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In a time when we are looking for answers - we need to put everything on 
the table. It may be that as can happen too often - too much of a good 
things may not be a good thing after all. While it's a small rat sample 
- it's least a new idea one that deserves some analysis. I want my horse 
to eat but I want him to eat like he normally does. If all of a sudden 
he's shoveling food down his gullet at three times the rate he normally 
does when not in stress - I think I would be somewhat concerned.

Truman

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Wait-wait-wait!!!
> First off, putting food in the stomach and stretching the stomach is 
> an important factor in STIMULATING hindgut motility, and is a GOOD thing!
> And no, I didn't exactly say that e-lytes in the stomach would hold 
> water in the stomach--it isn't that simple. It isn't just a simple 
> osmotic thing. Messing with the function of the cellular pumping 
> mechanisms (one can do that by over e-lyting) can shut down the 
> transport of e-lytes across the cell membranes of the upper GI 
> tract--and when this happens, fluid can actually be actively 
> transported back INTO the stomach, which in turn can cause rupture if 
> that fluid isn't refluxed off. This is what happens in anterior enteritis.
> Give me a "pig" of a horse ANY day over a picky eater--getting enough 
> groceries into the horse is WAY more important than shoving e-lytes 
> down his gullet, because if he eats, he's GETTING his e-lytes, along 
> with energy, stimulation of his hindgut, and all sorts of other good 
> things.
> Any time my horse has his nose buried in the feed at a vet check, I'm 
> gonna egg him on!
> Heidi
>
>
>     H

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