Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome Basics
Michelle Anderson
August 15, 2020
Learn about the risk factors associated with horses getting gastric ulcers, as well as diagnosis and basic management and treatment.
Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Learn about the risk factors associated with horses getting gastric ulcers, as well as diagnosis and basic management and treatment.
Italian and Australian researchers investigated the relationship between transportation, gastric pH, and gastric ulcers. The team was surprised by some of the results.
The five horses are from three counties.
The horses from Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties were unvaccinated.
A voluntary quarantine was enacted following the affected horse’s diagnosis.
Both NSAIDs induced GI tract inflammation, but phenylbutazone might result in more severe inflammation in the lower GI tract.
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The affected filly is reported as recovering from Eastern equine encephalomyelitis.
The affected horse is Horry County’s fourth and South Carolina’s eighth case this year.
No subsequent equine infectious anemia cases have been detected.
The state veterinarian cautions horse owners and citizens to take precautions against potential infection.
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) causes rapidly progressive and severe respiratory failure and is associated with high mortality in affected patients.
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Five horses in five counties are affected with the mosquito-borne neurologic disease.
The case marks the state’s second equine case of West Nile virus in 2020. The Stanislaus County horse was unvaccinated.
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