olop
Well-Known Member
Sorry long post!
My 19 year old gelding back in February was bitten by a tic and came in with a huge abscess. Vet drained it and told me to keep an eye.
In March another abscess came up in a different place and again was drained. A month or so later after that abscess was drained he went “off colour” and the vet was called who ran bloods querying Lyme disease. The results came back as deranged liver function and borderline low albumin of 28. I was advised to put him on milk thistle for 6 weeks and to re-test.
He was retested and the liver function has returned to normal but his albumin has dropped from 28 to 19!
He is currently on Prednisolone 95 tablets a day and waiting for the vet to retest again next week.
My vet is pushing for surgery but horse not insured and I don’t want to put him through surgery.
Apart from him being off colour back when the first blood test was done he is showing absolutely no symptoms. He is eating fine and actually gaining weight (he is still in work as he is putting on so much weight!) and he has normal poops.
Has anyone on here got any experience with this? He has had a normal worm count but abnormal tape worm count in that time, however I have been advised by Westgate labs that I have tested too soon as he was wormed approximately 6 weeks prior to the saliva test which I wasn’t aware could give an abnormal result.
Had anyone had a steroid trial and the results returned to normal? Has anyone had a horse with low albumin which showed no symptoms?
My 19 year old gelding back in February was bitten by a tic and came in with a huge abscess. Vet drained it and told me to keep an eye.
In March another abscess came up in a different place and again was drained. A month or so later after that abscess was drained he went “off colour” and the vet was called who ran bloods querying Lyme disease. The results came back as deranged liver function and borderline low albumin of 28. I was advised to put him on milk thistle for 6 weeks and to re-test.
He was retested and the liver function has returned to normal but his albumin has dropped from 28 to 19!
He is currently on Prednisolone 95 tablets a day and waiting for the vet to retest again next week.
My vet is pushing for surgery but horse not insured and I don’t want to put him through surgery.
Apart from him being off colour back when the first blood test was done he is showing absolutely no symptoms. He is eating fine and actually gaining weight (he is still in work as he is putting on so much weight!) and he has normal poops.
Has anyone on here got any experience with this? He has had a normal worm count but abnormal tape worm count in that time, however I have been advised by Westgate labs that I have tested too soon as he was wormed approximately 6 weeks prior to the saliva test which I wasn’t aware could give an abnormal result.
Had anyone had a steroid trial and the results returned to normal? Has anyone had a horse with low albumin which showed no symptoms?