Colomin – Promotes Liver Detoxification.

Colomins formula has a cleansing effect when the liver is burdened by toxic metabolic wastes and the active ingredients stimulate the detoxification.
Does your horse have symptoms of overtraining?

• Does your horse have symptoms of overtraining?
• Does your horse have lameness on right side?
• Does your horse suffer from problems with it’s gut?

The toxic remains may show up as high level whites, high monocytes, and the horse shows signs of “overtraining”.

Lameness and lagged movement patterns in the right hindquarter, not due to injury, may originate from poor detoxification of the liver.

It has a healing effect on inflammation in knees, tendons, pasterns and navicular bursitis.

The active ingredients in Colomin have a soothing effect on the lining of the digestive tract when it has been irritated by diarrhea and will also help alleviate conditions such as colic and inflammation of the gut.

The active ingredients in Colomin also eases skin rashes.

Recommended treatment for horses being fed oil

It is not just large amounts of fat/oil that makes the horse ill, the quality will also play a very important role. Fat and oil is added for several reasons in processed feeds, for example to reduce dust, as a lubricant during the manufacturing process, as a binding agent in pelleted feeds, to maintain the proper mix of ingredients during the manufacturing process, as a carrier of fat-soluble vitamins and to keep the coat shiny.

Apart from all the oil/fat the horse will ingest via these types of feeds it is also common that the horses’ are fed oil as a supplement!

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This is how the body functions

Liver and Gall
Poisoning from fodder and the problems and symptoms it causes in the liver and gall. The liver works as a “filter” in a closed system, (the vascular system). The ”filter” separates undesirable by-products from the blood. The auxiliary system filters poisonous by-products from the metabolic process. The kidneys then handle the water-soluble toxins and the liver generates the gall that enables the decomposition of fat-soluble toxins.

Gall is constantly released in the duodenum because the horse lacks a gall bladder. The natural food for horses is not rich in fat; therefore the gall that is produced for a horse is less concentrated compared to the human gall. Today’s manipulated foods contain several questionable combinations. Therefore, more substances than what are considered natural become collected in the ”filter” (liver). The liver and gall affect muscle groups such as chest, shoulders and hip-muscles. These symptoms are easy to find in the rear right leg of the horse.

Large intestine
The large intestine is the end station for most solid waste products and fatty-soluble toxins. If the “detoxification” process doesn’t function properly in the intestines, the blood will absorb the toxins and return them to the liver.

The “filter function” of the liver is decreased when the liver becomes “filled up”. Because of this, the toxins are returned back to the blood and redistributed into the body. The body protects the vital organs by letting blood absorb the toxins and deposit them into tissue such as skin, muscles, bursas and fat. The toxins actually cause more pain than they do harm. These painful symptoms may affect the entire right side of the horse continuing down through the hip and leg.

The equine hindgut – a “war zone”

The increased use of oil in equine feeds will also affect the hindgut fermentation negatively. This will create a disturbance of the intestinal flora, which will cause an immune defence reaction; the antibodies situated in the mucous membranes of the digestive tract will react.

These antibodies serve as “guards” and react when toxic materials from feed enter the digestive tract. The antibodies will then try to neutralize and, above all, stop the toxins from being absorbed into the blood stream.

Improper feeds create stress on the system that allows impure and toxic substances, and partly undigested feed stuff to enter the blood stream. This will increase the strain on liver and kidneys, which have to eliminate them. The toxins can travel, with the blood, between colon and liver 6-7 times.

The extra strain will also irritate the intestine walls and mucous membranes. Colic, diarrhea and other digestive disorders are common symptoms of feed strain. One can say that the hindgut has become a “war zone”.

Feed poisoning can be compared to a missile that is able to hit all over the “physical map” – any surface, part and system of the body can be targeted.

Horses are very susceptible to colic or death from toxic materials in the feed since the digestive tract is not able to sufficiently detoxify materials before they reach the small intestine. Therefore, it is very important not to feed horses mouldy or spoiled feeds.

Parasite Control
Frequent deworming of horses will negatively affect both the gastric health, the intestinal flora of the digestive tract as well as the horse’s general condition.

From the veterinarians it come reports about the side effects of wormers. Used very 6 weeks over a number of years these side effects can damage the horses. Read through the warnings on the wormers you are using and discuss with your vet what steps are best to take to limit the side effects.

Most vets today tell their customers to be careful with wormers because of the serious side effects and the resistant worms. Over dosages is very common because the chemicals in the wormers stores in the fat cells from where they very slowly relives and breaks down in the liver to smaller fat absorbs metabolic and breaks down. It takes 3 months for a healthy liver to break down and detoxify the body from wormers.

To send manure for analysis is one way to not use wormers more then needed.

The active ingredients in Colomin will detoxify the liver and repair the damage in the intestinal flora.