Re: Antibiotics & Strangles

["Dyane Smith" <sunibey@sisqtel.net>]

Heidi,
Are abcesses abcesses from this point of view?  For example, would you treat
a hoof abcess in the same way?
Dyane and Suni (going crazy with weeks of abcess after 15 years abcess free)
N. Ca


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From: <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
To: <Dbeverly4@aol.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 10:25 AM
Subject: RC: Antibiotics & Strangles


> In a message dated 11/18/99 10:12:47 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> Trailrite@aol.com writes:
>
> << About the treatment, is was SMZ's.  >>
>
> Although there is controversy over strangles treatment, I still feel more
> comfortable using sulfas in treatment, as abcesses will go ahead and form
and
> break, instead of just being repressed as they are by penicillin.  Once
the
> abcesses are open and draining, I don't think it matters so much.
>
> As to letting the disease "run its course"--there are many things you can
do
> in early phases, such as provide antiinflamatory drugs, etc., that can
> greatly improve the outcome, even if you don't jump right in and start the
> horse on antibiotics.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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