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Post by sebarnes on Mar 5, 2009 14:12:59 GMT
Interesting what you have all been saying about reactions to flu jabs. My mare Kallie always used to swell up big time and be under the weather for a few days when she first had her jabs. She used to look like she had udders hanging down between her front legs! A year of so later I had a homeopathic vet out to see her for something else and she asked lots and lots of questions and put it (legs swelling like and elephant if she had a cut/knock)down to overeaction to flu vaccination and treated her with thuja. Since then she has a much smaller reaction to her flu jabs.
A friend of mine has a 14yr old mare who suffers from Cushings and a year ago spent 9 months on box rest for laminitis. Interestingly the Laminitis Trust told her not to have her flu jab. A friend of hers who has a horse who has laminitis in the past had its flu jab and then had a full laminitic attack as a result
Hope both your ponies make a speedy recovery.
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Post by titch on Mar 5, 2009 23:41:53 GMT
Titch has had Laminitis in the past. Funny you should mention swelling as Titch had one on her belly in front of where the udders would be. Mum said it was a gland up this happened after the 3rd injection!!! Wonder is the jabs can bring on Lami. I know i shall not be risking it again as pony has only just started to improve!
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Post by sebarnes on Mar 10, 2009 8:28:05 GMT
Titch has had Laminitis in the past. Funny you should mention swelling as Titch had one on her belly in front of where the udders would be. Mum said it was a gland up this happened after the 3rd injection!!! Wonder is the jabs can bring on Lami. I know i shall not be risking it again as pony has only just started to improve! Think its scary when the Laminitis Trust told my friend not to flu jab her mare and another local vet said it wouldn't make a difference to someone else and her mare ended up lame. Glad your pony Titch is improving.
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Post by titch on Mar 10, 2009 9:25:55 GMT
Titch cantered across the field last night for the first time in ages and seems everyday to be getting better it is just taking time i think it will as all that stuff in still in her system. Definitely never again will she have the flu jab!!! Poor girl she was really down and out but getting perkier by the day. I hate it when they are down. All her feet are cool again now and not raging hot she is not shifting weight hardly at all and i took her in the school for a walk on the lunge and she galloped offf!!!
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Post by smokey on Mar 10, 2009 9:48:44 GMT
My mare last year had a flu jab and then had a reaction, down, wouldn't eat and her neck was sore then went down with colic as a reaction of the jab ended up with my mare colicing for 4 days, on a drip as she wouldn't drink, vets rang the company to report that batch.
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Post by sebarnes on Mar 10, 2009 14:04:41 GMT
Titch cantered across the field last night for the first time in ages and seems everyday to be getting better it is just taking time i think it will as all that stuff in still in her system. Definitely never again will she have the flu jab!!! Poor girl she was really down and out but getting perkier by the day. I hate it when they are down. All her feet are cool again now and not raging hot she is not shifting weight hardly at all and i took her in the school for a walk on the lunge and she galloped offf!!! That's brilliant news re Titch
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