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Old 09-06-2012, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Coup Verville View Post
A question regarding colitis...is this a sickness or is it more of an ongoing condition? More specifically, if he does somehow make it through all of this, is that the end of it? Or, is it something he will battle throughout his life?
More of a sickness that should be over if he wins the fight.

Horses have a part of their large intestine which is like humans (where we get colitis), but also an additional part we don't have where fermentation and some other things take place. That's where horses get colitis - think of a damaged, leaking, infected large bowel. Different than human colitis.
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