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Greetings,
Welcome to the June 2003 edition of the Eye of the Storm
Equine Rescue Horse Tales. This month Nina writes more
about her "eye diet," which has helped several of
our rescue horses regain some of their sight.
We're one step closer to getting a new farm in Stow. It would
also mean that 45 acres of forest would be preserved forever,
Stow would have two more units of affordable housing, and
the town would have access to a high-capacity aquifer. We'll
keep you posted.
-Your friends at Eye of the Storm -
Eye Diet Response
Due to the amazing response to our “eye diet”
in April’s newsletter, I feel I must add a few bits
of information.
Many people from other parts of the country receive our newsletter.
If you live in an area with high concentrations of selenium
in the soil, do not give additional selenium to your horse;
just use plain vitamin E at a double dose in the opposite
feeding of the vitamin C and bioflavonoids. In other words,
if you feed E in the morning, feed C and the bios in the evening.
It is important that your horse receive both of these vitamins;
they are less effective when given together, but work very
well at opposite feedings. Selenium should be given only in
trace amounts as it is toxic when given in quantity. We have
no selenium in the soil in Massachusetts, but other parts
of the country have a lot. So check it out first!
This diet has been placed on a “blind horse”
web site at yahoo.com and whoever put it there, please add
this letter to it. I don’t want anyone poisoning their
horses!
You do not have to keep your horse on this diet for the
rest of its life. But please be patient, they don’t
regain their sight overnight. It is a long, slow, gradual
process. It may take years. It might not even work for your
horse. But it helped four of ours. Just after two months Tim’s
left pupil is responding to light and I can see through it.
The more damage that has been done, the longer it takes. So
be patient! All of these supplements are good for them and
will do them no harm. But this diet promotes and encourages
eye health.
My research comes from books about human ailments. I work
at Debra’s Natural Gourmet in West Concord, Massachusetts.
I sit in the book department and look stuff up! I treat the
horses with natural supplements and foods used to treat humans
with the same ailments. That’s how I found the cure
for Cushings disease in horses, too. I’ll tell you about
that later.
This “eye diet” is not particularly expensive,
and is non-invasive in contrast to the salves and drops put
in painful eyes. I almost got my face broken while treating
our terrified blind mustang, Taz, with eye goop. That’s
when I decided there had to be a better way. I decided never
to torture him again by forcing his eyes open to apply meds.
I figured he might just kill me the next time!
I could actually see blood vessels growing across his pupil.
This is a very bad sign. In his case, though, he responded
practically over night! Within a few days the pain and inflammation
were gone. He could hold his eyes open and didn’t squint
anymore. I believe Taz was also suffering from a vitamin E
deficiency as a very bad neurological disorder disappeared
at the same time. It’s possible this deficiency is also
responsible for failing eyesight because did Taz ever rally!
He was 28 years old at the beginning of his treatment. He
came to us almost totally blind and at age 30 he could see.
What else can I say? The eye diet worked for him and he was
very old and had eye problems for years. So don’t give
up, there’s hope. Positive thoughts and faith help,
too.
We maintain our other two horses, Ben and Fancy, whose cases
were only in the beginning stages, with vitamin E, MSM, and
Vitamin C. These have kept them going with no recurrences
for a year now. For the more serious cases, such as Tim’s,
it’s probably a good idea to keep them on it for the
rest of their lives. Please let
me know how all your eye problem horses are doing. I’d
love to know!
A girl wrote to me about her mare going blind suddenly and
walking through fences and doing other dangerous things in
her fear and confusion. It is possible this mare had an allergic
reaction to a vaccine. That is what happened to John Lyons’
horse, Bright Zip. Be aware of this danger. It is probably
more common than anyone is aware of. In fact, over vaccinating
is taking a very dangerous toll on the immune systems of our
horses, household pets, our children, and ourselves. There
are an awful lot of very strange auto-immune disorders that
lack explanation these days. More on this in the future!
Nina
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