Re: Help-Virus relapse?

["Lori Hayward" <haywardl@shentel.net>]

Jerry -- We went through this with the whole herd(11 horses) last fall.
Spent tons of money on vets and antibiotics!  My 2 year old had same
symptons you are describing....the swelling in the neck scared me....but it
wasn't strangles just swollen lymph nodes.  Anyway.....what we finally found
worked along with time was:
1. Banamine for the fever
2. 1 20 cc shot per day IM of BP-48(combination of procaine and another that
I can't remember how to spell) for about 7 days(some of them only needed 5
days and some needed 10).

Before you use this treatment though check with your vet.  It was a nasty
virus with secondary bactirial infection that didn't affect all of them the
same way.  My mare that I compete with didn't show any symptons whatsoever,
my 6 year old gelding only got a fever for a couple of days and the
youngsters were the worst.  The young stallion would cough foam out of his
mouth and lots of snot from his nose.  The stallion was really sick and the
2 year old too.  After the virus and infection cleared up it took a couple
of months for the stallions cough to go away.

Good Luck!!!!

Lori Hayward
LIV2RYD in VA
-----Original Message-----
From: JERRY BARFIELD <barfield@primenet.com>
To: 'reck@goldrush.com' <reck@goldrush.com>
Cc: 'RIDECAMP' <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 2:22 AM
Subject: FW: Help-Virus relapse?


So far I have 3 horses sick with various degrees of symptoms of this.  The
worse  has had a tem  of 107 with cough, nasal discharge, white  saliva/foam
from his mouth, has trouble swallowing.  The on;y thing that gets his temp
down is hossing him down.  I gave him 1 gram of bute this am whenhis temp
was 103, 2 hrs later it spiked to 107.  At 5:00 p.m. gave him 2 grams of
bute and an oral antibiotic "Uniprim". At 8 p.m. his temp was 104.4 so I
hosed him again and got it down to 103 hoping that the cool evening with get
it down further.  The vet did a CBC blood work and found a bacterial count
with a high-normal white count.  Tomorrow he will do a culture to determine
what's going on ie Strangle/Strep or whatever else.  It does not seem to be
a virus based on the blood work.  Also he has swelling in his thoat latch
area which none of the other 2 hores have had.

Have not had problems with a relapse since it's too soon to tell.  Would be
interested in how others are treating this, ie what drugs, diagnosis? My
poor guy is miserabl/  He loves to eat normally and even tries to eat when
he's sick but starts to cough when he does.

Another sleepless night!

Bernita BArfield from Arizona

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From: Anita
Email: reck@goldrush.com

My horse came down with the virus that is going around, was symptomatic for
about ten days, was treated with SMZ for 7 days, was doing great. No fever,
no cough and no nasal discharge. Day 15 started to relapse again with temp
creeping up and has  choking spells with some  nasal discharge, though not
necessarily related to putting his head down as in a guttural pouch problem,
Not as sick as before but definetely tired of it all, laying down more
often.
Any one experiencing this?  Any leads would be appreciated.

                     Anita and "Sam"