River - 2016-01-01 12:41 PM

I do not make my own, but we use colloidal silver at times. My coworkers swear by it and were the ones to get us using it. Im not a faithful user, but I will tell you I had recurrent kidney infections last year and doctors kept switching antibiotics. During the last infection, I continually used Collodial silver for about a month following and the infection went away for good. Idk, could be coincidental but like I said, my coworkers swear by it. Following this thread....

cheryl makofka - 2016-01-01 12:22 PM There is something to do with essential oils and acupressure points. I have tried to find the lady but I don't even know her name, but what she did to my horse I haven't met anyone who could duplicate it. I was only 14 at the time, my dad was introduced to her and she wanted to expand her craft so my horse was her lab rat. The horse was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in front joints, was getting injections regularly Anyway she applied a mixture of 2-3 oils on the pressure points on the leg, I kid you not the horse kicked out and all the heat in the leg was gone, the leg was cold. If you find out what could duplicate this please message me.

grinandbareit - 2016-01-01 2:24 PM


I'm on the DMSO kick right now... reading a GREAT book about DMSO and it's uses. I have incorporated it into some therapies I'm testing. The results are looking good!

grinandbareit - 2016-01-01 12:14 PM I have been doing some research on the holistic approach to healing, and I am so excited about what I am finding out! I am actually making my own colloidal silver now, and I am incorporating some essential oils and "other stuff", I'm not prepared to discuss yet, lol. But it is sure showing promise for my horses. Especially Stormy! The more research I do, the more I wonder why we don't utilize some of these things, and why they aren't more main stream. I feel like it is a money thing for sure. I've always been a little into the holistic approach to things, but now, I may turn into that lady you run from when you see her coming! I am making my own colloidal silver and having great success with it. I'm making it about 20 - 30ppm which is working AWESOME in the nebulizer for my allergy plagued gelding. I'm mixing it with some "stuff" and I'm hoping to get a great report when we do our next scope in about 45 days. Anyone else make their own CS, or have some good holistic methods that they have found success with? Please post and let us know what it is!

uno-dos-tres! - 2016-01-01 3:38 PM


What allergens are setting your horse off? I've got one that seems to be much worse in the ragweed season. And dust...oh how I hate the drought we've been in. I sure hope its over! 

May I suggest that you do a BAL and a Trach wash they will pick up different pathogenes. My vet scoped and said he's clean I don't think we're going to find anything...did a BAL and he had low grade inflammation. Thankfully no Mast cells. 

I've found its best to use a mesh nebulizer. But really getting the meds in with a jet or ultrasonic are indeed helping the horse. 

I had some amazing pictures on a mare that had a horrific injury that we used CS on to help her healing.  

grinandbareit - 2016-01-01 4:14 PM I've been battling with this for two years... We've done the BAL and trach wash. This horse got super sick in Ok City his juvie year and came home with a 106 temp and stayed sick for 2 weeks... It caused some kind of an issue with his immune system. I have tried EVERYTHING and although I can use drugs to help his symptoms, it is doing nothing to solve the problem. I also have a pythium issue here. I believe that this a hughly misdiagnosed problem. We are doing the vaccine now, but cicatrix is visible in the tracheal area, though it is minimal. I bought a really good nebulizer and have been using dmso in addition to CS at least 2X day. His drainage and cough are WAY better and the drainage that does exist is clear and very thin. I'm excited to see what the scope shows when I take him back. He's been on allergy shots for nearly 2 years now, too. My older gelding has the pythium allergy and is off pasture, but seems to be responding well to the vaccine. We'll see how things go when this series is done and he is on pasture again.

rodeomom3 - 2016-01-01 5:34 PM

Joy, mine have the pythium issue also. We moved to our new place in April, one bled at Waco in September. I immediately had him scoped by vet on site and found the pythium. They had a mild cough which I attributed to allergies. Mine never coughed at my old place. I gave the vaccine to all 5 of mine, I had no stalls yet, just run ins, so all were still on pasture. Repeated scopes showed all healed while remaining on pasture. I scoped them every couple of months to keep tabs on it. They were clean till the following fall, gave the vaccine again and they cleared up. I give the vaccine annually now. Good luck,with yours, hope the vaccine works as well for you, not all horses respond to it.  Matt gives me a throat wash that is great for the swelling and irritation. 

rodeomom3 - 2016-01-01 7:20 PM  If mine had not bled, I would not have had them scoped, thankfully we caught within a few months of initial exposure to whatever the irritant is.   I agree about how common it is, no telling how many horses are not diagnosed. Many vets do not give the vaccine, A&M will not give it.   I don't understand their thinking, even if it is nit effective for all horses it is worth trying. The vaccine is absolutely the only reason mine healed.