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Digestive System /
Intestinal Diseases in Horses and Foals /
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Miscellaneous Causes of Diarrhea in Horses /

OTHER TOPICS IN THIS CHAPTER

Intestinal Diseases in Horses and Foals
Overview of Intestinal Diseases in Horses and Foals
Diarrheal Disease in Horses
Salmonellosis in Horses
Potomac Horse Fever
Clostridia-associated Enterocolitis in Horses
Colitis-X in Horses
Coronavirus in Horses
Parasitism (Gastrointestinal) in Horses
Sand Enterocolopathy in Horses
Recurrent Diarrhea in Horses
Infiltrative Colonic Disease in Horses
Miscellaneous Causes of Diarrhea in Horses
Foal Heat Diarrhea
Bacterial Diarrhea in Foals
Viral Diarrhea in Foals
Miscellaneous Causes of Diarrhea in Foals
Weight Loss and Hypoproteinemia
Gastrointestinal Neoplasia in Horses
Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Horses
NSAID Toxicosis in Horses
Small-intestinal Fibrosis in Horses

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Digestive System
In all animals, malassimilation refers to an impaired ability of the gastrointestinal tract to provide nutrients to the body because of maldigestion or malabsorption. Maldigestion occurs when food cannot be properly broken down within the intestinal lumen. Malabsorption occurs when nutrients fail to pass from the intestinal lumen into the blood. Which of the following diseases is most likely to result in maldigestion?

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Miscellaneous Causes of Diarrhea in Horses

By

Allison J. Stewart

, BVSC (Hons), MS, DACVIM-LA, DACVECC, The University of Queensland

Last full review/revision Sep 2013 | Content last modified Sep 2013

Other causes of diarrhea or semiformed to watery feces in horses include grain overload, thromboembolic disease of the colon, peritonitis, antibiotic treatment, renal failure, numerous toxicoses (eg, blister beetles [cantharidin], salt poisoning, slaframine, amitraz, propylene glycol, phosphorus, selenium, nicotine, reserpine, arsenic, mercury, monensin, organophosphates, oleander, Japanese yew, castor bean, avocado, thorn apple, potatoes, heath, algae, acorn or oak, Hypericum, corn cockle, mycotoxicoses, horse tail [scouring rush]), hyperlipidosis, and resolving impaction of the large intestine after treatment with oral cathartics such as magnesium sulfate.

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