SECONDARY SWEAT QUESTION

["Tracey" <tracey@tbt.co.za>]

This is an email from a friend whose horse develops secondary sweat.
Thought I'd send it on for comment>



>I found this paragraph in an article on spinal cord disease on the HA site.
>This is also quite interesting, as I was wondering if Bellini's shoulders
>were part of the head-pulling down to the ground syndrome whilst ridden -
>and he sweats up badly on the right shoulder when he is doing his patchy
>bit.   So, if I understand this properly, because the shoulder is all
>connected to the spine, etc. by bone and muscle, there could be sympathetic
>sweating.  I'm not at home, so don't have my dictionaries - I don't think
he
>has a spinal cord lesion per se, but there is definitely something not
right
>somewhere, even if minor.
>
>
>Sweating
>Identifying the presence of welldelineated regions of cervical and thoracic
>sweating can be useful in localizing a spinal cord lesion. Such areas can
>represent focal sympathetic denervation (decentralization) of the
>vasculature in the skin, resulting in increased circulating epinephrin
>stimulating sweat glands. However, care must be taken in interpreting
patchy
>sweating that is not well delineated. Very asymmetrical patchy sweating can
>occur in horses that are excited or distressed, particularly when in a
>draughty trailer or stall, without a sympathetic lesion being present
>