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Angie J.
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Username: ajudson1
Post Number: 2091
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, Nov 2, 2008 - 8:31 am: |   |
Dr.O,
Yesterday afternoon I gave Gem a Bute tablet crushed in her feed with a small amount of molasses. She was a little bit off at the trot, something that occurs now and then, and I've given the Bute before for a couple of days.
A couple of hours later, I noticed she was laying down; in different spots everytime I looked out, and laying flat out, occasionaly looking at her stomach but very calm. Her breathing was a little fast, but it's been very warm also and she has her winter coat.
I took her for a walk, she was alert and moving fine. Pooping fine also. I blanketed her, left her alone in the round pen with hay and she was starting to eat.
At 11, about 4 hours later, she was still eating and moving around so I unblanketed her, left her with the rest of the horses.
Does this sound like a reaction to the Bute? If it happens again, what is the best thing to do? Give some oil to coat her stomach? She's never been on Bute long term, so I am not thinking ulcers.
If I thought it was severe colic, I'd have called a vet of course. |
Diane E.
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Username: scooter
Post Number: 3094
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, Nov 2, 2008 - 9:08 am: | |
Angie, my old girl doesn't tolerate bute well either, I have learned to substitute banamine instead, (paste) I hate giving shots! For some reason it seems to help her arthritis more than the bute anyway. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: dro
Post Number: 21655
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Monday, Nov 3, 2008 - 7:02 am: | |
Short term transient colic would not be a common reaction to a short course of a moderate dosage of phenylbutazone.
DrO |
Angie J.
Member
Username: ajudson1
Post Number: 2093
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, Nov 3, 2008 - 7:35 am: | |
Thanks DrO,
Must of been just one of those weird things that happen for no noticeable reason and probably will never happen again. She's been fine since. |
Erika L
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Username: erika
Post Number: 1416
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, Nov 3, 2008 - 4:33 pm: | |
Angie, was she lying on her tempurpedic mattress when it occurred?
Erika |
Angie J.
Member
Username: ajudson1
Post Number: 2094
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, Nov 3, 2008 - 5:51 pm: | |
Erika, she probably would have appreciated one though!
Hmmm...I've heard of dogs looking like their owners, taking on each others characteristcs, and owners looking like their dogs...and I have a horse with a gimpy tendon, one with belly issues, one whose joints creak and crack, oh my, I don't like where this is headed!! |
