Brooks,
I would greatly appreciate any information on treating horses with cataracts. I have a beautiful and much loved gelding that has them in both eyes from equine recurrent uveitis. He was able to see out of one until this past month, when he had yet another episode of inflammation. I treated his eyes directly with 10% DMSO diluted with ~8 ppm CS, but no Glutathione of Vit C. I also gave him oral DMSO to address the acute episode he had last month. It helped with the inflammation and drainage but did not prevent the cataract that formed in his one good eye, the other has had a cataract for over a year. He is now functionally blind and has to be kept in a small obstruction free pen with a black and white mare that he can see enough to use her as a guide. He has also memorized the pen he is in. But can not live that way long term. I fear he will injure himself or have a stress colic when I am not around to help. I am having a difficult time resolving his long term care issues. Any help would be appreciated. I have thought of the eye formula but was not sure it would help him since the cause was episodic inflammation of unknown cause, or ERU. I am working with researchers at Texas A&M University, two of the top Vet Opthamologists in the country. He was implanted with an experimental Cyclosporine Implant a year ago in his one good eye, but he has continued to have episodes and the last one was severe enough to cause a cataract in this eye, too. I know the reserachers would be interested and have even discussed the use of DMSO with another Equine opthamologist at A&M -- he said it stings them too much so they must have been using higher than 10%. None of them have mentioned resolving cataracts after they formed, only preventing them by controling the episodic inflammation. Please feel free to mail me off list if you feel this is not on topic. I have been using a CS DMSO eye spray to control inflammation during this last episode. It did help with the drainage and kept the inflammation from developing as much as previous episodes. Thanks so much and sorry for the long message. Garnet On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 00:35, Brooks Bradley wrote: > e have enjoyed quite measured success with DMSO as a major component in > protocols addressing cataracts in horses....and experimental human volunteers. > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
