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The Advice Guru
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| Word of caution
Dex can cause laminitis and founder
Shouldn't be given with another steroid so I would caution on injecting joints while dez is in the system
Also Cushing or pssm dex will cause these horses to founder faster with less then a healthy horse |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | cheryl makofka - 2014-09-19 4:00 PM Word of caution Dex can cause laminitis and founder Shouldn't be given with another steroid so I would caution on injecting joints while dez is in the system Also Cushing or pssm dex will cause these horses to founder faster with less then a healthy horse
Well, that's scary info!!
Also so wanted to say that my Dex is 4ml |
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 BHW's Lance Armstrong 
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | First of all it depends on how many miligrams are in each cc.
If it has 3mg or 4mg give 4cc 4 hours before competition.
Dex puts a horse to sleep because it is over loading the system.
By the time 4 hours has past the horse is ready to wake up and run.
When I say puts a horse to sleep i mean droggy and won't perform well, sluggish.
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Location: West River - SoDak | I was prescribed a daily 22 mL dose of dex for my horse administered orally.... with twice daily 8 mL ventipulmin dose... for a month. |
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 Coyote Country Queen
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| Thanks for the info, keep it coming!
Just a quick update. Gave her the 10cc at what I thought would be an hour and a half out. Ended up being 2 hours prior to our run. She coughed a little warming up, and again a little after our run, but otherwise was pretty good. She ran .8 off. Today we ran without it at approximately 17 hours after the dex. She coughed more during the warm up, and was pretty winded after the run blowing air out of her mouth and coughing. She took quite a while to return to normal respiration. She ran .5 off. With both runs she felt like she was really running harder than what she's done in the past. I'll go ahead and dose her again for tomorrow's run. Hoping that this is the answer to the breathing problem. I'm going to talk with my vet, but will probably try to start reducing the dose and maybe I can get her off of some of the other breathing meds that she's on. |
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BHW's Lance Armstrong
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | Haidalittle - 2014-09-20 9:26 AM I was prescribed a daily 22 mL dose of dex for my horse administered orally.... with twice daily 8 mL ventipulmin dose... for a month.
With that much Dex per day your horse may get a cold by lowering the immune system. |
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Location: not settling | The vet instructed us to use no more than 2cc of the 4mg 2 hours out, otherwise it will cause immune system complications. It's for hubby's head horse and he has heaves and bad allergies. He also can't eat hay or alfalfa directly anymore, he is on alfalfa cubes, grass, grain and a mineral lick tub. |
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