b'Practical ESS Symposium take-homes for anyone who feeds and other-wise cares for horsesREAL-WORLD RESEARCHCOURTESY KRISTINA DAVISALEXANDRA BECKSTETT1. Equine veterinarians cant tell what type of colic a horse is experiencing based on clinical signs alone. What they can determine is when medical treatment very two years the Equine Science Society (ESS) holds a E symposium covering the latest equine nutrition, management,isnt working and when signs are getting more severeboth of which suggest a and physiology research. The 2019 edition took place June 3-6horse might need to go to surgery.in Asheville, North Carolina, and was attended by hundreds 2. Colic treatment has been made among them researchers, professors, nutritionists, extension person- more complicated by barn manag-nel, product manufacturers, students, and, of course, The Horse.ers and caretakers having access to Weve brought you a sampling of our favorite take-homes here. Forpain-relieving non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such complete study summaries and much more symposium coverage,as phenylbutazone (Bute) and flunixin visit TheHorse.com/ESS2019. meglumine (Banamine), on the farm, Blikslager said. These drugs can give 8 Facts About Colic them the impression that clinical Anthony Blikslager, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, professor of equine surgery and gastro- signs have resolved when, in fact, they enterology at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, kicked off the symposiumhavent. Ideally, owners should be with his perspective as an equine surgeon on colic prevention. Here are eight facts fromnotifying their veterinarians when ad-his lecture: ministering an NSAID, he said. And as TheHorse.com | The HorseOctober 201921'