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| The yearling I posted about a couple weeks ago, with the guttural pouch infection. Went off his feed a couple days ago.
Vet was out this morning.
He has kidney failure.
Going to put him on fluids for 3 days to try to save him.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Oh no so sorry to hear this, never experience this with a horse but my best buddy that was a cat had it and it was not good. Was long and drawn out, I had to but him to sleep about 3 weeks ago.  |
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Location: Idaho | My now 12 yr old gelding was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2007. He was under IV fluid and vet care for a week with about a 20% chance of living. By miracle, his levels started going back to "normal"... If you yearling makes it threw, the biggest thing is to monitor your horses diet. Little protien, Red Cell ® supplement, grass hay, etc... I have been very lucky that my gelding actually has been able to return back to work as a barrel horse and is still going strong, but his diet is everything! We have checked his levels, and his BUN, Creatine and RBC are still of a horse with kdiney failure. However, vets have been impressed with how I have maintained him. I DO NOT feed processed feed to him, I DO NOT give any pain killers like butte, banamine, etc... and he does not get the strangles vaccination. He does not get pasture. It has become easier to maintain him, but I wish you luck! It was not easy but its been a successful almost 7 years since he was last at the hospital, so there is hope for your horse!
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| I am sorry to hear your loss :(
I'm glad you were able to save him. I hope my guy can pull through as well. Monitoring his diet would be easy for me to do. I am glad to hear you had such good results. Thanks for your response. |
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Location: NOT at Wal Mart | Do you know what his creatinine levels were? Besids the fluids, low protein/starch with high fiber. Good luck! |
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| I do not know what his creatine levels were.
They called and said he ate his supper good.
He didn't eat breakfast real well.
Fluids are working well, he is urinating often.
They said he is improving.
Waiting on labs to come back.
It's going to drive me nuts not knowing what caused this :/ |
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Location: Muskogee, OK | Thecowgirlinme - 2013-10-03 10:45 AM I do not know what his creatine levels were. They called and said he ate his supper good. He didn't eat breakfast real well. Fluids are working well, he is urinating often. They said he is improving. Waiting on labs to come back. It's going to drive me nuts not knowing what caused this :/
Has he been on any antibiotics lately--- Aminoglycosides in particular? I've seen some horrible renal failure cases due to this sort of toxicity. There are some other toxic plants and such out there that can cause this as well. Sure hope you can figure it out and get your boy on the mend. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | My stud did that, he was foundering and just went over the edge. Off feed and water and his kidney damage was beyond repair. Had a cat do it too. Not sure what was wrong with the cat, maybe just too old. Hope yours continues to improve |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | How is your colt doing? |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Prayers that your colt is doing better |
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| Well, they increased his fluid. He continues to eat and drink and he is pooping and ironist ing. However his blood work has not changed since he has been there Wednesday afternoon.
He WAS on antibiotics for his guttural pouch infection. Banamine, potassium penicillin, gentamicin, DMSO and yeast. Then On tucoprim powder and banamine.
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Location: Muskogee, OK | Thecowgirlinme - 2013-10-04 1:38 PM Well, they increased his fluid. He continues to eat and drink and he is pooping and ironist ing. However his blood work has not changed since he has been there Wednesday afternoon. He WAS on antibiotics for his guttural pouch infection. Banamine, potassium penicillin, gentamicin, DMSO and yeast. Then On tucoprim powder and banamine.
Gentamicin (an aminoglycoside) could surely do this. Have they told you what the specific gravity of his urine is? Unfortunately at this point I think all you can really do is push the fluids through him and wait. The bad deal with renal failure is it takes a large portion of the kidney to be damaged before the horse starts actually showing signs.
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| No they haven't.
Just said his creatine levels are still very high
How many days should you push fluids until you know you aren't going to be able to Help him?
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| He has been on fluids for 48 hours with no changes.
Now they are recommending peritoneal dialysis.
Any experience with it?
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Location: Florida.. | No but many prayers.. I agree the antibiotics most likely did this. |
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