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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio, again, we are delighted to have Dr. Nicola Menzies, Gow, who is one of our readers in Equine Medicine here at the RVC, and we thought

we'd have a brief discussion if that's possible on Laminitis.

So thank you, Nicola, for joining us.

Thank you very much. So I suppose maybe the first question, and bear in mind, I'm more of a

small animal vet, well, actually just a small animal bit. And it would be, see, if you were asked to

define a laminitis, what are we actually sort of talking about? So we're talking about a disease of the

horse's feet and it can affect all of the feet or just one foot or any combination of feet.

And it's been recently decided that there are three different types of laminitis that occur

under very different circumstances.

So the first is what's called sepsis associated laminitis.

So that's when the horse is sick for any reason.

So usually a severe gastrointestinal disease.

So it might be that they've got a bad colitis or diarrhea.

They've got a colic, so abdominal pain that has got an underlying surgical lesion.

So they need surgery to fix the underlying problem.

And then because then the animal is sick after that, they're at an increased risk of it getting laminitis.

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