Learn and gather some basic information on Preventable horse diseases

Horses, like humans, need special attention and care, especially in childhood periods. Care for horses is much more extravagant, because they have special needs related to food, shelter, health care and recreation. If the breeding of horses and horse industry promise large financial rewards, it is only fitting that these animals are treated with the utmost care and compassion because they are part of the family.
Horses can also be affected by life-threatening diseases that, if unattended and untreated, will surely demand that the life of the herds. Tetanus or popularly known as lockjaw is a disease caused by Clostridium tetani neurotoxins found mostly in the soil relates to the skeletal muscles. The infection generally includes the contaminated deep stab wound or umbilical cord stump on foals. Early symptoms include colicky abdominal pain, stiffness and spasms around the wound, but as the disease progresses, it is muscle spasms of the jaw and throat, making breathing difficult and eventually, the horse will go into respiratory paralysis and death from respiratory failure .
Encephalomyelitis is closed from mosquitoes, which generally affects the central nervous system of horses characterized by high fever for two to three days. If the inflammation in the brains happens the motor and sensory function of the animal is disturbed, such as loss of the engine and the target is characterized by compulsive walking, inability to focus and due to the loss of vision to locate . As the disease progresses, common signs of decreasing sensorium, or levels of consciousness such as drowsiness or difficulty waking from sleep. The horse seems to be unaware of the surrounding activity they prefer to sleep instead of eating. When the virus spinal cord, accompanied by symptoms corridors function is documented by staggering, weakness and muscle twitching attacks. The horse later died of respiratory paralysis or errors due to uncontrolled seizures and asphyxiation or prolonged loss of oxygen supply.
Lyme disease to humans can be caused by bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by ticks is characterized by multi-systemic diseases involving the musculoskeletal and nervous system such as arthritis pain, swelling of the tendons, ligaments and joints, behavioral changes, such as irritability and lameness. Although the disease begins gradually, but lasts as long as months, the treatment can last as long as two years. Although not fatal, late diagnosis may result in death and in particular that Lyme disease is difficult to diagnose because the symptoms most often associated with other diseases and outbreaks are often gradual and negligible.
So the key to a good prognosis and survival lies in early detection of diseases that affect horses with early and appropriate treatment. Various means for preventing the development of diseases such as vaccines, vitamins, care materials, including soaps, shampoos and powders, mosquito repellant and among others are available on the market for your horses good health coverage. When the disease strikes, it is best to check with your local veterinarian as soon as possible to alleviate suffering of your horse. As the old saying goes true that "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound cure."