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Discussion on Broodmare bleeding from vulva - not pregnanct
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sureed
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Posted on Monday, Oct 15, 2007 - 10:09 pm:
My 13 year old Hanoverian Broodmare who is open for 2008 (but foaled 7/4/07) was bleeding lightly but steadily from her vulva this morning. Vet has seen her, looked and felt inside and found no evidence of tumor/cancer, no hemorhoids, no ectopic pregnancy (we tried to breed her twice after foaling without success and are now holding her open until Spring). The mare is normal in every other way and eating like the 17.1h moose of a horse that she is. I trust my vet very much, he knows her very well. But he says he has no explanation other than spontaneous vaginal bleeding from a vein rich area. He advises watch for a week and recall if she hasn't stopped bleeding.
Has anyone else had any experience with this?
Thanks,
Suzanne
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DrO
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Posted on Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007 - 9:23 am:
I occasionally see a mare with a little blood at the vulva and take such a conservative route. If the mare is continuing to bleed I usually start with a simple speculum exam. Never have found a serious disease unually just a unexplained wound or erosion on the vaginal wall that healed with no treatment other than a few dilute betadine in saline flushes and they may have healed up without that.
DrO
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eoeo
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Posted on Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007 - 9:40 am:
We had a mare who was 17 years old that we had to put down because her veins were so large and thin walled that she started bleeding and it didn't clear up. Her last foal was extremely large, even for her, she was 17h and I wonder if it wasn't trauma that caused her condition. She started bleeding after she foaled, it stopped but reoccured the following breeding season when she came into heat. We had left her open so that they would heal up but the vet said they were huge and engorged with blood when we checked her for breeding.
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sureed
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Posted on Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007 - 2:14 pm:
Thanks Dr. O. She is being watched closely and we will take the conservative route. Speculum exam revealed nothing unusual.
eoeo, sorry for the loss of your mare. Dr. didn't think it was related to foaling (last July 4th) or that there was anything unusual about her veins that would explain the bleeding. Fortunately, the farm owner/manager is a vet tech, so she will keep a close watch on her.
Suzanne
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