Has anyone used this? My horse has severe pyloric ulcers. I was told by a friend that this really helped their horse.
For severe ulcers it might be worth going with gastrogard.
She is on GG, misoprostil and sucralfate.
Okay I am sorry! I hope her ulcers heal! Ulcers can be so frustrating!
Thank you . Me too…
I’ve heard great things about assure guard. Do you mean as an ongoing supplement after the ulcers heal or just to support while treating with GG? AG has a very good colic financial support when using their product, fyi.
Pyloric ulcers are a Beotch…if you search my posts you’ll see my battle with them for over a year and a half! Check with your vet before changing anything, but as an extra supplement it may not hurt! What eventually cleared my horses pyloric area was antibiotics…it was a final last ditch effort that we did not expect to work but they did dry up enough although he had to stay on them for over 3 months. As I said, it’s not a normal, recognized treatment but it was so bad we were actually starting to seriously talk euthanasia and did this as a last ditch (antibiotics with such severe ulcers can cause more problems than they can help so that’s how dire it was)! He did amazingly make a seemingly full recovery and 4 years later lives on a daily dose of generic omeprazole and always has hay front of him…I’m lucky my barn is so great at managing special diets!
My sincere hope you find something to help, pyloric ulcers are hard!
Eclipse, we dealt with pyloric ulcers 4-5 years ago after a bout with Potomac Horse Fever (horse was vaccinated). 2 tubes/day GG, sucralfate, metronidazole, minocycline for a month. Ulcers were better, but not by much. Finally with GG and misoprostol they were healed…barely. Fast forward to now. Ulcers again…biopsy showed nothing so here we go again. This time though she’s on Gastrogard sucralfate and misoprostol for 6 weeks until we scope again. I’m looking for something, anything To help and maybe keep these things from coming back in addition to management. I recently heard that sweet potatoes were good for this.
I should also add that I’ve managed this horse very well since her ulcers appeared the first time. I basically am a slave to this horse but I moved her in December to a training facility and although she’s well managed there I think the stress triggered it again. It’s all a work in progress. Sometimes I think she just needs to go live out somewhere 24/7 and never be ridden again but that’s not why I have her.
Having struggled with this with my horse I keep him on a low dose of daily gastrogard for prevention. In a study I recently read a low dose of omezaprole does tend to prevent ulcers from recurring. WSU and other internal medicine specialists recommended 1/4 tube of gastrogard daily . But there is a pharmacy in Canada which dose a pretty good liquid form of omezaprole which seems to keeps the ulcers from returning. They may ship to the US with a prescription https://www.svprx.ca/svprx/index.aspx I use gastrogard but summits product works pretty good for prevention.
I had my horse scoped for ulcers, and we only found wall thickening–no active ulcers. Vets did 30 days of GG just in case, and then told me to keep this horse on Assure Guard Gold long term. I have done so. No recurrence of ulcer symptoms. It is great for the hindgut also because of the yeast and psyllium. RelyneGI was also suggested by the vet team, so I have him on both.
i used it in combination with ulcerguard and got nowhere. i did the best with misoprostol for pyloric ulcers. but every horse is different.
The glandular/pyloric ulcers are a lot more stubborn to resolve than the “regular” stomach ulcers, and often take something beyond just GG. Even 60 days of GG and misoprostol didn’t fully resolve the glandular ulcers in my horse.
@Maude there is an injectible form of omeprazole sold through BET that has promising research results for the glandular/pyloric ulcers. It’s a weekly injection, cheaper than GG, and certainly cheaper than the GG/misoprostol/anything else combo. When GG and misoprostol didn’t get it done for my horse (and in fact he had some slight regression when they had us taper off the doses), we switched to this plus added SmartGut Ultra and Purina Outlast to his feed program. Look at the research on the SmartGut Ultra however, it showed results that leveled off so I don’t know that I’ll be forking over the $$ for that one on a longer term basis!
It’s so frustrating how hard they are to get rid of and how quickly they can flare!
Uggg, my heart goes out to you both! It’s my nightmare that they come back again!
Sorry you are in this situation…LISTEN TO YOUR VET NOT YOUR FRIEND.
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Yup. Under a vets care. Just looking for something to add in the future.
Is /pyloric and glandular ulcers The same thing? In 2017 my horse had moderate glandular ulcers.I did seven weeks of gastrogard, 2 weeks 1/2 tube 1/4 tube daily after that. He was at a different vet clinic getting a leg injury treated he got the follow up scope. His stomach was completely clean but this was a different internal medicine specialist him Whom didn’t think she needed To wean the gastrogard. She had a lot of confidence in this product relyne G.I. From Haygard so much that she was willing to do a follow up scope no charge (since I was worried). Upon the follow up scope he had the start of ulcers she said they weren’t Even true ulcers at the time but almost. I put them back on a full tube of Gastrogard even though he had zero clinical signs of ulcers he actually looked fabulous. But I gave him osphos and I suspect he had adverse effects I ended up treating him for 60 days straight gastrogard simply because I was still concerned after the initial 30 days I had him scoped after two months and a superficial grade one ulcer of the pyloric. The internal medicine specialist said he looked healthy and we did a few more weeks of Gastro guard and weaned the dose but he does get the lowest dose daily.
We have battled a pyloric ulcer that eventually went away but then turned into polyps. Did 6 months of misoprostal. Have not yet rescoped for various reasons (hope to do so soon) but in the meantime have tried ulceraser based on recommendation of someone on board here. Initial results seem promising.
