Re: RC: RE: Psyllium

["Tiffany D'Virgilio" <dvirgilio@mindspring.com>]

Title: Re: RC:  RE: Psyllium

on 8/25/01 9:13 AM, Marlene Moss at marlene.moss@wcom.com wrote:

> We live in a pretty sandy area (decomposed granite) so itıs highly recommended around here to feed the horses psyllium.  Some people recommend feeding once a week and others recommend feeding for a week once a month.  We do the latter ­ my thought is that the one day may not be enough to accomplish getting the sand to pass. 

Another article...this month in Horse and Rider-this is about the fourth I have seen in the last year stating that Psyllium does absolutely nothing in getting rid of ingested sand. One of the other articles (Equus, I think) stated that they have done a study  and that the horses fed psyllium were compared to a control group and that the subsequent surgeries showed no difference. 
The H&R article says that psyllium does not aid gut motility, nor help get out the sand, but it won't hurt your horse. BTW, this issue actually has a one page article by Becky Hart on Endurance. What do you know, a mag that usually only has peanut rollers! 
Tiffany