How do I tell my vet he was wrong?

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I posted a couple of weeks ago about my horses noisy breathing and drop in performance. To cut a long story short, the vet came out, and scoped her, took blood and a swab from her trachia. He found a slight infection in her trachia and after treatment of powder and liquid medicine and £500 later she was only slightly improved. I asked at the outset if it could be an allergy and he said NO!. Anyway several posts on here about which antihistamines to try and I put her on 12 Citirizine a day. Guess What?? she is 100% better. Now luckily I have her insured and only have to pay the first £100 of the bill, but I want (As I am paying now anyway) to get some antihistamines from the vet on my insurance as part of the same claim. My question!

How do I ask the vet for this, as he stated very firmly that It wasn't an allergy?
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I did text him to ask dosage and said I was trying her with an antihistamine, he replied with the dose but said "I wasn't aware of any allergy"
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hi just tell him because he can learn from it and it might help him diagnose in the future, they are not god just vets , and then you can speak to him about the drugs you need good luck x
 
I would just tell him - he probably won't admit to being wring but at least he may go and do some more research and consider it as an option in future.

I have 'discussed' with a vet about how wrong he was before - at the end of the day I am paying customer and they can't not possibly know your horse as well as you do and just because they went to Vet school they do not know everything. They should be continually updating their knowledge and their treatments - but unfortunately like docotrs it doesn't always happen. They maybe vets but they are still human which means they are falible.
 
I think you are about to shoot yourself in the foot. Your vet found an infection, prescribed antibiotics and there was a little improvement. At that point you should have called the vet in again. You are now trying to prove what could quite honestly not only be coincidence but you have self prescribed.

Id leave it well alone.
 
My mare had a similar problem to your's, due to infection she was slightly anaemic and was having difficulty shifting the gunk since, he prescribed a white powder (begins with 's') 6x scoops daily possibly the same as your vet prescribed to help shift the stuff. Her bloods showed she was fighting the infection herself so no antibiotics we needed, but she didn't pick up overnight, these things take time, the airways need time to clear themselves and then to begin to heal and strengthen. I certainly didn't see a quick turnaround but about 10 days later she was not coughing like she had been. She still very occaisionally clears her pipes but is so much better, and this will go as her lungs strengthen. Possibly your mare does have an allergy too which exasperated the situation, but also I would say probably not, she just needed the time that these things take. Since you did not re-visit this with the vet, you have little chance of having your suspicions confirmed. The only other possible way of proving what you believe to be true, is to take her off the Citirizine and see if the problem returns.
 
Thank you everyone.
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I will not get in touch with the vet until I have stopped the Citirizine and seen if the problem returns. If it does then i will see if I can get some on prescription.
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myself and a friend once had horses who caught an infection,
nothing odd in that eh?
except the horse which gave it to ours had been diagnosed as not infectious,
so when ours developed what we both recognised as strangles, and which was confirmed as strangles by lab tests, (my friend 'pinched' a quick swab off the suspect also to test at her works lab) the other horses vet claimed it had......

BACTERIAL FLU = total cobblers there is no such disease, flu is a virus for 1 thing!
the lab tests confirmed the infection was strangles, our vet said it was strangles and if we 2 BHS qualified many years experienced people also can't recognise bloomin strangles who can?
but our vet would not take our part against the other vet - who had said to the other owner it was OK to turn her horse out!!!!!! so we just had to put up n shut up.

how to tell a vet he may be/ is wrong? = VERY CAREFULLY!

bye
 
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