Has anybody successfully used a nebuliser for their IAD horses?

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I've just put up another post about my horse having being diagnosed with inflammatory airway disease and us currently using inhalers. I'm not truly convinced they're making a huge difference. Another option is to try the Flexineb nebuliser although it's very expensive and I'm not sure how much different results would be to with the inhalers.

I wondered if anybody has had any positive experiences with the nebulisers, and possibly whether you found they worked where the inhalers didn't?
 
Years ago when they were quite new and came with a footpump we used one on a riding school pony.
We rapidly borrowed the YO daughter's electric version ;).

It definitely seemed to help/be worth the effort even with the foot pump (and excellent calorie burning!) though I cannot remember what was in the vials.
 
I now have a funny mental image of you pumping up the pony and it gradually expanding as you did so! I must be immature.

Thanks for the response though, good to know you thought it helped. I'm sure all the drugs are different nowadays anyway.
 
I've used a babyhaler and inhalers on a pony a few years ago and current pony was diagnosed with RAO or Equine Asthma which seems to be the new name for it in May this year. I opted to go for the flexineb nebuliser and it is much easier to use. Pony in general tolerates it well although he's recently had a bad flare up, is needing it twice a day and is getting slightly fed up. Our vets have only used babyhaler/inhaler before and like the flexineb and think that as the drug is dispensed in wet droplets it may be absorbed better, but no really info on that. We use Colvasone and it works out much cheaper than the inhalers.

My pony was insured and I was able to claim for the nebuliser. With J he hasn't used inhalers but on the nebuliser he went from having a thick snotty nose and coughing a lot at rest to being, apart from a couple of flare ups, to in work albeit not quite at the 100% which the vets expected. This last flare up he isn't quite responding as expected though and as yet we don't know why.
 
carolineb said:
Interested to know symptoms in your horse as mine is suffering a respiratory issue as a response to a low grade virus.
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My 5yo had a cough and snotty nose for at least 3 months after initial virus, exacerbated by moving house and starting his course of vaccinations. .

If that helps at all..

We ended up riding him off grass all summer..

Fiona
 
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