Improving Equine GI Diagnostics & Management

Equine hindgut health is important, and plays a key role in a horse’s overall wellbeing. Hindgut health impacts a horse’s:

• Health
• Appearance
• Temperament
• Performance

The Problem

Knowing that so many health issues originate in the hindgut is one thing, but it’s another to be equipped with the right tools to make an accurate diagnosis. Many of the current diagnostic modalities address only the foregut, require fasting and sedation to get accurate results, or are limited in other ways. Veterinarians need a reliable diagnostic method that helps you catch GI issues early on and get your equine patients on the road to recovery.

The Solution

Diseases of the equine digestive tract are a far too-common reality for the modern performance horse. That’s because horses in competition are exposed to the rigors of training and travel, diets rich in processed feeds with minimal access to turnout, and other stresses that make GI tract conditions a near certainty. And many available treatments only serve to mask problems, so the conditions are likely to recur. Veterinarians need an approach that allows for managing GI health, to avoid the “diagnose, treat, repeat” cycle.