Update on how to get rid of virus post (more advice needed) !!! (also in vets)

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Hi,

Thank you everyone who replied last time I posted.

The horses have now had two weeks off and have just been retested. The good news is that one of them seems to be recovering (the white blood cell ratio is normalising from being close to reversing) and everything else seems to be pretty normal. :D

However, the younger horse (4 yrs old) seems to be getting worse. :(
His ratio was reversing on the previous results but has completely reversed now (lymphocytes are 56.1%, SEGS (neutrophils sp?) are 39.6% and monocytes are 4.3%).

They've been on Echinacea for 2 weeks and we're going to try Levamisol to help stimulate the immune system alongside the echinacea and retest in 2 weeks but otherwise I'm at a complete loss. They're not in any work now and are going out till 3pm, then come in. They're also on as much food as they were when in full work but neither has put on any weight???

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks
 
I didn't see the first post but would suggest a blood booster such as Iron Xcell or Ardmore Equine's Blood Booster. As the system is under so much pressure it will need a tonic as well as the Echinacea
 
Thank you Amage, I am looking into a tonic or vit and min supplement but not entirely sure what would be best to feed alongside the echinacea and his feed as I don't want to cause him problems.

Thank you also AlwaysBroke, I will give him a call tomorrow. Hopefully, we'll sort something out that works.

Any more ideas would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Thanks everyone so far.

Mrs Mozart, yes I have posted this in vets as well as here, thanks, unfortunately I've had no responses in there yet.

Maesfen, thanks for letting me know about that one, I didn't even know it existed so thank you.
 
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