Perotonitus any one had experience, Shipley currently in Rossdales

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Has anyone had any experience of this my poor little boy was rushed in on saturday afternoon. He seems to be doing really well and not operated yet but this has not been ruled out and just wondered if anyone has experienced this and what happened?

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So sorry to hear your boy has peritonitis. My mare who is now 13 had this as a yearling following a perforated ulcer (believed to be caused by Finadyne). It was touch and go for a while but we managed, against the odds to help with Cemetidine, Gaviscon, pro and prebiotics and a range of stuff from the health food shop. Diet was also an important factor in her recovery.
I do hope your horse makes a speedy recovery, huge vibes for you both x
 
Thank you so much,

Rossdales are bering fantastic and he is doing really well against the odds so just keepnig everything crossed and hope he pulls through. He has started eating again and even been in a field for a bit so everything is looking positive we get the culture results tommorrow.
 
My boy who is 4 had this earlier in the year. he presented colic signs but when he was sedated to carry out a rectal. his breathing went beserk, very erratic and eyes rolling. Vet injected him with a hughe shot of steroid and after 20 minutes his breathing slowed down. Vet said in 13 years had never had a reaction like that to sedation.

His temp was 41 and was very very poorly for a number of weeks, he was being injected every day with antibiotics and finadyne. Some days he could hardly stand and was very tucked up and lethargic. He was allowed a little hour or so in the paddock just mooching around. He had bloods taken every 5 days to monitor what was going on.

He unfortunately developed Gastric Ulcers as a result of all the medication he had pumped into him so had 2 scopes and Gastro Guard etc.

The plus side is, he survived and recovered. He was backed in June this year and whilst I maintain him on a high fibre, low starch diet, he is doing well.

Keep my fingers crossed for you
 
Thanks its still early days for us and the vets are still hopefull but can see its a long time for recovery as long as he stays happy I want to give him every chance. I saw him yesterday and he was so happy to see me it was lovely
 
Hi I have posted about this before, so if you have found my thread already you may know my 5 YO G had peritonitis in July - temp raged at 41 for several days and they struggled to deal wtih it, he was hospitalised for 3 weeks they managed to get his temp under control and he recovered - he was pretty poorly though.

He too developed gastric ulcers - didnt eat for 6 days - muscle wastage, weight loss- looked ill. He was very lucky to survive - my vets bill was £6.5k - I told them to do what was needed to try to save him. l think some of the daily injections were £100 alone.

He has fully recovered, had gastro guard and pronutrin for the ulcers and not that he had ulcers prior to this but he now has a diet to prevent any further ulcers.

I had pre exisitng ulcers, tumour, worms causes ruled out so we will never know why he got it. Needless to say I regulary monitor his temp now so that if it re-occured I could catch it early.

He is now out jumping BS. Best of luck with your horse fingers crossed.
 
No I could not find any posts - may be my IT skills there, off to look now. They have scanned twice now and cant see any courses and dont thin we will ever find it unless they have to operate. Ship whilst has had raging temp etc he has always eaten hay apart from when they would not let him eat. He s very poorly and when i saw him yesterday whilst still very ill he was amazing compaired to saturday when he arrived. The do believe er caught it very quickly that said we have still nearly lost him. The WBC is at 250 in the tap sample so dangerously high the next one was 200 and we are hoping the next will go down further. Its just so horrible to see him and scary how quickly it all came on
 
If you google "peritonitis horses" or soemthing along those lines I think posts from this forum come up. I did at the time. There are people on here who have been lucky and others not so.

The white blood count in my horse took a while to drop down but it is good yours is dropping. As soon as my horse is poorly with anything he stops eating so it is good at least your horses has stayed eating as it may mean the risk of developing gastric ulcers is less.

My horse too started with colic like symptoms and a heavy breathing race - no sewating but v tucked up and wobly behind.

I know from on here people have reported further bouts so I have been keeping a close eye on my horse.
 
RW1 said:
Hi I have posted about this before, so if you have found my thread already you may know my 5 YO G had peritonitis in July - temp raged at 41 for several days and they struggled to deal wtih it, he was hospitalised for 3 weeks they managed to get his temp under control and he recovered - he was pretty poorly though.

He too developed gastric ulcers - didnt eat for 6 days - muscle wastage, weight loss- looked ill. He was very lucky to survive - my vets bill was £6.5k - I told them to do what was needed to try to save him. l think some of the daily injections were £100 alone.

He has fully recovered, had gastro guard and pronutrin for the ulcers and not that he had ulcers prior to this but he now has a diet to prevent any further ulcers.

I had pre exisitng ulcers, tumour, worms causes ruled out so we will never know why he got it. Needless to say I regulary monitor his temp now so that if it re-occured I could catch it early.


He is now out jumping BS. Best of luck with your horse fingers crossed.
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Ditto this, we spent 5.5K in 10 weeks. Very expensive game but well worth giving him everything we could as happened so quickly
 
NELSON11 said:
My boy who is 4 had this earlier in the year. he presented colic signs but when he was sedated to carry out a rectal. his breathing went beserk, very erratic and eyes rolling. Vet injected him with a hughe shot of steroid and after 20 minutes his breathing slowed down. Vet said in 13 years had never had a reaction like that to sedation.

Exactly the same happened to my lad when he was sedated, the vet said it was because he had a temperature of 41. Apparantely this can happen if they have a high temp & are sedated.

When they did the perotinal tap the count should have been under 4 but his was 857!!

He was in intensive care for 10 days on antibiotic drips & metacam. Have no idea what caused it.

Really hope you have the same happy ending. We took our lad out today & boy did it feel good after all he has been through, he thoroughly enjoyed himself.



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I don't know about perititonitis but our 6 month old foal come home from Rossdales after colic surgery a week ago today. They couldn't save her mum earlier this year but did everything they could. So I'd like to wish you the best of luck and we hope that your horse pulls through, its still early days for our little one, but although we don't know the cause, they did look after her well up there and I know its not much help, they know their stuff. Go as often as you can and see him.
Hope everything comes right
L
xx
 
iconique said:
I don't know about perititonitis but our 6 month old foal come home from Rossdales after colic surgery a week ago today. They couldn't save her mum earlier this year but did everything they could. So I'd like to wish you the best of luck and we hope that your horse pulls through, its still early days for our little one, but although we don't know the cause, they did look after her well up there and I know its not much help, they know their stuff. Go as often as you can and see him.
Hope everything comes right
L
xx
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Also hope your little foal will be ok
xx
 
My horse had it a few years ago.

Like many of the others he was sedated and had a very bad reaction to it. And had a temp of 41.

He was very poorly for a while and wouldn't eat or drink but thankfully he got better.

Hope everything goes well for your horse. Any questions just ask.
 
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