GastriSoothe Plus from Metabolic Horse

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Any feedback on the above feed supplement/additive please?

Has anyone used it?
What for? (I know what it's intended for but just interested in the symptoms that people have tried to combat with this product)
Did it have the desired effect/would you recommend it?
Or any suggestions of other similar products that you feel are better/showed better results?

Many thanks:)
 
As it contains Alltechs Yea-Sacc - no idea what else - but from its name I would imagine it is for gastric issues.

Look at Alltech's Lifeforce - it is scientifically proven and researched and developed to work and is approved for all levels of comptetition both in the US and the EU and would work out cheaper per month - contains Yea-Sacc and other approved nutrition technologies.
 
^^Thank you for your replies:)
SlinkyU-I cannot see the ingredients of the Lifeforce anywhere on their website,or any info on the research etc?
The Gastrisoothe Plus ingredients look promising,thank you Amandap.
I've also seen that Progressive Earth list the ingredients (&quantities) in their ProHoof and ProBalance formulas,which have often been recommended on here.
I just wanted to see if anyone had actually used it and found it worked,as I'm happy with what's in it:)
 
The Gastrisoothe is for gastric upset, so suspected ulcers, cribbing etc.
The Pro hoof and pro balance etc. are forage balancers, so contain minerals some amino acids and vitamins etc. Also some yea sac which is helpful to horses guts and digestion.
 
Yes,wondered about the ProBalance being sufficient for the gastric aspect of my boy's needs due to the Yea Sacc being in it (as well as being a good all round balancer too:) )
 
Ah, right. I suppose it depends whether he has any symptoms of gastric upset. If not, the balancers containing yea sacc should be enough or you could add more yea sacc.

Sorry to keep blabbing when I haven't used it. lol

ps. The yea sacc is more to help with hind gut issues than gastric ones.
 
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Yep,vet suspects mild hind gut issues following scope. (Also commented horse has quite slow gut transit.)
Only symptoms are girthiness and some slight grumpiness for rugging. Not cold backed at all and works well. Gastroguard trial made no difference. Ranitidine made no difference.
Fed Safe&Sound,Top Spec balancer,Speedibeet,Micronised Linseed and ad lib haylage. He's not a poor (or good) doer but is not a greedy horse,so try not to over face him.
(I know hay could be better than haylage but want to try a supplement first,before I make a second change,so I can see what makes a difference.)
Maybe he just needs some Dr Green and sunshine-not seen either for what feels like years!!
 
Some costumers of me in France did use it for racehorses.

It did not work wonders but taking blood tests and mane hair analyses of the horses some things have been upside down. The ratio Calcium - Phosphorus, what should be about 2:1 in a horse did show in the bloods and tha hair analyses about 6:1 and sometimes worse.

The supplement seems to work on a high dose of calcium from alfalfa and others as well they did write about pectine.

Calcium does buffer gastric acid, that is right, but at the other hand side we need a certain ratio to phosphourus in the ration for to keept the horse healthy.

Calcium and acid is the same principle like with limestone in the bathroom and descaler (acid). The acid will be neutralized and the limestone will go off.

As well there was a hint to pectine for to cover the stomach mucosa with a protective slime.

But if you feed beetpulp, beetpulp does contain up to 20% of pectine and so you feed and care.
 
Youre wellcome.

Yust reading your thing with the hindgut and the vet. My feeding is allways straight forward and very simple. Does mean I try to use as less ingredients as possible, no matter if happy hacker or derby horse.

First of all it will save money and the controll is much better and with this the reaction of the horse.

Try to feed next to you haylage just beetpulp, you can add on a bit of oil if you want.

With haylage it is not very rare that some horses have some reactions in the gut or also stomach.

But we have to feed what we can get.

Now if you add on a sufficient dose of Yeasacc, I mean the life culture and only the plain yeasacc, the horse will show you within a week a result or response.

I could picture that he is a bit to acidic and this is not really promoting a easy digestion.
 
Thank you:) One of the things I was considering (working from hopefully the most simple solution first!) is giving him yea sacc 1026 (the live stuff). I think I will try him on that first,as it is apparently very beneficial for the hindgut and see how we go from there:)
 
Yip, that`s it. By the way, normaly linseed has to be cooked before you can feed it.
It does contain a bit prussic acid and when you cook it this will go off. With some gut sensible horses it is a good help to cook 200 gramm of linseed and to stir it into the feed.
 
I haven't used it myself but I certainly wouldn't discount using the Gastrisoothe Plus for the 30 day course.
Slippery Elm, Linseed, chinese herbs, yea-sacc and aloe vera sounds just fine to me as a gut cleanse and healer.

It can't do any harm other than to your pocket and it's worth doing a gut cleanse periodically anyway.

I have used UL30REX with good effect
http://www.ronfieldsnutrition.co.uk/horses_UL30REX.htm

If I had a definite ulcer problem then I would do a month course of Egusin (2 week's of the SLH and 2 week's of the 250)

http://www.forageplus.com/forageplusequineulcers.html

I feed Pro Balance + as my balancer but I also buy yea-sacc too - it helps cut down on the poops I have to muck out :D
 
I have used the Gastrisoothe Plus on both my horses - my mare gets it as she was girthy and a bit loose at one point; I have kept her on it for the time being and she is definitely less girthy now. I used it on my gelding for 3 weeks after he came out of training and again had been a bit loose and touchy around the belly. He settled down very quickly so I would use it only if symptoms returned. I have also used the herbal easigut from natural horse supplies, but I prefer the texture of the Gastrisoothe in its linseed base as it is less powdery, more like usual linseed meal, and I think the inclusion of aloe is useful.
 
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