Agghhhh - laminitis - what to do!!

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Only had my horse for 2 weeks - old owner said that he had NEVER had laminitis before etc etc, but the blacksmith came tody & said that she looked like she had a touch (he was perfectly alright yesterday), so he got to work & he said that he had had it before -
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- wish the old owners would have told me, cos i would still have brought him, but would have been more cautious.

Any tips on how to get it sorted - i realluy want to take him somewhere on saturday - is that just wishful thinking?
 
Thanks for your advice!! The vet has just been - he only did a few lame strides when he first came out of teh stable & was then fine & was totally fine on grass - turned him on a tight circle on the concrete & the vet was really pleased with him cos he wasn't unsound at all, so fingers crossed we've caught it early & he'll be ok!!

I've put him in a deep shavings bed & got him some happy hoof - i'll take him out tomorrow moringing & see how his!!
 
If a farrier has seen signs of laminitis in the foot, for example a cutting who took. then the horse has had or has been suffering laminitis for some time.

I wouldn't get angry with the old owners, it is quite possible that they did not realise that the horse was suffering laminitis.

If he was mine, he would be in, on a deep bed with hay and water.. scrap the happy hoof.. its not necessary.

Lou x
 
So has the vet diagnosed laminitis ?
If he has , no matter how mild, he needs to be kept in. Don't take him out at all.
If he is sound then I doubt whether he has it now.
Like Nailed says, scrap the HH its not necessary.
 
You need to scrap your plans for Saturday too H555. He needs to properly mend before you ask his battered hooves to do any serious weight bearing yet or you could be in a lot worse position than you are now.
 
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Thanks for your advice!! The vet has just been - he only did a few lame strides when he first came out of teh stable & was then fine & was totally fine on grass - turned him on a tight circle on the concrete & the vet was really pleased with him cos he wasn't unsound at all, so fingers crossed we've caught it early & he'll be ok!!

I've put him in a deep shavings bed & got him some happy hoof - i'll take him out tomorrow moringing & see how his!!

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Excellent news.
 
Took him out of the stable this morning & he's soooo much better!!!! I'm hoping that 1 - it was caught early & 2 it might have have something to do with him being badly shod before!! Fingers crossed he keeps getting better!!
 
leave him in the stable for a couple of days on bute to mop up the toxins feed him hi fi lite and soaked hay and then when you do turn him out put him on a bare paddock then carry out stripe grazing!
 
Sorry!!! the vet said that he had a very very mild case & that he has flat feet, but that they weren't dropped or anything - that must just be how his feet are. He seems a lot better in himself today which is good.

We had the farrier out in the first place cos when we got him, he had somehow cut into his foot & on sunday, i was a bit worried about it, so thats why the farrier came - to check it out & file it down a bit cos it had formed into a hole - looks a lot better now. Farrier also but some higher shoes on him to lift him up a bit.
 
I have a mare that has had a slight rotation in one front foot, she was stabled on deep bed of shavings as soon as we found her to be a little stiff, vet called, put on bute acp and had x rays, farrier trimmed her and put on lily pads. 8wks on she had another trim and x rays, two weeks on she was very bad worse than when she was first diagnosed, we think this was due to the necessary trim, she has been lying down more but gets up okay and is only just able to put a little weight on foot. The vet is happy that there are no changes to foot, the sole is less convex and there is only a tiny depression on the coronery band from the very first bout. Mare is still on 2 bute a day and 15 acp, can anyone tell me if she will ever come sound and if box rest is so good why is there no improvement after 10 weeks of doing all the right things, small nets of soaked hay 3 times daily and 3small feeds of hi fi with lami light (the correct amount)random handfuls of epsom salts and I have just started her on formula for feet she is only 5 bless her and is such a good patient. If someone could tell me that she will get better and that it will take much longer then I am prepared to wait and do the necessary(not that I would do anything else) I have seen some horrid things on the internet where animals have foundered and had bones coming through their coronery band aswell as their soles and they have got better, my mare looks just fine and yet she is so bloody lame!
 
Hi piss (interesting choice of username!)
I posted on here a few months ago a 'happy lami' story but not sure how to go about finding it now.

In short, my pony had rotation in both front feet, vet came out with xray machine and basically said no hope. One pedal bone was practically on the bottom of the xray. As a last chance I rang the Laminitus Trust which cost £1 per minute and it was the best £30 I have ever spent. They basically said to do what you are doing, but that you have to be patient.

As long as it is only rotation, and not founder (where pedal bone sinks down) there is hope.

Anyway, the Trust explained that where the rotation has occured, it's because the laminae have separated, and you have to wait for the laminae to grow from the top down again before the bone is fully supported as it should be, which is what takes to damn long, and probably explains why there is no improvement yet, but there should be eventually.

I found the plastic shoes (imprints) gave my pony huge relief (cost £110 for two fronts including fitting) but my farrier was so keen to help he came out on a Saturday to fit them. It offered alot of pain relief because the pressure was more evenly distributed across the whole foot and my pony became much more sound, although I then had to reduce pain killers as he started to move about more in the stable, which was not so good!

Mine was initially so bad, I had to put a duvet on the stable floor to help him walk back to his box after the xray (had to move him a few feet to level ground). This all kicked off last May. He was being gently ridden in a manage by the beginning of winter and jumping by this spring. Won local championship on Sunday
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Does that help?
 
Thanks llewelyn, I got a bit frustrated whilst trying to log in and lost my rag and just wrote piss! and of course it accepted it! anyway well done such encouraging news. I know that my farrier is planning to put imprints on asap, I am not sure whether I have done the right thing I have recently put a very small handful of pony nuts in a feed ball once a day, the mare is so greedy she forgets her pain for a few minutes and rolls the ball around with her nose but I wonder now whether I should discourage this, after what you have said about the torn laminae perhaps she should remain still, or would a tiny bit of circulation improve things?
 
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