I don’t have any advice on where to get it in Canada, or what to use instead of. But wanted to throw out my two cents on Biosponge. I had a filly with clostridosis last year. While that was initially the cause of her diarrhea (bloody, by the way), she continued to have diarrhea once cleared of clostridosis and sent home from the university. She was on Biosponge (among other things). My theory (take if or leave it) is that if Biosponge binds and removes bad bacteria, who’s to say it won’t bind and remove good bacteria too? I took her off Biosponge earlier than prescribed, and started her on yogurt. Her diarrhea immediately cleared up. Coincidence? Maybe. Legitimacy to my theory? Maybe. A couple other very experienced laypeople/friends agreed on the theory and refuse to use Biosponge. Didn’t mean to derail the conversation, but wanted to throw my experience with it out there. :yes:
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I don’t have any advice on where to get it in Canada, or what to use instead of. But wanted to throw out my two cents on Biosponge. I had a filly with clostridosis last year. While that was initially the cause of her diarrhea (bloody, by the way), she continued to have diarrhea once cleared of clostridosis and sent home from the university. She was on Biosponge (among other things). My theory (take if or leave it) is that if Biosponge binds and removes bad bacteria, who’s to say it won’t bind and remove good bacteria too? I took her off Biosponge earlier than prescribed, and started her on yogurt. Her diarrhea immediately cleared up. Coincidence? Maybe. Legitimacy to my theory? Maybe. A couple other very experienced laypeople/friends agreed on the theory and refuse to use Biosponge. Didn’t mean to derail the conversation, but wanted to throw my experience with it out there. :yes:[/QUOTE]
It doesn’t bind the bacteria directly, it binds the endotoxins made by the bacteria, which is what is responsible for sepsis, laminitis, and all the other badness that occurs when a horse gets colitis.
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It doesn’t bind the bacteria directly, it binds the endotoxins made by the bacteria, which is what is responsible for sepsis, laminitis, and all the other badness that occurs when a horse gets colitis.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for the explanation. I bit outside my pay grade, but it makes sense. All I know is my 5 day old filly’s diarrhea stopped when I took her off of it and put her on yogurt. Maybe it was contributing to GI irritation, maybe when I took her off of it that day coincided with the day her diarrhea was going to clear up anyways. No idea. That’s my only experience with it.
