Uveitis

[clairelouisehorses]

Hi just wondered if anyone here would buy a horse with uveitis, I have been offered a £1200 pony for £100 for my daughter, we know the pony well and he is just what we are looking for but am i taking a risk

 

[Zuzzie]

Sorry, but I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Uveitis is a recurring condition and the other name for it is moon blindness. A friend's mare suffered with it and had to have one eye removed. Are you prepared for massive vet bills?

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

CLH, I wouldn't touch with a barge pole either. The massive reduction in price reflects the massive vet bills you'll be paying, and your insurance wouldn't cover it either. Some cases can be carefully managed with a Guardian face mask but many can't and uveitis is a nightmare condition to deal with. It is a recurring condition which is why it had the old name of moon blindness, because it was believed it came and went in synch with the phases of the moon. That's how often it flares up. When in the active phase, the horse may need intensive veterinary care because it is a very painful condition. Usually the horse will need to be kept in a darkened stable until (if) the condition stabilises again. The worst cases often need the eye to be removed and be VERY aware it isn't necessarily confined to just 1 eye. You could end up with a blind horse.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Sorry, but I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Uveitis is a recurring condition and the other name for it is moon blindness. A friend's mare suffered with it and had to have one eye removed. Are you prepared for massive vet bills?

Also called periodic ophthalmia in horses
http://equinecare-and-control.weebly.com/u.html

Having had a mare with moonblindness I would NEVER turn back the clock and not do it again. In the 80;s there was less known no medication so she ended up totaly blind in 1 eye 80% in the other she was sweet loving i could still ride her till her tendon injury . I DID NOT get huge vet bills at all with her.

my mare now also developed uveitis 2 years back , she has a guardian mask. DOES not go in a dark stable it has NOT done any damage yet at i know the signs and put her drops in straight away. touch wood by doing this she has not had a flare up since august.

This is the best way to manage the problem.

Having said that If you are interested in this pony I would find out the extent of any damage to the eye. My mare is one eye only.

You will get people saying DONT TOUCH ETC but if you like this pony and can manage its condition there is no reason why he cant have a fullfilled life.



You need to find out why its so cheap

is it because eyes are to bad or just he cant do what the owners want.

this is me with my mare kaast year with her mask on

http://www.everybodysmile.biz/cgi-bin/public.cgi?form_status=order_image&img=M5515{Cam%201%20pm.jpg&anc=p15_0005_es&ss=101&imgcat=Cam%201%20pm



once you know the symptoms of an attack vets will trust you and give you optimune- chorofenical- and tthe real important one

which dialates the pupil this is the number one first aid check this thread out

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=511725&highlight=uveitis



first thing i would do before you contemplate buying is have a vet check the extent of the uveitis.

horses can adapt well with one eye, but this pony might only be mild , so my vet bills are NOT high as i get in ther the moment she starts shacking her head and squinting thats the key dont be put off my ther neg reaction on this site, there are plenty of us who will give you plenty of us here who will give you the other side of dealing with this

so first ask if u can get a vet to see what stage this is at.

 

[ellie_e]

Depending on what has caused the uveitits in the first place. I bought mine last year who had suffered with it as a youngster through trauma to the eye itself, this is a one off problem and not recurring, however if the horse is prone to episodes of it, i wouldn’t bother. Speak to the vet that has dealt with the horse.

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Leviathan, please be aware that many owners will not be familiar with putting 3 or 4 different drops in their horse's eyes often many times per day. That's how my horse ended up losing his eye. The yard staff (full livery) managed to stab him in his bad eye with the very sharp, pointy end of the tube of medication that was supposed to be helping him (it was superficial keratitis but the principle is the same). When my horse was in hospital to try to stabilise the eye, the horse next door had the same condition but had to be sedated almost to falling-down just to let the vets look at his eye. I know you are explaining the easier side of uveitis but please remember there's a darker side too. And don't forget, no insurance company would cover anything to do with either eye or anything that resulted from the uveitis.

 

[Tamba]

Hi just wondered if anyone here would buy a horse with uveitis, I have been offered a £1200 pony for £100 for my daughter, we know the pony well and he is just what we are looking for but am i taking a risk

Dont dismiss the pony because of this, if the condition has been managed, he might never be bothered with it, my horse had it when I bought him, I was told to keep a mask with uv ray protection on him in th sun, which I did, and hes has 2 attacks of it in 10 years!!!!!!!!
It has not affected him. If you manage the horse in bright light and snow, he should be fine.
Speak to the owner and ask them how he is with it. The owner I bought the horse of, didnt even know he suffered with it, until the vetting.!!!!