Charity in push to bust laminitis myths
The British Equus caballus charity Redwings has produced iii leaflets to postage stamp out what is says are the myths nigh laminitis.
Redwings said inquiry indicated that nigh ninety per cent of laminitis cases were caused past times ane of ii underlying conditions: Equine Cushing’s Disease or Equine Metabolic Syndrome.
Spring grass is merely ane trigger for laminitis inward horses that already convey ane of these conditions, it says.
While Equine Cushing’s Disease is neither preventable nor curable, affected horses tin locomote carefully managed to foreclose episodes of laminitis. Good weight administration tin aid to foreclose Equine Metabolic Syndrome equally it is straight linked amongst obesity.
“The hurting of laminitis has been likened to ripping off your toenail,” Redwings Vet Roxane Kirton says.
“It must ever locomote treated equally an emergency, together with whatever episodes that are non treated properly tin Pb to permanent changes inward the hoof.
“Laminitis itself is shrouded inward myths together with confusion” ‘Walk it off’, ‘Feel for a pulse’, ‘Are the feet hot?’, ‘It entirely affects modest fatty native ponies’, ‘Just a few days inward a stable volition create it’.
“It’s fourth dimension to bust the myths. None of these things are foolproof ways of detecting the illness together with inward fact approximately of these ‘treatments’ could genuinely drive to a greater extent than impairment to your horse’s feet inward the long term.
“Research is ongoing but recent inquiry suggests most cases of laminitis are a sign of either Equine Cushing’s Disease or Equine Metabolic Syndrome.”
Kirton says the gratuitous leaflets volition aid Equus caballus owners empathize the ii conditions, also equally what to arrive at if laminitis strikes together with how to topographic point its often-subtle symptoms.
PDF versions of the leaflets tin locomote downloaded at http://www.redwings.org.uk/
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