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| I have a mare that I am positive has ulcers. She started acting funny at the gate and leaving some of her food behind. She is incredibly nervous and I need to start treating her asap.
Ive done a ton of research and I put her on a low starch feed and stared feeding her aloe vera juice. I have heard that omeprazole is good for treatment. I am going to buy the omeprazole and put it in applesauce. How much of he omeprazole do you give per dose, how often do you give it and how long do you treat? I plan on following up with something like neighlox or u guard.. are those good supplements or is there something better on the market? What is most effective and cost efficient? I have no experience with ulcers. |
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| Ompramzole is only thing that will cute. It is very expensive unless you can get your vet to have it compounded for you. 30 cc's a day for 30 days and then follow up with preventative for maintenance. |
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| check out Lecithin granules, I've been using this herb it is working and not expensive $28 for 2 lbs get on amazon.com |
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Location: Wyoming | Where do you get omeprazole?? |
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Location: Texas | There is a black Friday deal for Omeprazole OTC. I think it's $120 for 30 days. Seems about as cheap as you can get. |
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Location: Texas | ladyjockey - 2013-12-01 7:33 PM check out Lecithin granules, I've been using this herb it is working and not expensive $28 for 2 lbs get on amazon.com Tell us more!! How much do you feed? How long?
ETA: I googled Lecithin and horses and found this very interesting article:
http://horsedigests.com/ulcers-and-lecithin-digestion-and-your-horse/
Edited by Fun2Run 2013-12-01 9:41 PM
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Location: Back in California | Call Doug Gordon at ulcercure OTC . Good product, good to work with & board member. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | There is a thread on here for omeprozale with Doug on here he will take an order for you ... look for black Friday on here. |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | 3t4955 - 2013-12-01 6:13 PM I have a mare that I am positive has ulcers. She started acting funny at the gate and leaving some of her food behind. She is incredibly nervous and I need to start treating her asap. Ive done a ton of research and I put her on a low starch feed and stared feeding her aloe vera juice. I have heard that omeprazole is good for treatment. I am going to buy the omeprazole and put it in applesauce. How much of he omeprazole do you give per dose, how often do you give it and how long do you treat? I plan on following up with something like neighlox or u guard.. are those good supplements or is there something better on the market? What is most effective and cost efficient? I have no experience with ulcers.
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Location: North Dakota | Fun2Run - 2013-12-01 9:30 PM ladyjockey - 2013-12-01 7:33 PM check out Lecithin granules, I've been using this herb it is working and not expensive $28 for 2 lbs get on amazon.com Tell us more!! How much do you feed? How long?
ETA: I googled Lecithin and horses and found this very interesting article:
http://horsedigests.com/ulcers-and-lecithin-digestion-and-your-hors...
Bump for more info, tons of info about lecithin online, just not quantity. (that I found yet)
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Location: Oklahoma | How much do you give???
Lecithin??
Cheapest place to get granules
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Location: Abbotsford B.C. Canada | I suggest you try just 2 lbs of alfalfa hay or cubes about two hours before your run. This acts as a natural stomach buffer. Grass hay is ok but the alfalfa will truly act as a buffer when the horse works and acid gets splashed up into the top part of the stomach. The horse's problem is the upper part of the stomach has no mucous lining so it burns like crazy when they get acid up there. It is like acid relux in your system.
Any horse working like yours actually will compress its body and tend to shove the lower acid part of the stomach up anyways and the same goes for any horse collecting up. Mostt cribbers probably have an ulcers for example. This also relates to how horses are set up to breathe. When they run and rock back and forth, the gut contents slide back and forth and act like a piston pushing on the diaphram to help breathingand naturally the stomach. So a horse breathes on every stride up to about 120 /min. Some race horses breathe on every second stride they get so smart.
This is an advantage running away from a mountain lion but with continuous work sets up a horse for at least some inflammation from acid moving up or splashing up.
This is information published by vets at U of Tenn. and we use it routinely for performance horses of all types.
The other stuff works but this treats the underlying problem. Use at least a flake of alfalfa a day anyways, it just helps a lot. Time it before work. They do not lose their noodle either.
Maybe try a cup a day milled flax as well as some natural fat helps and flax may have an anti inflammatory effect with the omega 3 fatty acid make up. Low sugar and starch and high fat rations help of course.
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