Bee Venom for Horses

Over the last few years powerful active ingredient melittin from bee venom has emerged as an effective and easy alternative therapy for horses with arthritis and muscle and joint inflammation.

The development of melittin from bee venom as a dietary supplement has greatly simplified its use, and since 1999 thousands of horses have found a new lease of life and freedom from debilitating joint pain with this new category of bee venom products.

Six years of use with high performance horses in the New Zealand racing and equestrian eventing fields has proven it does. Increasingly horse owners - whether they are working with thoroughbreds or easing the last years for a well loved family pony - are finding just how useful bee venom can be as an alternative therapy for arthritis in horses.

Once horse owners discover Happy Families Honeybalm for Pets dietary supplement and BV Relief topically applied cream, they see such a big difference in their horse's movement and general mood they don't want to stop using it.

Horse physiotherapist Claire McGowan runs a very busy practice working with high performance horses - mainly thoroughbred racers, but with some eventing horses included in her clientele. Over the last six years Claire has extensively used Honeybalm for Pets, a New Zealand honey with melittin from bee venom and a topically applied bee venom cream, BV Relief as a natural alternative to steroidal products banned by the racing conference.

Claire's treatment regime sometimes combines Honeybalm honey - taken as a dietary supplement with dry feed - with BV Relief topical cream, and sometimes she prefers to use just one or the other. Claire and other horse owners she works with have found a good success rate with the natural bee venom alternative.

Says Claire: "The great thing about bee venom is that it raises natural cortisol levels in the horse's blood, but you are not administering synthetic cortisol and so it is not a problem with pre-race and mid-event testing. "We have had horses blood tested many times when they were on bee venom treatment and we have never had a problem with it. Because it works naturally through the horse's own body it does not show up as a steroidal drug or synthetic cortisol."

Claire has seen remarkable results, and describes it as "a great natural alternative to steroids."

Happy Families has combined traditional bee sting therapy (apitherapy) with modern research to produce a new category of products for arthritis in horses taken as a dietary supplement in honey as Honeybalm For Pets or BV Relief cream which is applied to sore joints and muscles.

Honeybalm For Pets combines pure New Zealand honey with powerful active ingredient melittin from bee venom and deep sea fish oil containing Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids for joint health.

BV Relief is a smooth topical cream containing powerful active ingredient melittin from bee venom, emu oil and aloe vera applied directly to sore joints and muscles. The potent properties of melittin in bee venom are carried deep into muscle tissue by emu oil while soothing aloe vera keeps the skin cool and soft.

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Warning: Happy Families bee venom products have not been evaluated under Veterinary Medicines regulations for analgesic and anti inflammatory effects. Diagnosis of medical conditions should be made by a professional. Avoid use where there is a clear history of hypersensitivity or allergic reactions to bee stings. If the animal is on a medication for a cardiovascular condition or hypertension consult your doctor before use. Not suitable for young animals (under 12 months) or for pregnant or lactating females.