lesser known causes of laminitis

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Hi, I am researching lesser known causes of laminitis. Has anyone got any experience of laminitis caused by stress, drugs, frost, cushings or retained placenta in a brood mare? Thanks.
 
I know two horses that are relevant, neither belonging to me.

One had it as a symptom of cushings, the other was from a dectomax injection for mites.
 
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I know two horses that are relevant, neither belonging to me.

One had it as a symptom of cushings, the other was from a dectomax injection for mites.

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You're joking?? My friend's horse nearly died from lami last year (stress- and fertiliser-related) and she was thinking of getting the mites injection as she has a particularly bad time with them (very thickly hairy cob!) I've not heard of there being an increased risk of lami from it though?!
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We had a cushings pony get lami, and also one pony for whom the vet through the cause was an excess of carrots (over keen small children feeding without YM authorization!)
 
I was informed of the case by a friend of mine who is a small animal vet. I was livid since Monty had been given the injection and I had not been made aware of the risk! Apparantly people are not often informed which is pretty shoddy!
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have had one with cushings induced laminitis and one with frost induced laminitis...... also recently bought a horse with laminitis induced by being left for 6 months with the same set of shoes on
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Needless to say he was shod within 12 hours of me buying him.
 
i know a horse that got lami from cushings and was in a very bad way! it was touch and go for a while! but hes fully recovered now! he also had it from concusion from roads
 
Have got a Cushings pony who has suffered several bouts of laminitis. But its a bit of a chicken and egg situation in her case, she had her first lami attack a few years before the Cushings symptoms started showing and it was diagnosed.
 
I had a pony get it from getting a back injury.

of course you will already know of steroid induced and foaling induced.
 
had two old cushings ponies both lost through laminitis and my competition horse had regular bouts of laminitis caused from liver problems and stress.

Years ago the whole yard went down with flu they all recovered but the three old horses also suffered with laminitis at the same time.
 
I have one who got stress related laminitis twice while on box rest for other ailments. I have also had two old boys who both developed cushings related laminitis, one on Boxing day!
 
A couple of years ago my OH's mare was being confined, due to a rear leg injury, a horse from the next field broke through the post and rail fence into her enclosure and brought on a bout of stress induced lami which was so severe that the farrier we had at the time came close to advising us to have her PTS (he told me afterwards).

Happy ending, the superb work of our farrier and expert diagnosis, treatment and advice from our vet means she made a full recover and is still going strong with years left in her yet (she's 16).
 
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