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Video of a piece of wood being removed from the mouth of a pony who was drooling and having difficulty eating
Piece of wood being removed from a pony’s mouth
Tear duct flush following grass seed removal
🌵🌵 CASE OF THE WEEK!! 🌵🌵
This pony came in today because her eye had been weepy for a few days - not painful at all - just weepy. Clinical examination of her eye was unremarkable with no evidence of an eye ulcer or conjunctivitis, and no obvious reason for her runny eye.
HOWEVER, there was more exciting stuff hiding away in her nasal passage on that side of her face, and it turns out that a huge grass seed had lodged itself into her nasolacrimal duct resulting in a blocked tear duct and an overflow of tears which was the reason for her weepy eye.
When we pulled out the grass seed a heap of pus poured out from her nose and some pus also appeared in her eye. We flushed her nasolacrimal duct and it was certainly the most impressive tear duct flush we have ever seen, so of course we had to share it with our FB followers - but be warned - it comes with a rather high grossness factor 🤢🤢😂😂
Pics attached here and video to follow…
(THIS IS THE ORIGINAL POST ABOUT THIS PONY AND HER BLOCKED TEAR DUCT AND AS ABOVE IT STATED THAT THE VIDEO OF THE TEAR DUCT FLUSH WOULD FOLLOW, AND IT DID)
🌟🌟🌟FOALING DOWN AT VEVC🌟🌟🌟 The maternity ward here at the Valley is starting to fill up, and Dr Paula Bell-Cross is certainly going to be busy as ever when it comes to delivering babies this season! As always she is doing her best work as the carrot lady with lots of bribery and corruption going on at all times of day and night..🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🥕🥕 This usually works a treat, and by the time the pregnant ladies are ready to foal they think she is the best, and don’t mind her being around to assist when they have their babies 🦄🐴💞💞 All of our foaling down mares are kitted out with Foalert foaling alarms, and are monitored around the clock with video surveillance in their stables and yards overnight, and Dr Paula onsite and available to assist as needed at foaling time. Our foaling down service is very much focused on being able to provide the optimal environment and care for your mare both pre and post foaling, as well as caring for all the new babies until they are ready to go home. Due to high demand we currently have very limited availability for any additional bookings for foaling down this season, and any further requests for this will be subject to availability in relation to your mares anticipated foaling down dates. All bookings will need to be confirmed by the end of September as foaling down requests made beyond this date my not be possible. As always the team here at the Valley are eagerly awaiting the arrival of this season’s new babies, so watch this space for lots of foal cuteness coming up over the next few months! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
*** GASTROSCOPE BOOKINGS AVAILABLE*** Due to the last minute postponement of a large lameness work-up tomorrow (Tuesday 27th June), Dr Paula Bell-Cross is now available to fit in a few gastroscopes instead. This will be on a first come, first served basis, and don’t forget your horse has to be adequately fasted to be scoped, so bookings need to be made by 5pm today. We have been seeing some absolutely horrific gastric ulcers recently, so if you think your horse might have them, we highly recommend that you get them scoped.
*** GASTROSCOPE BOOKINGS AVAILABLE*** Due to the last minute postponement of a large lameness work-up tomorrow (Tuesday 27th June), Dr Paula Bell-Cross is now available to fit in a few gastroscopes instead. This will be on a first come, first served basis, and don’t forget your horse has to be adequately fasted to be scoped, so bookings need to be made by 5pm today. We have been seeing some absolutely horrific gastric ulcers recently, so if you think your horse might have them, we highly recommend that you get them scoped.
Ocular habronemiasis - surgical removal of dead larvae done under sedation and topical local anaesthesia. This was followed up with an intra-lesional cortisone injection, and the horse was given an appropriate dose of an anthelmintic paste, in this case Moxidectin.
This is what sand in the GIT sounds like. I put the stethoscope earpiece next to my Samsung phone microphone and recorded it. The sound starts at 00:13 - 00:23 and again at 00:36 to 01:00. It is crescendo decrescendo in character. Important to note that auscultation is not reliable to rule out sand colic. Some horses are full of sand but the sand may not be audible...a false negative. The definitive way is to take abdo x-rays.
Our first foal patient for the season came in a couple of Sunday’s ago, and after a week of very intensive care and lots of medication we were absolutely delighted to send him home yesterday morning, finally happy and healthy. This little guy was born premature and came into our hospital when he wasn’t even 24 hours old yet. He had bloody diarrhoea due to septicaemia, and was one very sick little baby. The first 48 hours were very much touch and go, and he required round the clock care and very intensive therapy to pull him through. But he was a little fighter alright, and seeing him doing bog laps around the clinic once he started to feel better is more rewarding than words can say! And here he is in action -talk about cuteness overload! 🥰🥰🥰🥰