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Discussion on Pedal osteitis - aspirin?
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Posted on Thursday, Apr 20, 2000 - 1:30 pm:
My 7 yr. old Quarterhorse mare was perfectly sound all her life until one day this spring, she galloped and bucked around her pasture on a snowy spring day when there was a lot of slippery mud on the ground. She came up very lame on one front leg within a few hours. The vet x-rayed her and found "old" pedal osteitis. Her feet were not sore at the time of his examination. He put her on bute for about a week and she stopped limping completely within that time. I have not been riding her - giving her 6 weeks of just leading in hand and regular pature turnout for 5 hours a day. My vet wants me to give her aspirin every other day to thin the blood and get it into the foot. I have never heard of this - what do you think?
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Posted on Thursday, Apr 20, 2000 - 2:34 pm:
The thinning the blood seems to be standard advice for pedal ostitis, my old horse was on warfarin for 10 years to keep his blood thin after it was diagnosed.
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Posted on Thursday, Apr 20, 2000 - 4:55 pm:
Aspirin is definately a way to reduce clotting of the blood. Though it is rapidly cleared from the horse the effects on clotting are long-term. What other diagnostic work was done to confirm PO?
DrO
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