Managing Medications

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About Managing Medications

Managing medications when your horse is sick can be very confronting and downright scary. This course takes you through the basics of managing medications for your horse.

In this Managing Medications Module You will learn:
How to safely store medications
How to give a horse an injection
How to give eye drops and ointments
How to give your horse pastes and powders
Best of all it will help you to be far more confident in caring for your horse when he is sick or injured.

3 Lessons

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Amanda takes you through the dos and don’ts of giving injections with some great tips for keeping everything calm and simple

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Learn how to prepare to give your horse an intramuscular injection. From where is the best place to give it, through to some practical advice for making the whole process as painless as possible for everyone.

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Watch Amanda demonstrate preparing the drugs and giving an intramuscular injection to a horse in the correct way. Learn what to look out for, some of the dangers of some drugs if given the wrong way and some hazards if not given correctly.

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If not managed well eye injuries can lead to blindness or the loss of your horse’s eye. In this lesson, Amanda takes you through common medications you might be using and gives you some tips on the best most “friendly” way to administer them to your horse.

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Managing eye issues can often lead to the insertion of an SPL tube. Watch and listen as Amanda talks about why this happens and how to manage them.

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Amanda takes you through the correct way to give a horse drops and ointments for their eyes.

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You often have to give your horse pastes etc. into their mouths. Watch as Amanda shows you the best way to give these to your horse with a minimum of fuss for everyone.

About the Teacher

Amanda Edwards

Amanda Edwards has been around horses all of her life and has been caring for sick and injured horses through her Equine Recovery Care Clinic for over 10 years.The Equine Recovery Care Clinic focuses on getting horses well again following an acute injury or illness. After establishing face to face workshops to teach others the basics of caring for horses people soon requested online access so here they are.

Amanda Edwards has been around horses all of her life and has been caring for sick and injured horses through her Equine Recovery Care Clinic for over 10 years.The Equine Recovery Care Clinic focuses on getting horses well again following an acute injury or illness. After establishing face to face workshops to teach others the basics of caring for horses people soon requested online access so here they are.

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