Home Current News News Archive Shop/Advertise Ridecamp Classified Events Learn/AERC
Endurance.Net Home Ridecamp Archives
ridecamp@endurance.net
[Archives Index]   [Date Index]   [Thread Index]   [Author Index]   [Subject Index]

[RC] Jugging - k s swigart

Darolyn Butler said:


So while we're on the subject, let me share this with you newbies & oldsters
too:   I will jug (even if it costs me), if I think the horse may be fairly
dehydrated.  Helps them bounce back quicker, feel better, and possible avert
some late appearing toxicity.  We've had horses finish apparently fine, then
the next morning find elevated respiration/heartbeat, etc. & well on the way
to a laminitis episode.  Fluids following the race may have made the
difference.  Frankly, I can't encourage riders enough to jug after any ride
if  you have any doubts at all about the metabolic health of your horse.  


I may be wrong about this, but it is my understanding from
an assortment of vets that every time you do jugular IV
fluids on a horse you risk scarring and permanent blockage
of the jugular vein (and when my horse had IV fluids after
20 MT last year my vet made a point of NOT drawing blood
from that side of her neck because the IV had made that vein
more "fragile" and he didn't want to be messing with it).

So, unless I have misunderstood the vets that I have spoken
with (a possibility), there is no way in hell I am going to
routinely administer IV fluids to my horse...just to be
safe.  Because the more often you do it, the more likely you
are to end up with a horse that has a permanently blocked
jugular vein (horses do have two of them, so it isn't the
end of the world if one becomes blocked, but it certainly
isn't something that I would aspire to:)).

Question to the vets out there...just how likely is it that
a jugular IV will permanently block the vein?

And even if it doesn't permanently block the vein, what is
the effect of any scarring (it seems to me that there will
be at least a little scarring every time) that occurs.

kat
Orange County, Calif.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net.
Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp
Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp

Ride Long and Ride Safe!!

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=