Tying up, Azetoria experiences/advice....?

In 2003 whilst working at my college one of the horses who had been lunged that morning Tied up.

She had been lunged in just a lunge cavesson and proceeded to canter round and round ( Or so i was told, I was on the yard, not lunging) she came in to the yard a bit sweaty, was sponged down and a sweat rug put on and put in her stable.

I happened to notice as I was sweeping the yard in front of her stable that sweat was dripping from her, called to one of the other grooms and put head collar on horse and went to bring her out.....she couldn't move and was sweating buckets.

Ass. Yard manager rang owner and vets...while we waited for the vets we sponged her around her neck and throat and removed her rather wet rug and replaced it with a dry one. She had an injection of some sort when the vet came, not sure what though sorry!! Although it looked Textbook Azoturia, apparently it wasn't
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but the mare was then fed selenium in her food which is supposed to help.

The other experience I had was an event horse came off the lorry and was lame behind...turned out he'd tied up whilst travelling but could move just was lame.....I know he had time off but I cant remember anything else!!

Hope that helps??!!
 
Tied up after hunting. From what I remember, very hard poos. Muscles on quarters and neck rock hard.

Another pone tied up also after hunting. Didn't want to walk to stable, had to force him as was cold and wet where he wanted to stay. Rock hard quarters and neck. Can't remember the details, but had to have a special diet to ensure it not happen again.
 
Thank you muchly.

Mine tied up last night, whilst out on a ploddy hack and have been doing a bit of research. Vet was called straight away, he was really stiff, completely out of it and dripping. Bloods taken, painkiller given, just awaiting results, so am thinking management change. Normally quite a stressy ned too, so will see how we go...

Thank you again x
 
Mine managed to tie up when he pissed off round the field with me after being on 2 weeks box rest. I have an equissage and this i the only thing its actually ever worked for! I put the equissage on him and within about 20 minutes he was right as rein again, had 2 more days of equissage and rest and then back to normal completely.
 
Hi, hopefully this is just a one-off for your horse. I have a gelding who used to tie up all the time (never at competitions but frequently out on hacks - not great when you can't get them home). Over 18 months we tried everything, selenium supplements, different feeds, grass only diet, monitoring bloods pre & post exercise, muscle biopsy to determine if caused by PSSM, glucose intolerance tests, creatine clearance tests, etc etc. Eventually in desperation he was put on box rest with a diet of just Alfa A (no hay or haylage & paper bedding). After 7 wks his bloods were normal & I started riding him with no problems. Vets decided he must have been allergic to something in the grass (lots of liveries at yard with no problems). He stayed in box for 7 months until I moved yards (much older pasture & not as richly fertilised) and only ever had 2 minor attacks after that. I would recommend trying ERS pellets (D&H I think) as they are designed for horses that tie up. Sorry such a long post but hope its helpful as know what a nightmare it can be when you have a non typical case.
 
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