Sedalin

[Dizzle]

How do you get hold of it?

That sounds a bit dodgy actually, my friend needs to get some to get her horses teeth done, can she just call her vets and order some, or does the vet need to come out at the same time as the dentist to admister it, or would the vet ask to do the teeth themselves?

Which is better sedalin or ACP or are they the same thing?

Thanking you!

 

[ilovecobs]

only tried sedalin myself and i wouldnt waste my money again, i gave my mare the full tube and it didnt even touch her. You can get sedalin from your vet

 

[Gluttonforpunishment]

If the horse needs sedating to have his/her teeth done you have two options, call the vet in to sedate and do teeth or, get vet in to sedate and let EDT do the teeth.

My vet happens to be very good at doing teeth so I'm happy to have them done every year at the same time as their annual vaccs. If however, your vet isn't great with teeth then stick with the EDT.

Bottom line though is you MUST have a vet to sedate a horse.

 

[abbieandfiona]

Sedaline from vet they dont need to come out however didnt work for my mare at all with a full tube yet worked well for another one this was for clipping not dentist.

 

[BobbyMondeo]

My horse really reacts to sedalin but some dont. You can ask your vet for it and they will sell it to you, might be worth just having the vet do the teeth and then the horse can be sedated if needs be

 

[Nash2]

It has to be prescribed for by a vet but if you explain it's for dentistry the vet may just let you pick it up - depends on how much you have had to do with them otherwise is expensive if they insist on coming out.

My vet has been told they can't prescribe ACP anymore as sedaline is much safer - same kind of thing tho. It has always worked on mine - it does take a while to get into the system so i'd give it an hour or so before dentist arrives. The more hyper the horse the more extreme an effect it has so give it to a nice calm horse before they realise what's happening.

 

[bj_cardiff]

You need to get your vet to perscribe it. It comes in a tube like a wormer and there's about 4 doses in there for a 16.2 horse, more for smaller horses/ponies. Apparently if you overdose them it doesn't have any extra 'doping' effect..

I brought it for a horse that was 'tricky' to shoe, used it once and he was def sedated but he'd suddenly come round and be silly, but slightly clumbsy at the same time which I thought was more dangerous than when he really played up!

 

[Nash2]

You don't need a vet to administer sedaline - I do it myself all the time. Intra-venous (sp) sedation you would need a vet.

 

[Dizzle]

Not my horse so, I can't really say to friend to reorganise teeth to fit with vacs etc as horse needs teeth done now.

Why does the vet have to administer the sedative? I thought you could just order it for instance if you needed it for clipping or something you wouldn't get a vet out??

 

[BobbyMondeo]

Not my horse so, I can't really say to friend to reorganise teeth to fit with vacs etc as horse needs teeth done now.

Why does the vet have to administer the sedative? I thought you could just order it for instance if you needed it for clipping or something you wouldn't get a vet out??

You dont need the vet to administer the sedalin, they will just prescirbe it for you. But if you want the horse sedated intra-venously then you will need a vet to that obviously

 

[martlin]

You can just buy it from the vets, don't need them to administer it.

 

[JessPickle]

I intitially thought sedalin didn't work for Pickle as the video think of him below his him while on sedalin! haha! however he had been in for months! However the next time I turned him out minus the sedalin he was unbelievably difficult rearing and the like so def does work to a degree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f2-z1NXuAg

 

[Minnies_Mum]

Sedalin is ACP but in gel form- vets have to supply it like this because the tablets are no longer licensed for horses. As long as your vet has seen the horse fairly recently and it doesn't have any underlying health issues that would affect the used of ACP then they will probably let you buy it from them and they you administer it.

Worth remembering that not all horses react to the same extent to Sedalin- some are very quiet (remember it's a tranquiliser, so reduces anxiety, not an actual sedative, which would reduce awareness) but some do not change at all.

If your horse is very difficult, it would be worth getting your vet out to sedate so that a proper job can be done by your dentist and top-ups administered if necessary. There is a new product which is actual sedation in an oral gel, but I don't know very much about it yet, it's literally just come out.

If you go with Sedalin, remember to give it 45 mins- 1 hour before you want to so anything scary to the horse for it to have any chance of working, and the horse should be in a quiet environment, prefereably with no hay/feed, during that time.