Laminitis and double cream

Sandstone1

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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Yeah I’d be really careful with that, the author of the paper doesn’t even appear to have any veterinary qualifications
 

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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...
 

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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.
 

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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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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.

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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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

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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