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[RC] tying up - Bagwell, TheresaI 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.
Theresa
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