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| I have read multiple posts about IAD in horses, feel like we have tried everything without results. We have been to several vets and had her scoped multiple times. Please tell me what regimens have worked to allow your horses to return to barrel racing. |
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Location: Texas | This is what we did:
week 1: 8 puffs of human flonase (OTC can buy at any pharmacy) through a breathing mask every day. Time the puffs when the horse inhales. Then we connected our nebulizer to the mask and nebulized with the equisilver for 25 min every other day.
Week 2: 8 puffs of Flonase through the mask every other day. Nebulized with equisilver every other day.
Week three: 8 puffs Flonase through mask 3 times a week. Nebulized 3 times a week
Week 4 and on: 8 puffs flonase through mask on Wednesdays and on race days. Nebulize Wednesdays and race days.
It worked, and still is working. |
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| I went through inhalers , masks, soaking hay every day, having to park at races to minimize dust, running on ventipulman, previcox daily to keep inflammation down, etc. started my horse on curost Total Care and no more issues. |
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| I second the Cur Ost Total Care. But I would add the immune also for 90 days. |
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| What type of mask did u use for the Flonase. I will try the curost if it has helped that much. How bad were your horses with exercise? |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Cur OST immune and total. My mare was on allergy shots and used aids when running. Stopped it all and only on cut OST now :) |
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Edited by cheeka77 2015-10-18 10:35 PM
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Location: Texas | sport565 - 2015-10-18 7:24 PM
What type of mask did u use for the Flonase. I will try the curost if it has helped that much. How bad were your horses with exercise?
I bought the whole set from EquiResp and used that mask.
This mare had a chronic mucoid discharge coming from her nostrils, antibiotics did nothing for her. She started refusing the alley last September and they couldn't find anything physically wrong with her. She also would cough when you would warm her up every ride. She bled one time too but had never coughed or bled post running before this point in time. So we treated her with antibiotics and after the season was over she was given a month off. She discharge was still there. So after a month of rest we took her to the vet and they did a scope and BAL on her. She had frothy white discharge in her trachea... I was kind of skeptical that they would find blood because she hadn't even been ridden in 30 days, much less ran. BAL results showed sand, neutrophils, and fresh blood in the sample.. so just being out and walking around in the pasture she had enough irritation from the environment to be causing trouble.
We've been nebulizing her for almost a year now, and I can honestly say she rarely coughs anymore and hasn't had any issue with bleeding, drainage, or performance decreases. |
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| Glad to hear that something helps. I have been so discouraged |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Sport if you have mast cells present you need to use a mast cell stabilizer. The above works great on most horses but not those with advanced disease processes. Try the turmeric I really noticed a change and when I took my horse off of it he faltered. It showed up first in his GI then I noticed a difference in the airway.
Your horse may benefit from Autologous Conditioned Serum via nebulization and IV treatments. It runs around $1K |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | Nebulizing and Clem has worked on keeping mine cleared out. He was on dex but I weaned him off. I also give tumeric. I switched his stall to rubber mats, no shavings other that newspaper shreds. kept pastures mowed,peak months he is stalled with turn out for only a few hours. I also wet down feed and soak hay. Religiously! Looking into a steaming unit for next year. |
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