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| infected salivary gland; anyone?? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 14 2007, 12:50 PM (181 Views) | |
| cshmouse | Nov 14 2007, 12:50 PM Post #1 |
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I Visited Candy Mountain and All I Got Was This Lousy Incision
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My broodmare is suffering from an infected salivary gland under the left size of her tongue. It is about the size of a golf ball, full of goo and smells horrible!! She is also slobbering all over. There is no evidence of trauma. Furthermore, she colicked about 3 wks ago. I assume the 2 are related. Right now we have her on antibiotics and bannimin for the pain, but she is still not drinking as much as I would like. It is very painful for her to swallow. I have tried flavouring the water, warming it and I am currently squirting into her mouth 40 ml's at a time. There is not much else we can do. Has anyone ever had to deal with this before?? She is eating a bit of hay and her stools are still loose. I did see her take a few trips to the water trough this morning. She has only been on the antibiotics 24 hrs. I just have a bad feeling about this.
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| goponies | Dec 3 2007, 03:13 PM Post #2 |
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well we're dealing with something very similar here. My equine dentist came 10 days ago and 4 days later, one of the geldings came up with a high fever, wasn't eating or drinking. Also there were no gut sounds. When the vet came he put him on penicillin and gave him some banamine, also tubed him and gave him mineral oil, anti-gas and water. The vet came back the enxt day and did the same treatment. The horse only started drinking on the 3rd day... Now this horse's neighbor came down with the same thing this weekend. However, this guy hasn't been tubed as he's still passing manure and still has gut sounds. I've been giving him some mineral oil by mouth to help his digestive tract. The 1st time I did this (yesterday) when I removed the seringe from his mouth, it was full of pus. The vet hadn't seen that in either of my horses. The amount of pus seems a little less today but my boy is still not drinking. Tried: warm water, flavoring it etc. What worked for the first horse was to take him for a walk, also letting him graze on some grass, made him thirsty. The second one still is not drinking, but his stools are soft and he has gut sounds. I soak his hay for up to an hour, that way he's getting some liquid in him. I check him often, do the pinch test to check if he's not dehydrtated, also check capillary refill. So far so good. You can try giving your horse a soupy mash if she'll take it. You may have to experiment with warm or cold. Other than that good luck!
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