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Posted on Monday, Feb 4, 2002 - 9:47 pm: HI-I have a QH mare that was raced as a 3-5 year old. Now I barrel race on her, and sometimes when she is in stressful situations, and sometimes when I use bute paste, she has a sticky clear slobber, and she will lose her appetite for about an hour afterword. I read your conversation on wormers, but I don't feel that it is a toxicity problem. I have had her scoped and they can't find anything. Do you have any suggestions? |
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Posted on Tuesday, Feb 5, 2002 - 8:14 am: Hello ShayLee,Bute can be irritating to the mucosa of the mouth and there are a lot of horses that won't eat following administration of bute, probably more to do with taste than irritation. I am not sure what you can do to stop this...you might try another NSAID or when it is important to have a eating not slobbering horse an injection of Banamine. See Medications: Antiinflammatories: NSAIDS for other choices. DrO |
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Posted on Tuesday, Feb 5, 2002 - 9:13 am: My horse is on daily NSAIDs -- bute for several months until I switched to meclofenamate -- so maybe this will help you.The bute paste is very sticky stuff, and remains in the mouth a lot longer than bute tabs crushed up and mixed with applesauce. Switch to the tablets. (The tablets are much cheaper, too.) And when you syringe, get the syringe all the way up so you are delivering the drug up at the top of the tongue, that way they really don't taste it as much. Finally, find a food they really like that competes successfully with the taste of the bute to get rid of any residual drug taste. A big handful of sunflower hearts does the trick for my horse. He'll always eat them right after getting the bute if I put them in a feed bucket; depending on how good a job I did getting the medicine back over the top of his tongue, he might accept them from my hand right after the bute. Once he's had those, his appetite returns. He used to go off his feed for an hour after bute; now it's 5 minutes. Melissa |
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Posted on Tuesday, Feb 5, 2002 - 10:19 pm: Thanks for the advice from both of you! I am going to try the bute tabs, and also the banamine. But sometimes she will do the slobber thing without anything...but it never happens at home, only on the road. Could this be a side effect of an ulser? If so, should I put her on the zantac that you discussed in the ulcer discussion?ShayLee |
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