High temp,dull

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My friends horse was dull on Wed. and didnt eat. She called the vet who thought it was a virus. Had AB injection and seemed to pick up. Vet came next morning and temp still high another injection. Today temp still high and they have admitted her to clinic. She is eating and passing droppings. They are scaning here stomach and doing a stomach tap.(I think its called)
Anyone have any ideas they are worried about peritinitis
 
Mine's not well, very dull compared to normal, didn't want to eat his tea, then kept doing Flehman's response and I saw his mucus membranes were pale.

I took his temp and it was initially high, but then came down, he ate his tea and his gums have gone pink again, so all very odd.

Keep me posted on your friend's.
 
OP as I was reading your post I was thinking 'peritonitis', as what you describe is very like my mare who had peritonitis...if that is the diagnosis it is serious but they can pull through it. She is in the best place. vibes for you all.
 
My mare had something similar last weekend, she hadn't eaten much haylage overnight and didn't eat her breakfast on the Friday morning. The Vet came on Friday morning and took her temperature and said it was on the top side of normal but couldn't find anything wrong. She was turned out as usual but when I brought her in in the afternoon she was very lethargic and stood in her stable with her head nearly on the floor. I called the vet back out and she said her temperature was normal and she gave her some buscopan and a pain killer. She said it could be a virus. She wouldn't eat her tea on Friday night, but ate a small amount of haylage overnight. The vet said to see how she went over the weekend and she thought she may have peritonitus too. She didn't eat her hard feed on Saturday but ate a bucket of carrots and apples and some haylage overnight. On Sunday morning she ate most of her breakfast and from Sunday evening onwards she has been back to normal. It was all very strange, it was like a 48 hour virus and we had another horse who had the same thing the previous weekend. I hope your horse gets better soon.
 
My 17.3 warmblood had the exact same thing January last year. And I mean exactly. It was never diagnosed but he received huge amounts of IV anti-biotics, spent 5 days on isolation at Liphook Equine Hospital (truly wonderful service).....Massively raised blood serum ameloids (over 1,000 at one stage) which showed a huge infection but was never located. Eventually dropped to 300 at which point I was allowed to bring him home and carried on with oral ab's for further 10 days. I believe the BSA level should be in single figures.

Within a week I was on the verge of calling the hospital to find out if my horse had left his manners behind!! There has been no relapse and within a couple more weeks the horse was back in work and rude as ever.

Hope this helps - nothing worse than not knowing what the problem is!
 
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