Strepto zoo/ False strangles

lucy16

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Has anyone had any experience with this?
My boy keeps getting one abcess on his throat, no discharge, no temperature, no cough and he looks like a healthy horse.

Have had it lanced the last time he had it but now he's got a cough - not related, I think - and the abcess has come back again!

Vet has given me 2 weeks worth of antibiotics this time- does this seem too much??

And is this abcess likely to keep coming back??
Is there anything else I can do??
Unfortunately horse is not insured so would prefer to avoid expensive tests....
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Hi lucy16

Just to say a horse that has strangles does not need to show any other signs ie not look unhealthy - we had an outbreak earlier this year and some of the horses that took it you would never had known they had anything wrong with them.

The Animal Health Trust website is really good and worth a look
 
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