Tildren infusion update

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I dropped my horse off this morning at the veterinary clinic for his second Tildren infusion and he settled really well eating his net and gazing out of the window and never even gave me a backwards glance, so I left him to it and drove off to work. That was at 8.30am. I had a phone call at 11am to say all had gone well and Bailey was back in his stable gazing out of the window and stuffing his face. Sounds just like my boy!!

I must admit I was a little concerned before the vet rang as he is a bit of a colic prone horse and a side effect of Tildren is colic so it was such a relief to get a phone call to say he was alright. I'm leaving work a bit earlier to go and pick him up and I can't wait to see him. He can't be ridden for two days and has to have light work for five days after but fortunately he can go out in the field tommorow which really helps with the colic situation. The vet says he has greatly improved since starting the Tildren and joint injection treatment and he is very pleased with him. Thank you to Ed my vet and Corner House Veterinary Clinic for their brilliant care.
 
Thanks chumsmum. I hope that if anyone is debating giving their horse this treatment they see this post and decide to go for it, it really does work for the majority of horses.
 
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Thanks chumsmum. I hope that if anyone is debating giving their horse this treatment they see this post and decide to go for it, it really does work for the majority of horses.

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This post was made for me then!!!
I am contemplating giving it to my mare. I am not a regular H&H er so don't know what the OPs horse had the treatment for, I will do a search.

I thought it was daily for 10 days - or have i got that wrong?
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In the early days they used to give Tildren once a day for 10 days,
they now give it in one single infusion

Even newer practise (hot of the press!) is to give half the infusion directly into the nearest available blood supply to the condition being treated for. So for example my vet says for navicular he would put half the drug into the neck and half into a vein running down pastern
 
Here is the link to an interesting fact sheet about Tildren. http://www.georgevetgroup.co.uk/equine/TILDRENfactsheet.pdf

Went back up last night at 9.30pm to check on Bailey after his day at the hospital as he was acting a bit strange when I left him earlier in the evening: not eating, standing at the back of his stable and lying down and generally looking very depressed. When I went back he wouldn't even eat a polo off me which is unheard of so I was going to ring the vet, but I decided to try him with his snackaball which I filled with pony nuts and thank goodness I did as he wolfed those down and then started picking at his net, although he wouldn't eat the polo's. Today my friend emailed me to say he was fine. Now he's had two lots of Tildren I understand more clearly that the main side effects following Tildren are tiredness, loss of condition, depression and drinking and then weeing bucket loads! Hopefully he will be back to normal tonight. x
 
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You describe exactly the same symptoms that my lad had after Tildren. The first time I was so worried I called the vet and he came out to check on him and assured me it was a normal reaction.

The second time he had the same symptoms but not as severe. It is interesting you mention the drinking and weeing, I suspected it may be related. I have never used as much bedding as when he has had Tildren!!
 
Ha ha you are quite correct! I took two barrel loads of wee out of his stable last night! What a nightmare, he was still weeing when I left! He was shuffling around a lot and stamping and stretching out his back foot and kicking out which is unlike him. He occupies the end stable and I tie him outside and loads of horses walk round him every day for the last five years and he's never kicked out, but last night I had to tie him up in the washbox as he kept kicking out (not at another horse but just in pain). His hocks must have been hurting him where he'd had the injection so I gave him some Danillon and he was okay after that. Really weird as he suddenly decided he didn't like mints and wouldn't eat them off me, nor yesterday evening when he had his tildren. By the time I left last night he was wolfing them down him again! I ask you.
 
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