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| Last Friday my horse had to have emergency surgery to remove a bone that connects to her THO bone... The THO bone was moving and creating neurological issues. Since the surgery my horse has been discharged but still has paralysis on the right side of her face and is still neurologic in her back end. (off balance a little and walks drunk at times) They are unsure to what the future holds for my horse and if she will ever be able to be ridden let alone barrel race. Is there any advice or suggestions that I could do in order to improve these signs. Help her gain her balance back to where she can be turned out? I have been keeping her magnetic blanket on her and taking her hand grazing. I am all for trying anything to help my girl! Thank you so much!
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I'm just going to take a guess here. I wonder if it will just take time to recover completely. Anything neuro always seems to be a slow recovery. Good luck for you. |
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| If you are willing to try natural therapy...check into a product called Qing Hao San.
It is a chinese herb you add to their feed. One container is about $150.00.
That and maybe acupuncture?
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Tried and True
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Location: Where I am happiest | Go to your local wal-mart or pharmacy store and buy some human vit. e. Get the 1000 IU caplets and make sure it is the d-alpha not the dl-alpha. High doses of vit e have proven by clinical studies to help neurological issues in horses. You can go to google and type it in also and pull up all kinds of good info. They are also using it with great success on EPM horses as well. Feed at least 3000 IU a day. I just bite the tip of the gel cap and squeeze it on their grain. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | ThreeCorners - 2014-07-29 10:04 PM Go to your local wal-mart or pharmacy store and buy some human vit. e. Get the 1000 IU caplets and make sure it is the d-alpha not the dl-alpha. High doses of vit e have proven by clinical studies to help neurological issues in horses. You can go to google and type it in also and pull up all kinds of good info. They are also using it with great success on EPM horses as well. Feed at least 3000 IU a day. I just bite the tip of the gel cap and squeeze it on their grain.
Wow this is some good information, thanks for sharing  |
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| I use herbs. Silver Lining has a good product for neurological issues. They also have a great immune builder. But with that being said, if this was my horse, I would do an hair analysis. That way you know exactly what us needed to heal. The person I use only charges $25.00. If you want her information PM me. |
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Location: Home of the World Famous "Silver Bullet" | ThreeCorners - 2014-07-29 11:04 PM Go to your local wal-mart or pharmacy store and buy some human vit. e. Get the 1000 IU caplets and make sure it is the d-alpha not the dl-alpha. High doses of vit e have proven by clinical studies to help neurological issues in horses. You can go to google and type it in also and pull up all kinds of good info. They are also using it with great success on EPM horses as well. Feed at least 3000 IU a day. I just bite the tip of the gel cap and squeeze it on their grain. it will take 2 weeks for the vit.e to get into the system. there is a water soluble E that will get there in 24 hrs. gooogle water soluble vit E equine. also T.H.E. has a mega dose vit.E we feed to a 1D horse with some nerve damage.
we fed the water souble for 2 weeks while the other was making its way though the system.
the product is, Elevate W.S. Natural Vitamin E
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Location: Texas | ThreeCorners - 2014-07-29 10:04 PM
Go to your local wal-mart or pharmacy store and buy some human vit. e. Get the 1000 IU caplets and make sure it is the d-alpha not the dl-alpha. High doses of vit e have proven by clinical studies to help neurological issues in horses. You can go to google and type it in also and pull up all kinds of good info. They are also using it with great success on EPM horses as well. Feed at least 3000 IU a day. I just bite the tip of the gel cap and squeeze it on their grain.
I agree with ThreeCorners but at higher levels. 20,000IU 1st week, 10,000IU 2nd week and 5,000IU 3rd week or you can stay at 10,000 for nuerological horse. Vitamin E is not toxic at high levels. |
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boon
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| Wow!!! Thank yall so much for all the info. Never heard of the Vitamin E so I will check into that! Thanks again everyone! |
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | When you get ready to work...hand walk over ground poles. Hand walk little hills. Take it slowly though, get vit e going first.
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| Platinum Performance makes a straight Vitamin E supplement also and it is the natural vitamin E, horses cannot absorb synthetic vitamin E very well at all, hence the D-alpha instead of the dl-alpha. |
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Location: mi | Smartpak has their Natural vitamin E on sale. It is close in the pricing normally to the Platinum. As the Platinum has higher UI numbers per serving. But with the sale it is just a bit cheaper and if you get the big container you get free shipping. |
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Location: Outside of Larryville, KS | Vitamin E definitely helps neurological conditions in horses, but you have to be careful and do your research on the best Vitamin E to give and whether or not it will be absorbed properly. Check out these 2 products http://kppusa.com/all-products/elevate-ws/ http://www.kerx.com/products/Nano-E/ there are university research papers that back it up that are unbiased studies done by independent entities. They are moderately priced and if you choose to use it, you can start with it and then go to a maintenance product like http://kppusa.com/all-products/elevate-maintenance-powder/ . I use the Elevate maintenance powder for a horse with Shivers and have seen good results. |
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