My warmblood gelding arrived on my property with an infected sheath, I have spent thousands on vets naturopaths trying to fix him. He has had numerous swabs taken, biopsies, bloods drawn countless antibiotics, penicillin, herbs, lotions, potions, you name it he‘s had it! The lab reports say he‘s pretty much had every known bacteria the most recent is pseudomonas among others. He‘s 18yrs old now is super fit otherwise super healthy happy! I have to wash his sheath out daily with malaseb or similiar. He‘s also developed the papilloma virus on his gums but not around his muzzle? His white blood cells are fine indicating his immune system isn‘t compromised but he was slightly anemic. I‘ve been supplementing his feed with all sorts of herbs ie rosehips, seaweed, garlic, sunflower seeds, sea salt, brewer‘s yeast, mudgee dolomite, protexin, oil, apple cider etc under the guideance of an equine naturopath but the infection continues the vets are at a loss with what to do next?!?!
Get in touch with Univercity of Calif. at Davis Vetinary Collage, you can take him there and have him examined they are top of the line equine experts.UC Davis CEH - Publications - Horse Report - Previous IssuesWhen Disaster Strikes - UC Davis Veterinary Emergency Response Team is There to Help . Clifton Drew Receives Louis R. Rowan Fellowship in Equine Studies . www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CEH/pubs-hrepor. - 39k - Cached
Somehow your horse's immune system has been compromised. Possibly through a virus that he may have had a long time ago. Hard for him to have an ok white cell count and be anemic at the same time. Depending on where you live, I'd contact a University vet school for additional consults with the best vets in the business. Allow them to do additional labs on your horse, have your local vet draw bloods and smears and send to them Good luck!! UC-Davis in Davis California www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/resserv.cf. University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center, where Barbaro was treated. www.vet.upenn.edu/nbc/ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado www.cvmbs lostate.edu/
try a heaped teaspoon of copper sulphate with tablespoon of mudgee dolomite in his feed everydayYes I know copper sulphate is poison etc but it will take an ounce in one sitting to even look like killing him and dolomite is an antidote. you can try sluicing his sheath with a copper sulphate solution (say a good sky blue colour).
