Some years back in my home county a
stepfather was prosecuted for murder for making a little girl drink water as a
punishment until she died. Libby
As a matter of curiosity was the
water pumped into the horses or given by gravity feed thru a
funnel?
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I know there was fairly recently a case of a marathon runner (I believe
it was a woman) dying from water toxicity.
After reading about the two horses that consummed too much water it
made be think about something I had read on one of my dog lists. They were
discussing "water toxicity" in dogs and I guess it can happen in humans.
Maybe this was a case of water toxicity in horses.
In dogs that drink too much water (like from a swimming pool or garden
hose in play) the symptoms of water toxicity are: seizures, stomach pain,
vomiting, loss of bladder control, electrolytes out of balance, glucose
elevated. The potassium & sodium is life threatenly low.
So my question to the vets out there... are there documented cases of
water toxicity in horses like there are in dogs and people?
