Case reports horse, Dr. vet. med Nicole Herout

First EMS patients

Pony Mare L., 15 years

The pretty little pony mare long-since suffered from problems with recurrent lameness. The pony was far too well fed even though she received no more concentrate feed. The blacksmith had already expressed the suspicion of chronic laminitis but she lives in a beautiful large playpen along with a large warm blood which always had hay in the outdoor rack. The clever little pony discovered this and gorged herself with it. The lab results confirmed the suspicion of an EMS disease, coffin bone was rotated about three degrees and so the mare was brought to my clinic in March 2010.

We restricted her feed and fed only small amounts of hay but plenty of thistle straw.  Furthermore, she received small amounts of soaked hay cobs enriched with MOMO-AKTIV HORSE Hepar. The further therapy consisted of acupuncture twice a week to stimulate detoxification of the liver. From 3rd of April the mare was lunged without lameness and got dismissed back home on the 24th of April 2010 asymptomatic.