Independent Research, Information, Help & Care for Laminitic & Cushings Syndrome Horses

We Need Your Help !

Lamintis Research (laminitis.org.uk) is funded mainly by private donations. We need money to pay for our research, develop our facilities and thereby to help the many horses who suffer from this awful condition.

How to Help:

Make a donation. The best way is by credit card via PayPal (you dont need an account with them).

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If we could raise just £1 per horse in the UK it would pay for our research for several years !

Coming Soon - Giant Survey !

We aren't after your personal information but we want to know about your "real world" experiences with Laminitis £amp; Cushings.

What worked for you & what didn't ?

We also want to know if you've never had any Laminitis problems.

We are looking for what there is in common, what's different, what works, what doesn't, treatments, successes, failures and burning questions.

The survey isn't quite ready yet but if you would like to help please drop us an email and we will send contact you as soon as the survey is ready. (we won't give your email address to anyone else or use it for marketing).

Laminitis - Nutrition & Poison !

There's no doubt that having a healthy horse with an acceptable weight and a healthy diet is a good idea, but do you know whether or not your horse is getting all the vitamins and minerals it needs ?

Are you wasting loads of money on dietary supplements you really don't need and which could be taxing your horses' health just to get rid of them from the body ?

Did you know that some heavy metals and other toxic agents can accumulate in the body without your knowing until one day they cause a serious problem ? There is new evidence to suggest a possible link between heavy metal toxicology, laminitis and Cushings.

We can now offer a trace elements, minerals and toxicology analysis from a small sample of your horses' hair taken from mane or tail. The report is done by a leading laboratory and will give you detailed information on your horses' metabolic type, performance indexes, mutritional mineral status and toxic metal loadings.

It's takes 4-5 weeks and only costs £99 including the lab fees, report and our recommendations.

About Laminitis

Laminitis is a crippling and extremely painful condition affecting horses’ feet. The tissue which connects the hoof to the bone inside becomes inflamed and the hoof can start to tear off with catastrophic results.  It can press on, deform or even break right through the sole of the foot and in the worst cases, without prompt and proper treatment whole hoof can become detached or permanently deformed.

Once started, it is difficult and time consuming to heal and often leads to euthanasia. Pain management is a big issue. The hoof is equivalent to a human’s finger or toe nail, so imagine what it would be like to have that tearing off and having to walk on it.

The treatment of laminitis often involves a Vet, Farrier and a great deal of time and effort from the horse’s owner. Sometimes a specialist (or remedial) Farrier and additional care professionals are needed as well.

A surprisingly large number of horses are afflicted by laminitis each year despite better knowledge of the condition. It can strike any size or breed of horse, well cared for or otherwise and is not, as commonly thought, just a problem with fat hairy ponies.

The causes of laminitis are complex, varied and not fully understood.  They fall into two main groups - systemic whereby the inflammation starts as a result of a reaction within the body, and mechanical which included external causes such as concussion from hard ground or from external injury. Symptoms vary from the very obvious acute ones to the extremely subtle and chronic. The latter are often missed completely or thought to be other problems.

Information

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