Hyperlipemia / Fatty Liver

Veterinary care required

This condition belongs in veterinary diagnosis and treatment. Compounds are at most supportive.

Priority · vet & management

Hyperlipemia is an EMERGENCY — with inappetence and listlessness (especially in pony/donkey) call the vet immediately. Diagnosis (blood triglycerides) and therapy (energy supply, infusions, possibly insulin/heparin, treating the underlying disease) belong solely in veterinary hands. Important: never crash-starve overweight ponies/donkeys.

Possible causes

• · negative energy balance due to anorexia/feed refusal
• · stress, transport, pain or concurrent illness
• · overweight as a risk factor (a lot of mobilisable fat)
• · increased demand in late pregnancy and lactation
• · donkeys/ponies/miniature horses especially predisposed

Supportive compounds · supplementary feed, not medication

Prevention

In ponies/donkeys diet only slowly and never as a starvation cure, minimise stress in risk phases (pregnancy, lactation, transport) and counteract loss of appetite early with veterinary help.

Equiterna's take

Equiterna keeps hyperlipaemia strictly emergency- and vet-centred — compounds at most concern the recovery phase, never the acute metabolic derailment.