Preventative Medicine Key to Keeping Horses Healthy
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Preventative Medicine Key to Keeping Horses Healthy

With media headlines warning that West Nile Virus is striking harder this year, horse owners are taking preventative measures to protect the animals they love.

Of course, the potentially deadly virus is not the only threat to horse health. Worms, ulcers and a myriad of other issues seek to plague our equine friends. 1-800-PetMeds.com carries both prescription and over-the-counter horse health products to prevent and combat health concerns.

As all veterinarians recommend: The key to horse health is preventing problems before they begin. This is easy to do if you purchase vaccines, wormers, and ulcer preventatives from 1-800-PetMeds. Of course, the cost of equine medications can be high because of the sheer size of the horse, but 1-800-PetMeds offers the lowest prices, making it affordable to keep your horse healthy.

1-800-PetMeds is America’s largest pet pharmacy. Operated by entrepreneurs with a passion for animals, the online store offers low prices and focuses on selling only the best-performing among the many thousands of available health products on the market.

Unlike other online pet stores that focus exclusively on small animals, 1-800-PetMeds caters to dogs, cats and horses, truly making it a one-stop shop for all the pet lover’s pet health needs. Equestrians enjoy a special section dedicated to horse medications and resources, including helpful product comments from other shoppers in the 1-800-PetMeds community. In addition, information on the diagnosis and treatment of equine problems—lameness, ulcers, worms, and West Nile Virus—is provided for horse guardians at www.PetHealth101.com.

Addressing a critical need for horses, 1-800-PetMeds offers a line of products to vaccinate against the West Nile Virus, which has infected more than 22,000 horses since it entered into the U.S. a few years ago. Signs and symptoms include fever, ataxia, head tilt, blindness and stiff or flaccid muscles. 1-800-PetMeds also offers products like Endure Fly Spray to repel mosquitoes that carry West Nile Virus and West Nile Innovator, a vaccine to help horses develop immunity to the viral infection.

Beyond West Nile virus, more than 150 parasites infect horses through soil, water and flies. These parasites can cause anemia, colic, coughing, wheezing, poor hair coat, and poor performance. 1-800-PetMeds offers economical choices for horse dewormers, along with practical advice on when and how frequently to use the products. For example, adult horses should be dewormed four to six times a year, depending on factors such as age,  climate, and number of horses sharing the same pasture.

Another critical topic is the potentially devastating equine lameness. Lameness is mild to severe loss of the ability to move normally. It can be caused by problems in bones, muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, the brain, circulation, and metabolism. But the majority of lameness problems occur in the foot. 1-800-PetMeds offers affordable prices on injectable medications, oral tablets and topical remedies to treat joints. Products that help prevent lameness are also available.

Work done with racehorses has shown that if you protect the horse’s joints before you take them on runs or put them through serious training programs, then if they do injure themselves the injury will not be as severe as would otherwise occur. The same is also true of ulcers. If you give your horse ulcer prevention treatment, then you are ahead of the game in terms of comfort and cost because it’s much more expensive to care for the horse once a serious problem has developed.

1-800-PetMeds has a full line of equine products to keep horses healthy, from bone and joint, to dental and digestive, to various vaccinations. America’s largest pet pharmacy also offers the best values and highest quality horse grooming products, including odor control, fly control, and shampoos and conditioners. 1-800-PetMeds also carries prescription medications to help horses combat issues such as allergies, infections, fungi, arthritis, eye, ears and throat maladies, and urinary tract disorders.

1-800-PetMeds evaluates research behind all products and does not jump on fads. Consumers can feel confident they are receiving the best products for horses at the best prices.

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