute daily. Plus, the drops the vet prescribed when she had a flare up. |
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| FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-11-12 5:05 PM
The mare in my profile picture has Uveitis from the leptospirosis she was diagnosed with this summer. She gets steroid injections in her eye and has drops that she gets 3x a day. We were looking into surgery to have a steroid plate inserted into her hind eye, but then she got hurt and we decided to breed her this spring so not worth the expense. We can keep her comfortable with the injections, eye drops, and banamine.
Plus she was already getting MSM through her joint supplements, so I totally spaced that yes, I guess she gets that too. haha We didn't start for that reason, but if it helps, double benefits. haha |
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Location: Mountains of Arizona | My barrel horse has it in his left eye. It has taken most of his vision and the vet says he sees 50% 50% of the time on a good day. I feed him one drop of frankincense essential oil once a day and the homeopathic remedy hypericum (one dropper full once a day). It is considered an autoimmune disease so I try and balance the immune system. Since my horse was diagnosed 2 years ago he has had 1 flare up. I gave him time off and he was back in 2 weeks ready to go. When he had the flare up and he was in a lot if pain I gave him one shot of Dex, but that is the only time. The essential oils and homeopathic stuff is working.
My vet told me that pain management was the big thing to worry about. He also cautioned me that by managing the pain with bute, banamine or Dex would lead to secondary issues.
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Location: NE Texas | happyhorsehotel - 2015-11-13 1:09 PM My barrel horse has it in his left eye. It has taken most of his vision and the vet says he sees 50% 50% of the time on a good day. I feed him one drop of frankincense essential oil once a day and the homeopathic remedy hypericum (one dropper full once a day). It is considered an autoimmune disease so I try and balance the immune system. Since my horse was diagnosed 2 years ago he has had 1 flare up. I gave him time off and he was back in 2 weeks ready to go. When he had the flare up and he was in a lot if pain I gave him one shot of Dex, but that is the only time. The essential oils and homeopathic stuff is working. My vet told me that pain management was the big thing to worry about. He also cautioned me that by managing the pain with bute, banamine or Dex would lead to secondary issues. Good Luck.
Again, I encourage you to contact Dr. Schell with the Cur-OST product. The primary goal with this product is to manage the inflammatory response and manage the pain associated with these issues. It helps get the immune system reacting at a normal level as well and get the inflammation under control so these conditions don't continue to persist. I promise you he can help your horse with product that won't contribute to any additional issue, but rather actually help with ulcers, joints, and other issues as well. |
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Location: South MS | My daughters gelding will have flair ups. We put him on MSM and he hasn't had a flair up since. I did the loading dose for 1 month and now he is on the maintenance dose and has been fine since.
When he had a flair up we did prednisone drops and atropine and he would stay in his stall during light hours with a fly mask with duck tape over the eye with issues.
There are implants you can do but we have been able to manage it so we never looked further in it.
Make sure you buy a good quality MSM with no fillers. We use Animed brand and love it. |
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Location: /ARKANSAS | I took my barrel gelding 8 years old to Dr. Storey at LSU this was about 8-9 years ago. He had recurrent uveitis in one eye and a cataract in the other. There is no cure, he told me to give him aspirin crushed everyday for the pain, but then he colicked on that, for the past 8 years he has been completely blind, still has both eyes, does not act as if he is in pain, and I have worried about him and his quality of life. I just could not put him down, and he was really scared when this was happening, he started spooking at things, took 3 fences down until I got him alone in his own space, he looks phenomenal, breaks my heart.
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| Ciprofloxacin is an antibiotic unless the uveitis is being caused by a corneal ulcer it is useless. When treating a immune mediated uveitis a horse really needs to be on aggressive steroid treatment to reduce inflammation and atropine to dilate the pupil, otherwise the pupil will get "sticky" and could cause a painful pressure spike resulting in glaucoma. I'm an optometrist, uveitis is painful, often times recurrent and sight threatening, if I had a horse that had recurring uveitis I would definitely consider a cyclosporine implant for long term management. |
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Location: lost in missouri | Here is my regument for my uvetis boy. After we spend over $6500 on his eyes this has kept us from another flare up for 12 years.
BL Pellets, use these in place of bute and banamine
MSM anti inflammatory
AniHist H
and the most important thing a GUARDIAN MASK, it is so much different from a regular fly mask. Well worth the money and they hold up very well. The website for Guardian Mask has a lot of information on uveitis as well.
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| My gelding had uveitis that led to several other issues. His seemed to flare up in the warmer months from the sunlight, so I kept a fly mask on him. He also developed an ulcer that abcessed. Then he got glaucoma. He had very limited vision, but I was not ready to remove the eye. I administered eye drops daily, sometimes twice daily if he was having a flare up. He got prednisolone for the uveitis and dorzolomide with Timolol for the glaucoma. I think his issues caused him to have a headache and the stress and pain led to stomach issues so I also kept him on daily omeprazole. If he had a flare up I would give him banamine. We had tried the steroid injections, but the results were not long lasting for our horse. He was turned out for the winter and did not receive daily drops and completely lost vision in a short amount of time. We were going to remove the eye but my vet wanted to try nerving him first. He still has the eye, but since we haven't ridden him much since being nerved I can't say if that took care of it or if we'll still need to remove the eye.
The big thing about eyes is that you need to treat aggressively or you risk vision loss. |
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Location: Texas | if its truly equine recurrent uveitis the goals of treating that is pain management, decrease inflammation, and preserve sight.
for the drops, they need to have anti-inflammatories in them, like steroids. This is one of the only times we want to put steroids in the eye. For other eye problems like infection, you DONT want steroids in the eye. But with uveitis, its an autoimmune disorder, and steroids help with that because it tones down a ramped up immune system. And when you put steroid drops in the eye, it stays there, and its not like you are treating the whole body with steroids.
Also, because of all the inflammation going on in the eye, and the pain involved, when they have a flare up they *REALLY* should be given atropine eye drops as well. It keeps the pupil dilated and reduced the likelihood that the iris will end up sticking to the lens and causing permanent issues, thats called posterior synechia and once they get it, they can't adjust their pupil size anymore because the iris is glued down to the lens. Also, the iris muscle is spasming and having it dilated reduces pain.
A new-ish treatment is the use of long term cyclosporine implants. They give a sustained dose in the eye for 24 months, and theres been good results with them. A study they presented in class said 75% didnt have subsequent episodes after the implants, and many horses don't need the implant more than once. |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Herbie - 2015-11-13 3:48 PM happyhorsehotel - 2015-11-13 1:09 PM My barrel horse has it in his left eye. It has taken most of his vision and the vet says he sees 50% 50% of the time on a good day. I feed him one drop of frankincense essential oil once a day and the homeopathic remedy hypericum (one dropper full once a day). It is considered an autoimmune disease so I try and balance the immune system. Since my horse was diagnosed 2 years ago he has had 1 flare up. I gave him time off and he was back in 2 weeks ready to go. When he had the flare up and he was in a lot if pain I gave him one shot of Dex, but that is the only time. The essential oils and homeopathic stuff is working. My vet told me that pain management was the big thing to worry about. He also cautioned me that by managing the pain with bute, banamine or Dex would lead to secondary issues. Good Luck. Again, I encourage you to contact Dr. Schell with the Cur-OST product. The primary goal with this product is to manage the inflammatory response and manage the pain associated with these issues. It helps get the immune system reacting at a normal level as well and get the inflammation under control so these conditions don't continue to persist. I promise you he can help your horse with product that won't contribute to any additional issue, but rather actually help with ulcers, joints, and other issues as well.
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Location: NE Texas | SmokinGirlie - 2015-11-17 1:06 PM Herbie - 2015-11-13 3:48 PM happyhorsehotel - 2015-11-13 1:09 PM My barrel horse has it in his left eye. It has taken most of his vision and the vet says he sees 50% 50% of the time on a good day. I feed him one drop of frankincense essential oil once a day and the homeopathic remedy hypericum (one dropper full once a day). It is considered an autoimmune disease so I try and balance the immune system. Since my horse was diagnosed 2 years ago he has had 1 flare up. I gave him time off and he was back in 2 weeks ready to go. When he had the flare up and he was in a lot if pain I gave him one shot of Dex, but that is the only time. The essential oils and homeopathic stuff is working. My vet told me that pain management was the big thing to worry about. He also cautioned me that by managing the pain with bute, banamine or Dex would lead to secondary issues. Good Luck. Again, I encourage you to contact Dr. Schell with the Cur-OST product. The primary goal with this product is to manage the inflammatory response and manage the pain associated with these issues. It helps get the immune system reacting at a normal level as well and get the inflammation under control so these conditions don't continue to persist. I promise you he can help your horse with product that won't contribute to any additional issue, but rather actually help with ulcers, joints, and other issues as well.
Another great article about a case study with horse suffering from chronic Uveitis. https://nouvelleresearch.com/index.php/articles/381-case-study-equine-recurrent-uveitis |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | I just went through this with my horse. The banamine is essential to keep down the inflammation in the eye and allow it to drain the excess fluid. (the vet had me do it for 9 days then pull them off to see if fluid fills or inflammation returns) I had one horse that the eye turned green and the other horse turned cloudy/whitish. The eye is usually dialated with atropine and horse should be kept inside/out of sunlight. I put 2 different ointments in twice a day. I don't have the name of the ointment memorized but I can look it up and get back to you if you're interested. The goal is to keep the eye from wrinkling/rippling. Scarring can occur if not taken care of right away therefore creating reoccuring ulcers. My other horse had this therefore we had to go in and remove part of his eye so it could regenerate. His eye was a $10,000 eye. :/ Not sure where you live but I would find an eye specialist. Uvetis is no joke and no one wants to deal with it forever. If not taken care of properly then it can turn into an auto-immune issue. Good luck and I wish you the best. |
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