Cavalesse and COPD

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Box_Of_Frogs

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My wonderful equine vets practice have been offered 3 trial packs of Cavalesse. 2 packs are going to be trialled on sweetitch horses and, bless them, they know Sunny's quality of life this coming spring/summer might mean this is his last winter so they have given Sunny the 3rd pack. They are all saints. I've read as much about it as I can find on google but it all seems to be for sweetitch. My vets spoke to the manufacturers and they say brill for COPD too because it stops the cycle of histamine and mucus production. Has anyone had any experience of Cavalesse and COPD? I'm going ahead with it anyway because there are no side effects (it's basically vit B3 which I think is just brewers yeast) and pretty much all other options are exhausted for Sunny (age approx 26 ish, Welsh cob, very very good doer, autoimmune problems with his remaining eye, quality of life far more important than quantity) so I'd try anything if it might give him another comfortable happy retirement years. Thanks.
 
Havent seen it in use as yet! but PLEASE keep us upto date with your results.
Have an old boy that comes to stay for the winter and he has terrible sweet itch and although hes looking perky, we never know whats round the corner!:o and would be glad to see something that might help sufferers.
 
I used Cavaless for my horse which had months of allergic urticaria lumps that we couldn't get rid of. The Cavaless worked well for that.
 
When my horse had chronic COPD last year I tried everything including ventipulmin, inhaler with a spacer (she hated this) and finally steroids. Nothing worked. However, she is now on loan as a light hack and her breathing has got better. Sorry to hear your situation boxoffrogs and I know what your going through.
 
I used Cavalesse for my mare who had bad sweetitch. It was very effective, but you do need to start it before the midges appear, so start early and make sure you feed it as per the instruction, ie syringe into his mouth, or onto a treat, if you squirt it into a bucket of feed it is not effective. I have no idea about the COPD issue, but it has to be said my horse had a slight COPD problem at that time too and it did go, but I assumed it was for other reasons.
 
What total legends your vets are! Hope it works well for your chap!

Do you have a link to info on what it is and what it does? I wasn't aware that it was similar to brewers yeast and wouldn't mind a read about it!

Loads of luck, keep us posted!
 
I'm picking the pack + literature up from vets Friday. Sunny's horrendous pollen allergy starts the same time as the hawthorn and other tree pollens start, usually end of May. So I'm going to start him on Cavalesse early April. Will post whether it helps because if it does, there's potentially thousands and thousands of COPD (and sweet itch) horses out there who could also be helped. Thanks all.
 
Ooh I too would be interested in this. Can not find any research done on it for COPD, only sweet itch. I too have a horse that has we think rape seed allergy and now a secondary dust allergy. She had not had a problem until I moved areas and now has summers off work, but not needing medication. It would be great if it did work, to enable her to keep in light work during the time. B_o_F's do you know if it is palatable as she can be fussy and does not like things being syringed!

Keep us updated. Thanks
 
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