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TwinGates
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Anyone have experience w/this? It's a rare, auto-immune disease that there's still much speculation about. While not hereditary, speculation about causes ranges from poor nutrition to pollutantion poisoning - which IMO means they've got no idea. Although not breed-specific, Arabs and Apaloosa's seem to be most afflicted.
The Knabstrupper breeders w/two Taz daughters, sold the 1st one (Zoe) to a British eventer who's now terrified Zoe may have this. Never having heard of pemphigus coronitis, I researched it and the prognosis is rather grim. If so, there's a 99% chance Zoe will never have an eventing career, and it's possible she'll eventually need to be humanely destroyed b/c of associated pain. Steroids are currently the most popular treatment, but they're short-term solutions.
Biopsy results are due mid-week. Pls. hold a good thought - it's not yet certain (and what a gift a false alarm would be!) Zoe has pemphigus coronitis. Melanie (Zoe's new owner) is devastated as this was to be her "serious" eventer, and having seen this filly jump a 5' fence as a yearling, it breaks my heart she may be robbed of the chance to fulfill her potential.
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Joy
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I've never heard of it, either, but I would urge Zoe's owner not to give up, but to seek a good [i]homeopathic[i] vet. Britain has many excellent homeopathic veterinarians, and IMO, this is where Western medicine falls down, and homeopathy excels--in the treatment of chronic diseases. Since homeopaths do not treat diseases, but the individual and what is presenting, a definite diagnosis is not required. They'll look at bloodwork, of course, but also the individuals personality, symptomotology, what makes it worse, what makes it better, what was going on when it first appeared (for mentals clues), history, and so forth. It's also far less expensive than conventional medicine, and the object is [i]cure[i] rather than maintenance or suppression.
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Joy
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Disease names are a product of allopathic thinking. Horses, as well as people, can present different symptoms for the same "disease". Take, for instance, children with chickenpox. One may have a severe fever with delirium, another may have a severe case and want the window open and drink lots of water, another may have a mild case and be thirstless. All three have chickenpox, but the remedy for each may be different. The right remedy will cure the illness.
So, one horse with pemphigus may present symptoms that another will not. Homeopaths prescribe on the totality of the symptoms and the individual. Since that's the case, a "name" for the illness is not required. In fact, trying to prescribe on the basis of a named disease will often lead homeopaths off into a wrong path, because they'll miss the symptoms that will lead them to the right remedy. There are many, many homeopaths who are not M.D.'s or vets, who are extremely successful in treating both acute and chronic illnesses, often when allopathic medicine can do nothing.
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and they are still not talking, but I am told it is near.