Endometritis (Uterine Inflammation in the Mare)
Inflammation of the uterine lining (endometrium), often through ascending germs after breeding, foaling or with disturbed self-cleaning of the uterus. One of the most common causes of subfertility (failure to conceive) in the mare.
Veterinary care required
This condition belongs in veterinary diagnosis and treatment. Compounds are at most supportive.
Priority · vet & management
Clarification belongs in veterinary reproductive medicine: gynaecological examination, ultrasound, uterine swab (bacteriology), cytology and possibly biopsy determine cause and breeding soundness. Treatment (e.g. uterine lavage, antibiosis per antibiogram) is veterinary.
Possible causes
- · germ ascent after covering/foaling
- · impaired uterine self-cleaning (especially older mares)
- · anatomical factors (e.g. poor vulval seal)
- · deficiencies in covering hygiene
Supportive compounds · supplementary feed, not medication
Prevention
Strict covering hygiene, a veterinary breeding-soundness examination before covering and attention to anatomical risk factors in older mares lower the risk.
Equiterna's take
Equiterna treats endometritis as a purely veterinary reproduction diagnosis — supplements play no role, and cycle-/hormone-active herbs deliberately do not belong in this management.
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