Colitis based laminitis

Not colitis, but gastric ulcers.

My farrier got the best support he could on the feet & I kept the horse on strict box rest (not a step outside the box unless for farrier) with a thick bed to the door. We then fought to stabilize his gut with drugs & diet - I must have seemed crazy tempting & begging a laminitic to eat! It was a race against time, whether we could stabilize his gut before his feet gave out, but we managed it.
 
Thanks, we are icing her feet every day which has helped. After you stabilised the gut how long was it before the horse was sound or able to walk without pain?
 
I can't remember exactly, but still a while. The laminitis did a lot of damage, and he's a heavyweight so there's a lot of horse on top of his feet. We didn't go down the icing route, we felt getting supports taped on was the most critical thing with him because there was a very real danger of his feet collapsing completely. I don't know what the position is with yours though, I assume icing is an attempt to stop toxins reaching the feet?

He's now sound with pads & putty on, but I very much doubt he'd be happy without. There is damage which can only be managed rather than fixed & he's dependent on excellent farriery & close management. His case is further complicated by Cushings though, hopefully if you can get the colitis sorted & feet balanced according to x-rays you'll have fewer issues.
 
She has cushings as well but her acth levels are good thanks to pergolide. We've ordered the putty for her feet. Do you buy your own or does the farrier supply it?
 
My farrier suppies it, it comes in two seperate pots that he mixes together to get the firmness he wants.
 
SAdly mines 6' under. To have him survive the colitis to then go lame and not be able to sort it. Eventually 6 months after the colitis attack he was PTS. The cause of the attack was 'Founderguard' a product designed to protect horses from Laminits
 
Not due to colitis, but a toxic lamintis none the less.

Pony suffered 'an atypical myopathy' and just as he recovered went down with laminitis in all four feet. Unusally, his back feet are far worse than his front. Fronts are rotated, and back have sunk.

On advice from Vet School he had 10 days of ACP injections three times daily (to literally knock him off his feet). Metformin twice daily for a month, and he has aspirin every other day, to be continued for up to six months. He was down to 1/2 a bute twice daily, but now has the first abcess so is back up to one twice daily.

He's been bedded on deep shavings since it happened, has only left the stable for xrays, and having the packing put in his feet. Farrier has done all shoeing/trimming in the stable. Lucky for me he's good friends with the farrier at the Vet School, plus and excellent farrier in himself. He has heart bars on all four feet, and packing from heel to point of heart bar, so no weight at all on the front of the sole.

All hay is soaked for minimum of 16-24hrs, and he gets Hifi Molasses free, and molass free Speedibeet, plus salt, magnesium and a laminitis supplement. He also wear Bioflow boots during the day.

Shoes were changed at 6 weeks, and the front feet are doing great. Repeat xrays in next couple of weeks. Feet being trimmed at 5/6 week intervals. All xrays are sent to Vet School, and they have every belief that he'll come right.
 
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