Am i right in thinking??

[Kelly1982]

That bute is also an anti-inflamatery (sp)??

Horse came in Wednesday with little nick and slightly swollen, nothing to worry about but hosed it anyway.

Yesterday her leg was twice its size, so i hosed it again and gave her a bute in her dinner and breakfast.

It doesn't hurt her and she is not lame she just seems to be one of these horses that swells over the tiniest of things but i thought the bute might help take the swelling down a bit. There is also a bit of heat in it.

 

[CJ1]

I see bute as the neurofen for horses!

 

[AmyMay]

Indeed it is

 

[Kelly1982]

Oh god i did the right thing then *kelly1982 looks very smug*

 

[jacks_mum]

we call it horsey calpol

 

[Dougie]

yummy bute...

ehh i mean yes

 

[Maeshowe]

Don't you wish we could back to the days where every yard had a box of bute in the tack room and any soreness just got a sachet. None of the Prescription Only Medicine rubbish.... and when antibios were the same. You could give them out like sweeties! Did anyone ever overdose their horses? Noooooo

 

[Tia]

As already said yes you are correct......however a word of caution.....if swelling does not go down quickly then you may have an infection on your hands therefore anti-b's may be required.

I do have a huge tub of bute and an even larger tub of broad-spectrum anti-b's in my vet box.

 

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and when antibios were the same. You could give them out like sweeties! Did anyone ever overdose their horses? Noooooo

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and that's why we have big problems with antibiotic resistance - (bang head against brick wall) antibiotics are not bloody sweeties!

 

[Louby]

Hi, my horse was the same nearly 2 weeks ago but the scratch was that small I missed it!! and it was the next morning when I saw the swelling and heat. Probably wouldnt have called the vet but he was arround so he had a look. He gave antibiotics as he suspected infection and my boy was lame. (He wasnt given bute as it could mask things like the infection getting worse as he would appear sound). Two weeks on he is sound but his leg is slightly swollen and hot in the mornings. Seen vet today who said its to do with drainage and not to worry, that it could take another couple of weeks to go down.
Only posting this as although unlikely if theres a cut then theres always a risk of infection and by giving the bute it would be harder to tell if things were getting worse.
Im one of those unlucky people though and Im sure your horse will be fine.

 

[GTs]

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and when antibios were the same. You could give them out like sweeties! Did anyone ever overdose their horses? Noooooo

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and that's why we have big problems with antibiotic resistance - (bang head against brick wall) antibiotics are not bloody sweeties!

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Do not worry I hear an OD of barbiturate generally solves the problem of infection in antibiotic resistant horses.

 

[Fiona]

I would love to be able not to give my TB antibiotics. However she is quite accident prone and has had a few self inflicted cuts out in the field, one of which necessitated emergency visit to vet with cellulitis, and in general she seems to be prone to a-cuts/punctures and b-resultant infection. My welshie by comparison has never had antibiotics in 18 years of owning him. I know which situation I would rather have, but if cut is infected (no matter how quickly it is spotted and how wel it is cleaned) what else can be done apart from give antibiotics.
Someone needs to come up with some new ones, think I read there had not been a new antibiotic developed for 20 years.
Fiona

 

[Tia]

.....and that is why we, in North America, are having problems with Penicillin! Penicillin is available in any tack/feed shop along with needles/syringes. People have free access to these and will give it willy-nilly to their horses with no structure to it......


....there will always be foolish people who do not understand how anti-b's work regardless how they are regulated.

 

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I would love to be able not to give my TB antibiotics. However she is quite accident prone and has had a few self inflicted cuts out in the field, one of which necessitated emergency visit to vet with cellulitis, and in general she seems to be prone to a-cuts/punctures and b-resultant infection. My welshie by comparison has never had antibiotics in 18 years of owning him. I know which situation I would rather have, but if cut is infected (no matter how quickly it is spotted and how wel it is cleaned) what else can be done apart from give antibiotics.
Someone needs to come up with some new ones, think I read there had not been a new antibiotic developed for 20 years.
Fiona

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nothing wrong with giving antibiotics when they are needed at all - that's what they are there for. they are not there to be handed round like sweeties and just give a day or two whenever a tiny scratch appears. if given you need to give 5-7 days at least and then resistance is not such a problem. it's the people who have a stash of sachets and give one or two whenever they feel like it or are making a problem.

and there are plenty of antibiotics that work - we dont really need more - our pharmacy at work is full of all sorts of different ones. we just need to target our treatment properly and use them rationally.