My gelding has been sick basically ever since we bought him 5 months ago.
9 weeks ago we changed vets and drew some more blood and it showed allot of inflammation and high white blood cell count and his liver was elevated. The vet said maybe bastard strangles or pigeon fever went internally.
He also got checked for gastric ulcers and he did have them and so we also had him on gastroguard. He was also put on heavy antibiotics for his inflammation and white blood cell (Vet told me it meant infection) He was on them for about 4 weeks and we took him back to the vet to get him checked and another blood draw to see if it was helping. His inflammation was actually worse along with his white blood cell count and liver elevated. About a month ago he had colic bad (He also had gas colics but nothing this bad) he pulled through and ever since then he has a ton of energy actually acting like a horse before he looked lethargic all the time. And has started to pack on his weight. Anyway so today he went back into the vet and the vet drew his blood again.
The inflammation was all gone, the white blood cell was normal, but his liver was elevated a little still.
The vet said to stop the antibiotics and there was no real treatment for the liver problem.
I was reading online and it said sometimes a liver can show its elevated and it was common.
How many of experiance in bastard strangles? Will his liver re-grow no that there is not infection or?
I asked the vet and he said that is possible but he may also just have liver problems. Oh also I should add his protein was high in the blood test before and it is also normal.
Thanks
All he did was a CBC
Should I take him back in to the vet for some more blood test. Which ones should i ask for?
Oh forgot to add he had a ultrasound done to see if they could see something or stones but nothing showed on that.
Before you give your horse a bunch or herbs talk to your Vet about running some fluids in the horse to flush the liver and kidneys. Then do another liver/kidney test and ask for it to be sent off. The Lasercyte at the Vets office doesn’t give as good of a reading as the labs.
sorry i dont have an answer but im glad your horse pulled through the colic and that he is better now
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Ask your vet to check his kidneys as well. When horses eat a lot of acorns/oak leaves, they attack the horse’s liver and kidneys. The symtoms look like colic, but isn’t. I lost two horses out on lease because of this stuff.