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Location: the land of dust & sticks | ok so long story short, horse had a chronic cough for a couple months, ended up getting off of him for a month and treating with multiple therapies, finally gave antibiotics helped but didn’t cure. Cough is now almost gone only coughing like 2x when first get on him. Vet has thought it has been allergy related/ dust/ mold etc because we have been SO wet this summer. Well now his respiration’s are increased. Thought maybe heaves? Took him in to vet.....lungs sound fine. Asa test of 7. Scoped- airway clean no mucous or blood but airway was oval shaped instead of round and had lots of blood vessels(assuming from chronic inflammation) and had a ligament that kept jerking on dorsal aspect. Horse was sedated for scope....mine always have been but after talking with a friend that worked for a big time reputable vet she was saying he shouldn’t have been sedated that that could have made the trachea misshaped due to relaxation...anybody had this happen??
so vet said try steroids as if he was a horse with light case of heaves, well that hasn’t helped. She showed images and discussed story with another vet who has been I need business a long time and explained story...he thinks horse may have collapsed trachea...rare.... so now they want me to bring him back in and do an endoscopy if trachea at rest and then work him and do it again and send to someone to look at. Anybody have any insight? I’m at wits end I just want my horse well. Thank you. |
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| Had the same thing go on. Ended up doing a scope/camera while actually running barrels to get true visual what was happening while running. |
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Location: the land of dust & sticks | What did you find out? |
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| My mare also has the same issue, she only collapses and chokes when she is very hard at work, in a bigger pattern I can hear her gasp by third barrel.
There isn't much you can do that I am told, she is also allergy related, and she also bleeds as well
I run her on lasix, give her some equipulmin 1/2 hour before I run.
and her daily feeding, she is out on pasture in the summer and free choice very clean alfalfa hay, I keep her off all processed feeds, she eats hemp, and alfalfa pellets as her daily grain, and I give her vitamin e, and curost total support and immune daily.
Last year I was still figuring out a program for her, and this year I haven't had her collapse and choke like she has in the past, I know her limits and listen to her breathing, I give her lots of time to catch her breath is she is struggling while warming up.
I use a nebulizer now and then for her bleeding, but it wont help her larynx due to the weak area is so high up, right behind her epiglottis. |
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Location: the land of dust & sticks | I’m not convinced it’s a collapsing trachea as all this just started this summer and we’ve had a very overly wet summer and hay is not of the quality it could be because if weather too. I’m thinking it’s some environmental allergy. I’m talking with a couple other vets for opinions too. May head back to vet for more diagnostics soon. And I might add that originally I had other horses coughing with this one and they have cleared up with different treatments
Edited by barrelchasinmonki 2018-09-18 10:38 AM
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Location: WI | Message wetsaddleblankets. She had experience with this. |
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