horse with damage due to heavy worm burden

yes my boss has just brought home a baby from the clinic today that's had to have fluids intravenously, she was wormed on Friday with strongid and on Saturday he found masses of adult round worms in their stables, I don't work weekends but I was still finding them on Monday
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some were 30 cms long, totally gross. All the horses are on a worming program babies included they get dung samples taken and were wormed with equarell at about 4 weeks then every six weeks later but got Equimax in September for tape as well but the last sample showed roundworm presence not that high really, about 100 - 175 eggs so it seems they developed a resistance to ivermectin and it was the pyratel that killed them off.He has contacted Virbac to let them know theres resistance at the farm. Feilds get rotated and harrowed in the summer when its hot and dry. Looked it up and found this article ivermectin did its work on the redworm though as no eggs seen in any of the samples taken but seems its real important to rotate the

Seems its becoming a problem globally, so all the more reason to take those samples, I get asked to mix up poop piles for a better reading rather than from just one poop.

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/2/S2/S8

baby has been really poorly off her food, not drinking still passing dung though so vets happy theres no impactation but obviously still worried about her overall condition, shes had antibiotics and anti inflamatories but confident there will be no permanent dammage cos she's so young.

Think he lost a foal once which is why he is extra vigilent with the dung samples.
 
Thanks for posting the link, very interesting.

We were talking to a client this week whose foal seemed to be resistant to ivermectin and still showed ascarid eggs in the worm count, despite being wormed.

Gill, Westgate Labs
 
Oh no Tikino poor baby fingers crossed for you that baby pulls through!

Had he been wormed at all? how often and with what?

@ Gill was speaking to my bosses other half today........ the babies with the serious round worm burden had a dung sample taken before they were wormed with the pyrantel and have been emailed to her today, they have come back negative in three of the foals... yet they all had masses of dead ones after the worming. Seems to be that dung samples are very unreliable
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very worrying really. First resistance to Ivermectin and now false readings in dung samples.
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Baby is a bit brighter today picking at haylage and nibbled at breakfast, she has been drinking a bit more today but not much. The problem now is as she ingests more theres the fear that there might be impactation of dead roundworm as she's starting to show more colllicy signs. I've been told to be on standby in case she needs to be taken to the clinic again tomorow. Poor baby.
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Hi questionf4u, the horse is question is a 12 year old home bred who was on a very strict worming regime, however he was away on loan for 2 years with a so call very close friend and when i got him back we was very poor and then took quite ill has now been in the vets 2 weeks and has know also developed gastric ulcers. thanks for asking
 
you must be very upset to have confided him with someone that neglected him that way
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heres hoping with TLC he makes a full recovery. I take omeprazole for a gastric ulcer which is the same stuff in gastorgaurd the ulcer has healed but i have to watch my diet, stress and fatty foods can make it flare up from time to time but very rarely, for horses they need low starch high fibre diets little and often. Hope you get him home soon.
 
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