Discussion on Prepurchase exam for past strangles
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Dennis Taylor
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Username: dtranch
Post Number: 469
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 8:39 am: |   |
Is there a way to determine if a horse has had strangles in the past? I may seem stupid here, but I had a customer looking at 2 horses and she advised me that the one horse had had strangles in the past. She said she could tell by examining under the throat and feeling for lumps. I have owned both horses since foaling, and the one that she said had had strangles to my knowledge had not. Ironically, the other one had, but she gave him a clean bill of health. To my knowledge, you can always feel a little of the lymph gland, but what do I know.
Please help, so I don't have to feel so stupid in the future.
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Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: dro
Post Number: 18482
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 6:52 am: | |
Dennis, you are correct you can always feel the submandibular lymph nodes (for more on the location see Diseases of Horses » Skin Diseases, Wounds, and Swellings » Swellings / Localized Infection / Abscesses » Diagnosing and Assessing Swellings in Horses).
You should also note there are a number of other causes for submandibular lymphadenopathy (enlargement) and it frequently occurs for no apparent reason at all. But last of all even if the horse has had strangles in the past, the vast majority of horses with Strangles recover to normal and then tend to be resistent to infection for some time afterward.
DrO |
