In many cases of laminitis which have become chronic it is found that the toe of the foot turns up; that the heels are longer than natural; while the hoof near the coronary band is circled with ridges like the horn of a ram.
The exciting causes of laminitis are many and varied.
A rapid development of sidebones is one of the complications, or, perhaps better, a sequel of laminitis not often met with in practice.
The coronet remains hot and sensitive and somewhat thickened after the laminitis subsides, and a little lameness is present.
Chronic laminitisis a term used by many to designate any of the sequelæ of the acute and subacute forms of this disease.
This is the condition in the many so-called cases of laminitis which recover in from 24 to 48 hours.
Almost all the older authorities were agreed that metastatic laminitis is a reality.
The practitioner who allows the acute symptoms of the laminitis to mislead him, simply because their severity has overshadowed those of the primary disease, may lose his case through unguarded subsequent treatment.
Laminitis ("founder") is a frequent sequel of superpurgation and is to be guarded against by removing the shoes and standing the horse on moist sawdust or some similar bedding.
It is not a complication of laminitis only, for it is seen under other conditions.
This is the term that Williams applies to that serious complication of laminitis in which not only the laminæ, but the periosteum membrane covering the bone and coffin bone also are subjects of the inflammatory process.
Laminitis is characterized by a congregation of symptoms so well marked as scarcely to be misinterpreted by the most casual observer.
Careful nursing may prevent the occurrence oflaminitis as a complication of other diseases.
The causes of laminitis are overfeeding, sudden changes in the feed, drinking a large quantity of water when the animal is overheated, overexertion, exhaustion and chilling of the body by standing the animal in a cold draft.
Acute laminitis may respond to prompt, careful treatment in from ten to fourteen days.
The same line of treatment as recommended for the horse may be used for laminitis in cattle.
Stockmen frequently use a classification for laminitis based on the causes.
One attack of laminitis may predispose the animal to a second attack.
Laminitis denotes an active inflammation of the sensitive structures within the wall of the hoof, which in severe cases may result in suppuration and the loss of one or more claws.
Laminitis in cattle may be caused by overfeeding, overheating, continued standing without exercise on a stone or cement floor without sufficient bedding, or by driving long distances over rough or stony soil.
Further, if weight is supported entirely by the unaffected member, laminitis may supervene if a sling is not used.
Since they usually bear weight upon the affected member, there is no danger of laminitis resulting.
Cochran of New York City has attained unusual success in cases of chronic laminitis with dropped sole by the use of a specially designed shoe.
Furthermore, in laminitis there is an elevation of the temperature, an almost invariable indication for aconitin.
A peculiar characteristic position is assumed in acute laminitis of the fore feet.
Much depends upon the concomitant disturbances (or causes if one is justified in referring to them as such) as to the manner in which laminitis is to be treated.
Causes may well be grouped, however, and a more definite understanding of laminitis is possible as a result.
Chronic laminitis as it occurs following acute attacks which have resulted in structural changes of the foot, present the same symptoms just described and, in addition, the peculiar alterations in structure exist.
In this connection, Campbell says: The early and vigorous administration of aconitin inlaminitis to its full physiological effect, is more logical.
Age in no way influences the occurrence of laminitis and the general condition of an animal with regard to its vigor or state of flesh has no apparent influence toward predisposing horses to this ailment.
If laminitis is due chiefly to an autointoxication, good and sufficient reason for the administration of alum can be shown based upon its known physiological action.
He gives it as his opinion that even laminitis has occurred as a result of the streptococcus-equi.
A good bed for the horse with laminitis is peat-moss mixed with short straw.
ACUTE Acute Laminitis Definition Causes Symptoms Pathological Anatomy Complications Diagnosis and Prognosis Treatment Broad's Treatment forLaminitis Smith's Operation for Laminitis B.
In a moderate case, carefully treated, laminitis terminates at the end of three or four days in resolution.
For an example of rarefactive ostitis as met with in cases of disease of the feet, we refer the reader to laminitis (see Fig.
Congestion of the laminal blood-vessels and consequent laminitis occurs when animals are made to maintain a standing position for prolonged periods, as, for instance, when making sea voyages.
In neither case, however, can the resulting mischief be closely compared with the lesions attending an attack of laminitis proper, a disease which appears to have an almost specific cause, and to run a course peculiarly its own.
It is the laminitis following feeding on new oats that has caused us to apply to the food the adjective 'irritating.
Strange to say, though, in many cases of laminitis the animal persists in maintaining a standing posture.
Another most fruitful cause of laminitis is a severe and continued inflammatory condition of the system elsewhere.
Chronic laminitis more often than not is a sequel to the acute form we have just described.
In this particular instance it is demonstrated by the laminitis and lymphangitis of the previously sound limb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laminitis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
