Recurrent convulsions in a thoroughbred foal: management and treatment.
A thoroughbred foal had a convulsive attack 12 hours after birth followed by further convulsions on the 10th, 11th and 12th days after birth. It was treated successfully by medication with primidone, feeding by stomach tube and careful nursing.
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005260:Female; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy; D006736:Horses; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011324:Primidone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012008:Recurrence; D012640:Seizures / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000662:veterinary*
D011324:Primidone