I’m looking at this one… http://www.bigdweb.com/Nebulizer-Unit-Complete/productinfo/9978/#creviews
Does anyone have any experience with it? Any complaints? Praise? Recommendations?
Thanks!
I’ve seen one in use although I haven’t used one personally. I just talked to the person who used this one and they said it worked amazingly well!! It is this one:
She said she also used it in conjunction with Silver Solution which is good for their respiratory system. Their horse had Inflammatory Airway Disease and has not had an episode since. I remember them walking their horse up and down the aisle way with it on and the horse was perfectly content, not bothered with it on at all.
Hope this helps some, feel free to contact me if you want more info and I’ll see what I can find out!http://equisilver.com/cms/
Hi LoriW,
Thanks for the reply. I ordered the Hawthorn nebulizer yesterday along with the Silver Solution. The one you linked is $1K, a bit over of my budget. Hopefully the the one I ordered will work as well. It should be here today. I’m anxious to try it on him.
Glad to hear your friend’s horse has done so well with the treatments. Fingers crossed that mine responds just as well! 
Could you ask your friend how often they do the treatments? Every other day?
Just asked - will be back with a reply as soon as I get the answer!
I use this people nebulizer, with liquid Fluticasone. My vet writes me an Rx for the Fluticasone, which comes in a bottle for people. I also have an Rx for clembuterol, which comes in convenient little nebulizer packets. But he does best with just the fluticasone. Clenbuterol is pretty strong stuff.
It is cheap, I think about $80 bucks, and compact and quiet. Truly portable – battery operated. My horse will let me hold the outlet cup right up into his nostril and he has learned to suck up the vapor. I do one nostril while I watch him take 4 - 5 deep breaths, then I trade nostrils. I repeat, trading nostrils, for 5 - 10 minutes while I am tacking up (a matter of convenience). The fluticasone is long acting and maintenance type of medication, so I probably don’t see results that ride, but I would the next ride.
However, I am interested in just the nebulizer bucket in the first link, without the other equipment. I may order since it is so inexpensive and see if my nebulizer will hook into it.
I heard back and she said at first per vet’s orders it was 2x a day and after that whenever he had an issue (per the equisilver rep) it was 25cc of Equisilver 3-4x per week for the cough. I hope that helps some!
An update, today is day 3 of 2x a day treatment with the equisilver. He did have 1 treatment on Saturday, and I rode him that day, and he was 'meh. Still having some breathing issues after trotting/cantering (but better than before the antibiotics). Yesterday I rode him and he was clearly feeling VERY good. I didn’t get to canter much because of the ground conditions but if the squealing, leaping and playing are any indication, he’s definitely on the mend. Vet is back tomorrow so we’ll see how his lungs are sounding. Fingers crossed.
Hi I know it’s been 2 years but I searched the forums for equisilver and this was all I could find. I just bought a bottle of equisilver respiratory solution. To see if it will help maintain a 28 year old 14.2hh cob that’s pretty retired. He just finished a week of nebulizer with atrovent. How did the equisilver on nebulizer work for you and how often do you use it /dose?
They don’t have much written on the bottle or website for instructions. Will any horse nebulizer do? Thinking to use the same one we used for the atrovent.
I stopped using the equisilver after a vet told me about a bunch of horses who got sick from it being added into the nebulizer. I think he said it was a group of AQHA show horses??? Anyway, now I just either use straight distilled water or add 1 cc of injectable dex into about 4 cups of distilled water. That seems to be working very well for my horse. When it’s not enough I give him a round of dex IM and if that isn’t enough we move to ventipulmin (Chlembutorol (sp???)) for a few days. Hope you find a program that works for your guy!
The equine specialist who treated W for RAO said it was his opinion that ventipulmin was an alternative to a nebulizer --that both achieved the same thing for RAO --open the airway. But tidy rabbit and quarian, after being diagnosed by two vets as having chronic -will-never-be-better RAO --W as of yesterday, is symptom free. Vet told me not to get my hopes up too much --once he starts eating hay, he may relapse --but he’s been off all meds for 5 weeks --and is working normally with normal respiration an heart rate. How did I cure my horse? I bought another horse. As soon as I did that, W was just fine. I think it was a plot on his part to get me to buy a new horse so he didn’t have to work so hard!
