Horses with Hernias

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StellaArtois

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Would any of you buy a horse with a hernia? Has anyone had any problems with them? A friend has just had a horse vetted and a hernia was noted down so now the insurance company wont insure that part or any related items. Vet said it shouldnt cause a problem but what do you guys think. Anyone had surgery to fix. the hernia any ideas on cost?
Any help advice would be great
 
You can have surgery but beware as the surgery in itself can hold risks for the future. the fact that they have to compromise the abdominal wall means that adhesions can form and cause the intestines to adhere to the wall or/and themselves and this can have terrible consequences (see my other post about my mare who had to have surgery yesterday)
I should imagine as well that the hernia itself could heal and cause adhesions. Apparently it isn't very common for their to be the problems of adhesions. It depends if your friend is prepared to take the possible risk of financial and emotional heart ache unless she really has to.
I'm not sure of the implications of an unoperated hernia itself but I should imagine there is the possibility of it becoming strangulated and then surgery is a definate and potentially costly procedure. Normal colic surgery to untwist a gut but not remove any cost me 2.5k a few years back so I can only imagine what my latest 4 hour op and 8ft of small intestine removal has cost me so far!
I am possibly being doom and gloom here and there are plenty of people who would have had henia ops without complications
 
My old horse Summer had a hernia.Hers was caused by her having been previously put to a much larger stallion and having a foal that was too big.Hers was too large to be operated on and never caused her any real problems although she did have to have regular physio due to back problems which we believe was a direct result of how large the hernia was and the fact that it hung down just in front of her udders and the strain was felt through her back. The main thing you have to be aware of with a hernia is that the horse is more likely to colic and more prone to a twisted gut,and if the insurance company want to put the hernia down as an exclusion it would be worth asking whether any colic would be covered by them or put down to the fact the horse has a hernia and is a complication because of it.
 
Oh heavens, I just read this, my post further up is about this, I have no idea how he has done it.
 
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