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Miriam Whelan
| | Posted on Wednesday, Apr 28, 1999 - 12:19 pm: |   |
Has anyone had any experience with pregnancy in mares causing eye problems? Tearing, puffiness of lower eyelids, blueish color covering pupil of eye. There was never any apparent trauma or discomfort to the eye. My vet thinks it may be a cataract, caused by recurring uveitus treated with atropine, and antibiotic eye ointment and lose dose of banamine, and now bute. She has a two week old foal at her side, so we have to be careful. Any Suggestions? Thank you |
The Advisor Vet, RN Oglesby DVM
| | Posted on Thursday, Apr 29, 1999 - 6:42 pm: | |
No I do not think the pregnancy is related to the eye problem. Is the opacity in front of the pupil (anterior chamber or cornea) or behind the pupil (lens). A cataract is behind the pupil in the lens wheras inflammation of the cornea would be cloudiness of the outer clear parts? Is there still no discomfort? Any evidence of an ulcer? Has a fluorescein stain been run?
If the problem is recurrent uveitis, and I cannot tell from your post, how about a injection of subbulbar conjunctival corticosteroid? This is a where a tiny bit of repositol steroid is injected in the loose tissue covering the white part of the eye ball. It is easy, highly effective for RU, requires minimal effort, and safe for the baby.
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sabina a. hege
| | Posted on Wednesday, Oct 6, 1999 - 8:57 pm: | |
I have an 8 year old paint mare that lost her eye today. these are the events that led up to the eye removal: first I noticed some mild tearing in her eye on 9/10 my vet came & gave her "gentocin & atropine ointment, she also did a floresence stain
words may be mispelled due to vets hand writing. 9/13 no improvement, 9/14-9/17 vet continued "gentocin, atropine added ak-sulf, monostat. 9/14 bacterial done bacllus sp. contamamint, 9/14 rose begal stain -uptake pinpoint & defuse @ centeral cornia. 9/17 scraping/cytology- no evidence of fungal hyphae or inflammatory cells. vet contacts me & says she feels the mare has herpes, orders idoxuridine . 9/18 adds neopoly bact e hc (steroid ?) & occufen solni, 9/21 condition worsens, stained again minimal uptake, mild cornia edema centrally. 9/22 no improvement, corgurehua still hypremic/ swollen, increased corneal edema & roughened corneal surface./at this point my vet called & said we must take the mare to virginia tech that day. we did they did a sraping & found unhealthy fungus , said that was a good sign for about a week they teated her always telling us how well she was doing then the day we were to bring her her home they said she needed emergency surgery the fungus was penetrating her cornia the surgery took 5 hrs. all was well, then again the day we were to bring her home they called & said the eye had ruptured, needless to say two days later which is today they took her back to surgery and removed the eye. my mare is 6 mo. pregnant and we do not know how all of this will affect the baby who has for the past 3 days had a rapid heart beat. vt has identified the fungas as "chrysosporium" they said this fungus has never been seen in a horses eye. I have done alot of research over the past few days. did the steroid neopoly e hc worsen the condition? this process lasted over 3 weeks do you think the mare's eye could have been saved? how could my vet not of found the fungus when vt found it the same day we took her there & what would of made my vet think it was herpes ? please give me your opinion. this is a much loved horse . we have already spent thousands of dollars on this and now I am afraid if they didn't get all of the fungus we could also lose the mare & the baby.
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Administration
| | Posted on Thursday, Oct 7, 1999 - 7:16 am: | |
Sabina,
Instead of posting your question at the bottom of someone elses discussion you should create your own. This is the appropriate forum, so just back up to the Forum Page where all the discussions are listed and select: New Discussion. The easiest way to do this is using the navigation bar at the top of this page and selecting Forum.
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