{"id":6344,"date":"2020-07-29T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:18","slug":"systemic-antibiotics-what-horse-people-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"Systemic Antibiotics- What Horse People Should Know."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Flash had a small wound on his lower leg that had taken forever to heal. His vet recommended an antibiotic for a week, but the owner didn\u2019t think the wound was healing fast enough. Her friend happened to have another antibiotic in her tack trunk. They added that one in too. 24 hours after starting the second antibiotic, Flash stopped eating, developed a fever, and then started pipe-stream diarrhea.
\nAfter 3 weeks in an equine hospital isolation barn and over $14,000.00 in vet bills, Flash was finally able to go home. He was crippled by laminitis, and he had lost one of his jugular veins. It would take him 3 months to return to being ridden again and he was never quite the same. Flash was one of the lucky ones. Most horses that develop severe antibiotic-induced colitis do not survive.\u00a0 READ MORE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t take antibiotic use in the horse lightly! As a responsible horse person:<\/p>\n

\u2022 You should understand the potential benefits but also the limitations and dangers of systemic antibiotic use in horses.
\n\u2022 You should always use antibiotics under the direction of a licensed vet, experienced in equine medicine.
\n\u2022 You should recognize how fragile the equine intestinal microbiome is compared to that of other species. Know that disturbing it through the use of antibiotics can in rare cases mean the death of the horse.
\n\u2022 You should also understand and respect the danger of development of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
\n\u2022 You should know the few antibiotics labeled for use in the horse, and that other use of antibiotics is extra-label. If there is an FDA-approved antibiotic for a given use, your vet should ideally select that over an extra-label antibiotic.
\n\u2022 You should have the skills to properly administer the medication. Here are a few skills that I list in Horse Side Vet<\/p>\n

Guide, which you might need to be able to treat your horse with antibiotics:
\nAssessing treatment effectiveness: https:\/\/horsesidevetguide.com\/drv\/Skill\/194\/assess-effectiveness-of-treatment-objectively\/<\/a><\/p>\n

As the horse\u2019s owner, you also have a vital role in providing feedback as to how a treatment is working. In this way, adjustments can be made in treatment plan.
\nHow to give oral Medication:https:\/\/horsesidevetguide.com\/drv\/Skill\/28\/give-oral-medication\/<\/a>
\nAssess your horse\u2019s general health:https:\/\/horsesidevetguide.com\/drv\/Skill\/146\/perform-whole-horse-exam-whe\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flash had a small wound on his lower leg that had taken forever to heal. His vet recommended an antibiotic for a week, but the owner didn\u2019t think the wound was healing fast enough. Her friend happened to have another antibiotic in her tack trunk. They added that one in too. 24 hours after starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}