Cures for horse colic include surgery to fix a torsion or gastric rupture, or a tubing method to fix a blockage or impaction colic. Seek immediate remedies from a vet to cure colic with helpful information from a farm manager and on-site veterinarian in this free video on horses.
Cures for colic vary a great deal depending on the reason or the type of colic you are dealing with. A torsion in the horse's intestines can only be fixed by surgery. And sometimes can still be fatal. Gastric ruptures are possible to occur in the horse's stomach because a horse is not able to throw up like a human. If a horse is loose and has free rein of the feed room, it will gorge itself on that feed and cause it's stomach to rupture. This is why storage of feed is very important especially your grains to have them in a safe place. If your horse has a blockage colic or an impaction colic, your vet can come out and do a tubing on your horse. It will run the tube down the horse's nose through it's esophagus into it's stomach, extract the food that's remaining and replace it with fluids that will help the horse's gut become fluid and liquid again. This may or may not work with or without surgery, it depends on the horse. Parasites can also cause colic because they cause a spasmatic motion in the intestines which is unnatural for the horses. This can easily by remedied with paste wormers and should be done under the consultation of your vet. If you can encourage a horse to have a bowel movement such as loading in the trailer or putting the horse on a lunge line sometimes they can go ahead and work this out on their own. Drugs such as Buscopan and Banamine can also be used just the same in order to keep the horse from becoming stressed and to chemically relax it's stomach.
Specialty: Horse Health
