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["Barbara B. Peck" <bpeck@together.net>]

Anna:

I had a horse have a post vaccination seizure (2 hrs after a rabies vaccination) in 1996.

The only worse thing I've ever seen in my life, was when a vet tech administered an IV shot wrong and shot an air bubble into the juglar vein of a friends horse... horse had a stroke.

 

My vet was still in the area and was close ebough to save my horse.

(He had had increasingly worse reactions every year prior to this incident and we were watching him.

In his case we think it's his immune system, as vaccine brands were changed every year thinking it was the carrying agent )

 

What does your vet say?

 

I would be carefull in the future with vaccines if this is what you suspect., and would try to determine if it was the carrying agent i.e. some sort of type II delayed allergic reaction..

Or a reaction because the horses titer was too high to begin with (in which case it may be

the horses immune system overreacting.)

 

I can tell you that only about 1/2of 1% of horse are considered "reactive"

and it can be life threatening, and theres not too much info out there on the subject.

 

I gave my horse 10 days off after that incident, and he's been fine ever since.. but he's had no more vaccinations.

I do titers instead.

 

Barb