Gastric Impaction

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My donkey was fine on Saturday but yesterday turned out in morning but not eaten hay or anything by the evening, she is fussy and on prascend so thought fussy bag. This morning hay still there and not eaten her prascend in her fibergy which she always does.



Got one of my gut feelings and voices in head said * WHEN IN DOUBT CALL THE VET * This I did and bloods later came back high heart rate and temperature, and liver high and comment from vet TAKE HER UP RVC NOW!!!!.


so far they found with gastroscope >>Gastric Impaction this is a new one to me as delt with most other types of colic but this. Anyone else gone through this ???
 
HGA-12 said:
Well donkey


My donkey was fine on Saturday but yesterday turned out in morning but not eaten hay or anything by the evening, she is fussy and on prascend so thought fussy bag. This morning hay still there and not eaten her prascend in her fibergy which she always does.



Got one of my gut feelings and voices in head said * WHEN IN DOUBT CALL THE VET * This I did and bloods later came back high heart rate and temperature, and liver high and comment from vet TAKE HER UP RVC NOW!!!!.


so far they found with gastroscope >>Gastric Impaction this is a new one to me as delt with most other types of colic but this. Anyone else gone through this ???
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Youve done pretty well to have worked with horses as long as you have and never had an impaction to deal with. Complexity depends where the impaction is, and what has caused it. Spikes colic last year was a caecal impaction - complicated because the caecum is shaped like a kong toy, which hangs off the intestine, so food can back up in there, and be very difficult to shift, as it was in Spikes case - we were pushing fluids through him three times dauily at home for 5 days, then he went to Liphook, and it took them a further 3 days to get things moving. An impaction caused by narrowing of the intestines isnt a good thing at all, but just being bunged up with no clinical reason isn't so bad, as long as they can shift it, Have they given any idea what the cause is?
 
Auslander said:
Youve done pretty well to have worked with horses as long as you have and never had an impaction to deal with. Complexity depends where the impaction is, and what has caused it. Spikes colic last year was a caecal impaction - complicated because the caecum is shaped like a kong toy, which hangs off the intestine, so food can back up in there, and be very difficult to shift, as it was in Spikes case - we were pushing fluids through him three times dauily at home for 5 days, then he went to Liphook, and it took them a further 3 days to get things moving. An impaction caused by narrowing of the intestines isnt a good thing at all, but just being bunged up with no clinical reason isn't so bad, as long as they can shift it, Have they given any idea what the cause is?
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Not yet, I have delt with impaction but not gastric one ( or vets never said gastric ) just impaction to me so might have been but they never specifically said gastric. just my mare had impaction colic

As yet no cause but there is a small from her mouth which \i noticed too and her teeth done Jan so something might have happened since then.
 
HGA-12 said:
Not yet, I have delt with impaction but not gastric one ( or vets never said gastric ) just impaction to me so might have been but they never specifically said gastric. just my mare had impaction colic

As yet no cause but there is a small from her mouth which \i noticed too and her teeth done Jan so something might have happened since then.
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Gastric just means the digestive system in general - so hopefully they'll be able to find out a bit more while shes in there.

Unlikely to be related to teeth tbh - impaction is a simple (though often complicated by other factors) blockage
 
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Auslander said:
Gastric just means the digestive system in general - so hopefully they'll be able to find out a bit more while shes in there.

Unlikely to be related to teeth tbh - impaction is a simple (though often complicated by other factors) blockage
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she is 26 Yo I think what they mean by smell is she might have lost a tooth or cracked one so no chewing her food properly as she does dribble a bit since she was stung in the mouth too. Will find out more in due course - so worried for my girl, did not think I would be up the RVC so soon after taking livery there with herpes 5...... 3 weeks a go
 
One of my ginger boys had impacted colic a few years ago. Taken up to NEH where he was operated on but fortunately did not need a resection and he made a full recovery and was back out eventing the following season. He was only 6 at the time which was one of the reasons for deciding to have the operation.
 
I'm fairly sure if they diagnosed it from the gastroscope then the impaction will be in her stomach - that's what the term gastric describes, not the whole tract. I think it's fairly uncommon in horses so sounds like your girl is very unlucky! Here is a web page on it which might offer some useful information: http://en.wikivet.net/Gastric_Impaction_-_Horse
 
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