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[RC] e-lytes redux - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Diane Day fourdays@xxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== Just thinking aloud, as risky as it may be. Have read posts where people say they elyte the night before a ride, then again in the morning - all this being before any loss wouldve taken place... but other postings will say you don't dose until after the horse is drinking and needing to presumbably replace lytes lost in the ride. So I am not sure I understand the principle of dosing before rides. Are you wanting to increase the horse's desire to drink? Or trying to set up some sort of positve balance account for him to draw from. In humans neither surplusses nor deficits of electrolytes are a good thing - wondering if we can get away with creating a surplus safely in horses. Also in humans - ulcers for a long time were thought to come from stress etc, until they learned that most are from a bacteria called H Pylori, (if I remember right) Wondering whether after further studies, that will be a similar finding in horses. I'd like to second Kim's post - that I hope this can be discussed all nice-like without aspersions cast from side to side. The reality is that nobody reeeeaaalllly knows (excepting Dr Q of course) what's going on inside your horse and what he really needs well enough to make sarcastic responses to those who seem not to agree with a prevailing trend. I was at a ride,on a cool day in Nov, concerned about my horse's increased heart rate after vetting through fine - (HR within normal limits, but high for him) and his "look" I took him back twice over the next 2 hours and eventually the coronet showed signs of a swelling finlly big enough that an astute vet picked up the start of an abscess. So he was in pain. But another rider had said to me prior to the dx - well have you given him any electrolytes??? with that raised eyebrow, tone and snort that clearly added "dummy" to her question. So I really hope y'all don't get nasty with each other - its keeps people from wanting to think, which was why Ti Iver's got so frustrated with RC. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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