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Re: [RC] New Endurance Horse Electrolyte Research - recklessheartranch


Beth --

Hyper means "HIgh" or too much. Hypo means "low" or too little.

"emia" means in the blood (as I recall)

So Hyernatremia is high sodium (salt) in the blood

and hyperchloremia is too much Chloride.

Both are electrolytes, along with potassium.

This stuff I know from being a nurse.

But I would love to hear from vets as to how electrolyte imbalance effects 
horses. I know with people too lttle potassium can actually mess up cardiac 
function.

Can it do that with a horse?

Katrina



From: Beth Walker <bwalker2@xxxxxxx>
Date: 2008/01/30 Wed PM 01:05:17 CST
To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC]   New Endurance Horse Electrolyte Research



Can I get a translation please?
Hyernatremia and hyperchloremia:  what is it and what are the possible effects?

On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Karen.Chaton wrote:
I posted some new stuff about electrolyte research in endurance horses in my 
blog.  Here is the link  Here is an excerpt: In conclusion, despite greater 
water intake with HD, this treatment did not result in faster competition time 
or provide any detectable competitive advantage in the horse and rider teams 
that participated in this study. Although BM loss was not attenuated by 
greater water intake with HD, a reason for this discrepancy was not clearly 
determined. Next, HD resulted in hypernatremia and hyperchloremia, yet at the 
same time, produced a subtle improvement in owner-perceived performance; it 
was also associated with detectable improvements in bicarbonate concentration 
and blood pH.; However, development of hypernatremia and hyperchloremia with 
HD, in these endurance horses, remains a concern, and until more definitive 
data becomes available, it has led us to decrease our current recommendation 
for electrolyte replacement to no more than one-third of the estimated 
deficits incurred by the exercise bout.  John - I wanted to also post that in 
my page on endurance.net that I set up but I forgot to bookmark it and can't 
figure out how to get back there?  Can you send me the link or put one on the 
front page of endurance.net (sorry if there is one there and I can't find it, 
maybe a brightly colored trail marker would help)  Thanks!  Karen              
                                                                              
                                                      



Katrina O'Neal
Reckless Heart Ranch
822 Estates Loop
Priest River, ID 83856
(208)265-4837
recklessheartranch@xxxxxxxxxxx

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