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Carroll Harms (Worried)
| | Posted on Sunday, Aug 6, 2000 - 12:24 pm: |   |
How to administer: I wanted to know if you give this direct from the refrigerator and if it is given in the neck like other injections. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM (Dro)
| | Posted on Sunday, Aug 6, 2000 - 3:08 pm: | |
Hello Carroll,
Both IV and IM injections are given in the neck this would be line any other IM injection.
DrO |
Carroll Harms (Worried)
| | Posted on Thursday, Aug 10, 2000 - 8:00 pm: | |
Thank you Dr. O. for the info on pneumabort. I am new at this but know how to give injections but not on horses. It came in handy |
Cindy Meens (Cmeens)
| | Posted on Thursday, Aug 24, 2000 - 9:01 pm: | |
Two days ago my vet gave my 5 month preg. mare a pheumabort K injection. Yesterday I noticed a huge swelling at the injection site, approx. 8 inches wide and 1 inch tall. Today she seems stiff and sore all over, told me she feels bad, and has some swelling on her left side, behind the girth area, just as the barrel curves under. The swelling in her neck is slightly reduced, but still sore. I don't know whether to panic, or if this is just a horrid reaction to the injection (in that case I probably will panic). |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM (Dro)
| | Posted on Friday, Aug 25, 2000 - 6:53 am: | |
Yes this is a vaccine reaction and if it does not abscess phenylbutazone will relieve the symptoms rapidly. I think you ought to have your vet check this.
DrO |
Tammy Navarrete (Mewzet)
| | Posted on Thursday, Mar 7, 2002 - 11:13 pm: | |
I unknowingly gave my mare an injection in the wrong area. I gave it too high up on the buttocks. Apparently, I hit the tip of her hip bone and the needle bent. She now has swelling in her rear, but it has gone down since the initial swelling. How long should I wait before I know if it has abscessed?
Tammy |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM (Dro)
| | Posted on Friday, Mar 8, 2002 - 7:30 am: | |
It is not how long so much as the progression of the clinical appearance. In general abscesses just get worse until they drain. For more on giving injections properly see, Equine Diseases: First Aid: Giving Injections and Anatomy Orientation.
DrO |
Imogen Bertin
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Username: Imogen
Post Number: 279
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Monday, Jan 13, 2003 - 1:00 pm: | |
Dear Dr O
I am feeling very stupid because somehow I missed the information about pneumabort K and EHV 1/4 when I was trying to gen up on broodmare care - actually I think the problem is I was trying not to think about the whole thing until the mare started to show...
Anyway, my mare is now about 7.5 months pregnant - is there any point in giving the vaccine now (either pneumabort K or the EHV 1/4 killed vaccine you mention)? She has never had this vaccination before, she does get Tetanus and 'flu vaccinations every year.
Thanks for any information you can give. If you think it is a good idea at this stage I shall contact my vet and ask what's the usual practice/if there's much risk here - as far as I can find out it seems to be only done for high value mares which mine isn't.
Imogen
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Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 7579
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003 - 6:07 am: | |
Yes I think it might be worthwhile. Give one then follow it in 3 weeks with a booster and you will be done for the pregnancy.
DrO |
Imogen Bertin
Member
Username: Imogen
Post Number: 280
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, Jan 22, 2003 - 2:38 am: | |
Thanks Dr O. I got the vaccination from my vet - you might be interested to know that EHV 1/4 (killed) seems to be favoured over pneumabort here.
Imogen |
Lisa MacDougall
New Member
Username: lisamac
Post Number: 1
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, Feb 7, 2007 - 5:18 pm: | |
I am moving my horse to a barn where there is a pregnant mare. The owner of the stable and the preganant mare, requires all new boarders to have the horse vaccinated with pneumabort K. My mare has her rhino vaccination, and my vet says that the pneumabort vaccine would not do the preganant mare or my mare any good, becasue my horse is not pregnant. I tried to tell the stable owner this, but her vet strongly advises her to have the incoming horses vaccinated with pneumabort. So my question: Is is necessary for my mare to have the pneumabort vaccine to save her mare from an aborted fetus? And is my mares vaccine for rhino enough? Thanks, Lisa Mac |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
Moderator
Username: dro
Post Number: 17713
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, Feb 7, 2007 - 6:36 pm: | |
Welcome Lisa,
You need to back up one page and post your question in a new discussion. Even better would be to post it at, Diseases of Horses » Reproductive Diseases » Problems Keeping Mares Pregnant » Equine Herpes & Abortion. You can read more about this issue in the article there.
DrO |
