Colic

[StephBiscuit]

I'm not sure whether this is on the right board or not but I am doing an assignment about colic and if your horse/pony has ever had colic:
When/where did you find them?
What the horses symptoms were?
What treatment the horse had?
Thanks for your help from Steph.

 

[CrazyHippo1]

My horse had sand colic,

Was riding her and she was very off, behind the leg and really not moving forwards. Took her back to the yard and put her in her stable and she immediately laid down, she never lies down so immediately alarm bells started to ring. Gave her some feed which she ate but then laid down straight away after. She was passing droppings but it was liquid and coming out almost horizontally. She wasnt rolling but she was looking at her stomach area a lot

Phoned the vet who told us to keep and eye on her, but at 10pm that evening my YO heard noise and my mare had got cast in the stable. We phoned the vet who referred us to nearby equine hospital (Rossdales, Newmarket). There they found impaction in the gut. Luckily they didn't have to operate although she had to stay in the 'intensive care' area for almost a week having Sand Out (as well as something else, sorry can't remember the name!).

She returned home as was able to come back into work very quickly, but stayed on the Equine America supplement Sand Out for around 3months afterwards.

 

[jac47]

my horse had a twisted gut we found him in the field. It was a very wet wind horrible day. He was sweating and very distressed. He kept collapsing, rolling and thrashing about. He was in a lot of pain. i called the vet who examined him and gave him some relaxants and pain killers. He said to leave him for around an hour to see if they made any difference. We had to call him back as our poor horse just got worse. He went down to the Dick Vet in Edinburgh and had surgery they took 10ft out of his large intestine. Two years on with LOTS of TLC he is back to normal. I found out what caused his colic and it's carrot's and sugar's I must say that it took a year and about six more bouts of the horrible C word to find this out I kept a diary and since I stopped giving him carrots he's had no more COLIC

 

[Irishcobs]

My horse had strangulation colic. I found her at about 4pm. She was lying down in the field shelter, she never does that and was very sweaty. I got her up and walked her out side and she went down again, vet came and couldn't get her up, she had a really low pain threshold. We eventally got her up and down the road to a friends stable.Vet tubed her, said he couldn't hear anything. No gut movement, he give her a painkillerand liquid parrifin and told me to walk her. Vet went and came back at 9.30pm. She wasn't any better, he tubed her again and still there was no gut movement. We decided it was kinder to put her to sleep. We found out later she had a fatty lump that had stranged her intestine. The reason she had no gut movement was because it was dead.

 

[JulieL]

My little pony recently had compaction colic (or at least wot vet thought). Found her in her stable (got down to yard asap after receiving call from YO saying she was not quite herself, which i was so delighted he noticed - thank god for observant caring YO's), after she come in from turnout. Her symptoms were no poo, extremely restless, looking/kicking tummy area, grumpy, sweating and getting up and down and lying flat out. This all took place extremely quickley.

Vet arrived shortly after me as YO called out. Vet took temperature, gave sedative/painkiller etc and decided to drench her (this bit i could not watch and YO stayed with her, which i was extremely grateful for), very touch and go if drench didn't work possible operation (although this also in the balance as she has Equine Metabolic Syndrome, which itself can lead apparently to own complications/poss fatal under sedative). Anyhow, drench did work and my daughter and I slept in stable all night with her (then went home next am and went to work). She pulled through.

Hope this helps on a different angle with your assignment.

Good luck

LB x