UPDATE - nephrosplenic entrapment

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Good news, Bailey is fine. :) The vet told me to do loads of lunging with him, nil by mouth and I had to take him on a 'bumpy' trailer ride! Total nightmare trying to load without food bribe but had to compromise in the end and managed to get him on with a very small handful of pony nuts!!:rolleyes:

The vet came out midday yesterday and did a rectal examination and found the intestine has slipped back into place without the need for further medication, which was just as well really as the drug he wanted to give him; phenylephrine may have caused cardia arythmia that could have brought on a fatal heart attack as Bailey has second degree heart block and he would have been very reluctant to give that to him.

Been there this morning before work and he is screaming for his hay and breakfast! Worrying time and 34 hours without sleep :eek: and I feel like a total zombie but so very very glad its all sorted.

Poor Bailey never wants to look at another lunge line I can tell you, I think if the entrapment hadn't killed him off the lunging would have!
 
Thanks for the update. So good to hear he is better.

Do you know what causes nephrosplenic entrapment? Is there anything any of us can do to reduce the chance of it happening?

Sarah
 
I had a mare many years ago who had nephrosplenic entrapment. She was admitted to Horsepital twice for a week at a time with a few days in between, permanently attached to a drip. So just keep an eye out for any small signs of colic because the first time the vets sent my horse home, I told them she still looked mildly colicy and they didn't believe me. You know your horse best.!
 
flintfootfilly said:
Thanks for the update. So good to hear he is better.

Do you know what causes nephrosplenic entrapment? Is there anything any of us can do to reduce the chance of it happening?

Sarah
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Hi Sarah

The vet said in my horses case it was undoubtedly the flush of grass that we had had. I had been in the Isle Of Wight until the day before on holiday and had not realised the rain in our neck of the woods had been quite so much and of course the grass that had shot up as a result had been too much for my horse.

That and the fact that I had ridden him after a week off (albeit only an 90 minute walk only hack) and had swapped him to dry hay whilst I was away. I had introduced the dry hay on and off for about five days before I left on holiday as I knew changes had to be gradual but the vet said all these things could have contributed, but number one cause was the grass. He said he'd had quite a few cases recently.

He's always been colic prone, but its always been gassy spasomodic colic which was easily treated by 2-3 bute and a walk on the walker for 20 mins. This had been on vets recommendation and I'd done this quite regular over the nine years I've owned him, but this time, it was evident early on that it was much more serious than a case of gassy colic!

I will always wet my hay before feeding now - even if only submerged for a few seconds at least it is wet rather than dry.
 
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