Digestive System and Various Disorders

1. What is an enterolith and what clinical signs are associated with it?
   
   
   
2. A two-day-old foal has milk dribbling from its nose. List the differential diagnosis for this problem.
   
   
   
3. What happens to intestinal motility when the intestinal tract becomes inflamed?
   
4. What is the most common form of colic and what is the outcome?
   
   
   
5. What is a common nondigestive disorder that occurs as a consequence of colic?
   
   
   
6. What changes in vital signs indicate that a mild colic is getting worse?
   
   
   
7. What are basic treatments for a colic that does not appear to be surgical (yet)?
   
   
   
   

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Updated November 2007
Prepared by J Atuk-Jones