ACUTE DIARRHEA IN HORSES WITH SPECIAL REG ARD TO SALMONELLOSIS AND TYPHLOCOLITIS

Casuistics of 200 patients with acute diarrhea (72 horses with salmone llosis, 55 horses with typhlocolitis, 73 horses with unspecific diarrh ea) have been analyzed. It was shown, that horses with salmonellosis h ave been fallen ill with a primary disease for a longer periode of tim e before the beginning of diarrhea than those with typhlocolitis and t hat in cases of salmonellosis antibiotics very often were used during the preliminary treatment. Frequently a primary illnes of the colon wa s seen with typhlocolitis. Besides the frequent use of butylscopolamin during the pretreatment was noticed. The clinical and laboratory para meters showed many differences between the three groups of patients as well as a dependency on the course of healing. Particulary it was imp ortant, that horses with salmonellosis had fever and a leukopenia at t he beginning of diarrhea, while in horses with typhlocolitis a leukope nia without fever at the beginning of diarrhea was seen, whereas fever only appeared a few days later in moribund patients. Finally an evalu ation of the therapies was carried out.