Alterative Therapies for Clancy????

[11davisk]

Does anyone know of any alternative therapies or oils that might be helpful for Clancy? If you don't know her story, I'll give you a brief. The vets tell us that she has Protein Losing Enteropathy. (IBD? Inflammatory Bowel Disease)Her intestines are twice the normal thickness and she has not been absorbing protein. The vets don't offer much hope. We have her on steroids but she is pregnant so it is likely that she'll lose the foal. If anyone has any other type of treatment such as natural oils, please post! Thanks!!

 

[spaniel]

Have the vets given you any idea of the cause of the PLE or the exact site ie stomach, colon or whatever. Thees so many diseases and conditions it can relate to that it would be quite hard to find something 'alternative' that might work to give some relief.

You would need to run anything you used on her by the vets too now that she is on steroids as there are so many things that are contraindicated, even herbal and homoeopathic stuff, when steroids are involved.

 

[k9h]

Hiya,

Just tried to send you a PM but you are not accepting them!!

 

[ISHmad]

Hi Clancy, have replied on the other thread about alternative therapies. Hope everything works out okay for your girl and her unborn foal.

 

[_jetset_]

Could you start looking more into her diet?

I don't know whether it is the same for horses as people, but my Grandma suffered from IBS for over 30 years until we pushed her to go to a nutritionist and have some allergy testing done. She has now discovered she is a coeliac and since cutting all wheat and gluten from her diet has been 100% better.

When she was ill she went down to 6 stone!!! She couldn't absorb the things she was eating because of the inflammation in her gut. Now she is trying to lose some weight she has put that much on!!!

It would certainly be my next port of call in your situation, especially as she is losing weight and in foal.

How many months is she in foal?

 

[11davisk]

Thanks for the advice everyone! Anything we try we will definately run by the vets first. Clancy has been in foal for almost 5 months. Clancy picked up a parasite at the place where we bred her. We got rid of the parasite. It was not the cause however because she was losing weight before that. Thanks becki2003!! i will definately check into that as my mother is a nurse and she would know all about that. I'll also contact the vets. Thanks again!!