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Internal Medicine Mobile Services
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Case #1: Horse is brought into the clinic to be scoped for stomach ulcers We did not find ulcers but we did find.....what are these?
These are bots! Bots are parasites that lay eggs in the horses stomach and feed on the lining for months! This is the reason that we deworm our horses regularly with Ivermectin or Quest!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case 2: Horse starts to have an unusual "rotting" smell from his nose when exhaling. Firstly, we believe it to be his teeth. The horse is 16 years old and at that age it is common to have a chipped/loose tooth that has become infected. Put the speculum on to find he has no loose or infected teeth. The smell is not coming from his mouth. The next step is the upper respiratory scope; to check his throat, guttural pouches, trachea and the esophagus. What we found:
A foreign object in his trachea! At the start, we thought it looked like a piece of shoestring. We tried to grab and pull the object with pinchers that are connected to the scope. After two hours, there was no such luck in retrieving the object but we discovered what it was! This horse was a roarer meaning that his left arytenoid is paralyzed. We came to find out he had had tie back surgery where a suture is inserted into the muscle and cartilage to hold back the arytenoid 9 years ago.
The suture must have broke loose and migrated into his trachea and was now badly infected. This horse was referred to the vet school and underwent surgery to retrieve the suture.
<-------- Follow this horses trachea and the thin line hanging down is his migrated suture!
Now Samson is fully recovered from his surgery and is back in the jumper ring with Jo!!
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Last modified:
12/30/09
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Tillotson Equine
