Laminitis and double cream

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Anyone heard about using double cream to treat lamintic ponies?
Ive read about it but seems a bizarre thing to use but apparently people have had some success with it.
 
I thought the title was a typo!
After some googling this article has popped up but I have issues with the incredibly small sample size (2!!), lack of control group, etc. It's not something I'd bother with unless I was desperate or unless I can find a bigger study.

My main question would be what biological mechanism does the double cream work on/trigger? Unfortunately I am not a biologist!
@ester is more biology-y than me so might know.
 
It does sound a unlikely thing to do but ive read about it on a facebook group.
Seems like it may have helped some ponies.
 
Yeah I’d be really careful with that, the author of the paper doesn’t even appear to have any veterinary qualifications
 
Does it have some basis in the keto type diets some people use for diabetes?

Seems a bit of a leap for horses though. 2 + 2 = 5 type thinking...
 
To expand on the paper and its publication venue:
I originally assumed that was just a repo for pre-prints/open access articles that have been published in proper journals. However, based on this pricing page, it's clear that this likely is a pay-to-publish type venue. I'd disregard it, personally.
 
My trimmer was ranting over that article earlier in the week! She basically said that if you took a horse off grass and gave it soaked hay then of course it would start to improve - & apparently the double cream test did just that. So hardly a "proper" experiment.
 
SEL said:
My trimmer was ranting over that article earlier in the week! She basically said that if you took a horse off grass and gave it soaked hay then of course it would start to improve - & apparently the double cream test did just that. So hardly a "proper" experiment.
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Exactly SEL so many people rave about all these products/ideas but when its done in conjunction with everything else management/diet wise why cant they see its the management/diet that's made the difference not the bloody double cream - big sighhhhhhhhhhhh
 
bubsqueaks said:
Exactly SEL so many people rave about all these products/ideas but when its done in conjunction with everything else management/diet wise why cant they see its the management/diet that's made the difference not the bloody double cream - big sighhhhhhhhhhhh
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All I could think of when she was telling me was my two horses picking strawberries out of a pot with their cream......:p
 
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