U.V.Itis (Moon Blindess)

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Hi. Has anyone had experience of this? My boy's eye became inflamed on Saturday so I called the vet out and he did the usual antibiotics / cream etc and took a photo of the Cyst above the eye (wall eye).

The iris was like a slit a pencil would draw on a piece of paper and the lump was quite pronounced.

He has had his 4 days of cream and bute etc and the eye looks, to the naked eye haha, back to normal. The vet is coming out to have another look tomorrow (at great expense, next battle is the insurance claim if worthwhile) so I am after thoughts and experiences please?

Thanks for your time x
 
My first mare had moon blindness went virtually blind not much help in those days

my mare i have now also has moon blindness more help on this website.

I have to watch for the warning signs then get the atropine in asap and use the other meds too, she wears a guardian mask when in bright light

http://equinecare-and-control.weebly.com/u.html.

Important thing is act fast when she or he has the warning signs the quicker you act the less damage to the eye.

Its been recurrent ulcers that trigger hers.
 
My horse had flare ups every 6 or so weeks for over 4 years. I only used steroid eye drops from the vet and bute. The vet said my prompt treatment had saved my horses sight, only problem was he had a small cataract which is secondary to Uevitis. I also had a guardian mask but it didn't stop the flare ups unfortunately, sadly I lost him last year to something unrelated.
 
I lost one to this but a friends recovered and never suffered again and is now 19.
So I hope all goes well the mask sounds good, mine could not stand any wind at all he ended up having a miserable time I hope all goes well for my friends experiance shows it can.
 
Box_Of_Frogs said:
It's uveitis hun. Hard to keep under control and I believe it can spread to the other eye. Lots of info on the Forum if you search "uveitis". Good luck x
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Uveitis- MoonBlindness-"periodic opthalmia
 one and the same
OP you can search moonblindess too

http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/new-hope-moon-blindness
http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=8815
http://www.horsemanmagazine.com/2008/09/moon-blindness/
http://www.forloveofthehorse.com/articles/uveitis.php
http://www.alternativevet.org/Moonblindness WS058-07.pdf
http://www.wiwfarm.com/moon.htm
http://www.ecmagazine.net/Vol7_3/MoonBlindness.htm
 
Supplementing with additional Vitamin A for a period of time should help improve the condition. You can generally buy the injectable Vitamin A at a farm store, just give the dose orally instead of injecting. Evidently also works well for horses that are prone to mudfever, greasy heel and rain scald.
 
hi everyone and thanks

yes i got the spelling right after i posted and did a search

it has not been diagnosed as moon blindness yet, this could be tonight, so hoping it is just a cyst as initially thought on saturday so please

keep everything crossed it is just a cyst and conjuncti of some sort as i am worrying myself silly now

thanks, will check out all the posts and update once the vet comes back tonight
 
hi. update

everything is looking very positive for it not being recurrent uveitus.

slight cataract but very old and vet thinks generic (i wrote genital then!)

eye in top health no marks no cloud and he is very confident it was a one off possibly from a trauma to the eye so it is a case of watch this space.

he said i acted so quickly that the following day it "appeared" back to normal so fingers crossed.

time will tell now i guess.
 
TChamp said:
hi. update

everything is looking very positive for it not being recurrent uveitus.

slight cataract but very old and vet thinks generic (i wrote genital then!)

eye in top health no marks no cloud and he is very confident it was a one off possibly from a trauma to the eye so it is a case of watch this space.

he said i acted so quickly that the following day it "appeared" back to normal so fingers crossed.

time will tell now i guess.
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With eyes, this is key. Absolutely.
 
When my horse had an attack of this the vet carried out serum therapy (serum extracted from his blood which was then given back into the eye as drops every 2 hours).

It was brilliant and saved the eye. After that I bought a Guardian mask- they look a bit odd but they are fabulous.
 
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