My daughters horse tied-up after a 45 min. walk trot late last spring.
Her levels were AST 4635 (normal 168-408), LDH 8018 (normal 140-440), CPK ?over 120,000
(normal 110-700). She didn’t need fluids as she was drinking and had low
HR, good gut sounds etc. Shadow did have coffee colored urine at least once. She
was walking slow for just a couple of days, after that moved and looked quite
normal, however, the retest done in 2 weeks showed she was still waaay over normal. We did start handwalking
a couple of miles daily. We waited another 6 weeks and she was finally back to normal. Shadow had done 2 50 mile rides 2 weeks
prior and was on turnout with a couple acres of green grass, and also getting oat/wheat/barley
hay, and a daily mash that had about 1 ½ cups of oats, along with a quart of
beet pulp, salt, vitamins. ?Selenium was
low for an endurance horse, but would have been considered acceptable for
others at .187. And she was in season at the time.
Shadow has been on a selenium supplement since then, and gets even less
oats when not working, more on work days. Feed the work…no work, no
grain. And we always make sure the first 15-30 minutes of work is done at a
walk, then slow jog.
Are they going to check the selenium level?
If it were my horse, I’d ask for no grain except on days I worked
the horse. I’m sure others will chime in here.
Kathy
I have a young friend at the barn whose horse (a hunter
jumper) tied up on Sunday after a mild workout of 45 minutes or so out hacking
in the field. The vet came out and gave him fluids, took some blood to
send off and the horse seems to have recovered. This horse is worked
lightly on a fairly regular basis (depending on the owner's homework load at
school) but is at a farm that believes in really laying the grain to the
horses. I had kept my endurance horse there a few years ago and I had to
fight to get to feed less and my own low starch/nsc
feed. The vet did recommend that he change to the exact feed I use and
for the next week give him as little as possible just to get salt into
him. My real question (as he asked me and I have NO idea because although
I have seen some horses tying up after rides I haven't had one that did so
haven't done anything other than casual reading on the subject) is the creatinine level came back on his blood work as 55,000 with
the normal range listed as 150-175 which is obviously severely elevated and he
wanted to know if that was considered a really severe case? I would
assume so, but I would never tell someone that without knowing for sure.
He said he asked the vet and they just told him to do the feed changes and they
would take blood again on monday
which will be 1 week from the first blood test.
Any insight as to the extent that level would be
considered would be appreciated.
