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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | I'm looking for similar experiences. Mare had COPD-like pnuemonia August 2015. Never sick, no fever, good appetitie. Fast forward to June 2016. Same small cough. White count of 25000. Scopes clean. Passes bag test. Doesn't get winded. Nothing in BAL. Can't find anything with x-rays or ultrasounds. Antibiotics isn't touching this. Five days of penicillin followed by five shots of Excede over the last month. VERY high neutrophil count. Normal leukocytes. Seen at Red River Equine in Benton, Dixie Equine in Jackson, and Mississippi State Vet Hospital. What is wrong with my mare??????? | |
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| I saw you said she had COPD like pneumonia?? Can you explain what you mean by that?
Also you said she had high WBCs and normal leukocytes. WBCs and leukocytes are the same thing. Do you mean lymphocytes? There's are 5 types of WBCs. Neutrophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, and basophils.
If they suspected she had COPD did they have her on a corticosteroid when they obtained blood? Just wondering...
Edited by cn1705 2016-09-04 8:17 AM
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Location: Dubach, LA | Lymphocytes are normal. She had a double round of uniprim in June and five Excede shots in August. Nothing lowers her WBC. Apparently regular pnemonia and pnemonia caused by a heaves condition sound different to the vets. She hasn't had any steroids. She is the picture of good health. Except for the WBC of 26,000 and neutrophils of 20.+ The vet at MSU was expecting her counts to be close to normal after the Excede. I guess I'll wait and see what he says. Local vet guesses it must be an unlocated walled off abcess. | |
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| My mare has come up with something very similar in the last month as well. Started off as a random, dry cough which progressed to a rattle when she breathes, wet sounding cough in a few days. She was a touch off, just a little more subdued than normal but if you didn't know her you wouldn't have been able to tell. I took her to the vet and they ran a blood test that came back with a high white blood cell count but she passed the bag test, has a good appetite, clear eyes, no runny nose or other symptoms. Never had a fever. Did a full round of Uniprim and that seemed to help some. She got her normal level of spunk back and a week after I took her in the first time, I took her back to the vet for a check-up and they said her lungs sounded better but they still heard some stuff in there and recommended another two weeks off.
I still hear her cough very occasionally but it is back to the dry cough. It has been very dusty and dry around here for most of the summer and due to her being a piggly wiggly she has been in our lot on the Jenny Craig diet so I originally thought it was just a dust cough. Until it turned nasty, rattly. That is gone now but she still has a cough and at the most random times. She can tear around the lot, kicking and bucking and working herself up and never do a thing but then when she's just standing around she'll cough once. She still has another week off and we've started to get some rain so we'll see if it clears up. If not, back to the vet we go. I feel your frustration! | |
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Location: Dubach, LA | Now the university vet thinks the strange blood readings may be the lingering result of the Herpes virus. He said to ride her. | |
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