Re: Radios, et.al. and similarities

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 05:57 PM 4/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>O
>>these technologies are "pain killers" that could easily mask the true
>>physical condition of the horse, and therefore are equally as 
>>detrimental
>>as administering something like Banamine (understnading that like
>Had a friend at a ride recently, who got his stuff mixed up with hauling
>partner's stuff at a vet check.  He can't see anything without glasses,
>and after third vet check, his horse really slowed up and we left him. 
>Horse was just fine, just slow.  Later, the hauling partner was looking
>for her missing tube of Banamine.  Seems in his half blind state, he had
>given the horse an entire tube (3 doses) instead of his pastE
>electyrolytes.  I think his horse was just kinda jogging along, looking
>at the Fall colors and saying "DUDE!"  :-)


	I wouldn't have been concerned about the horse being stoned--Banamine
doesn't do that. But I *would* have been fairly concerned about the
possibility of renal damage--I suspect the horse would have been less than
optimally hydrated, and 3x the dose is not trivial...
                  --CMNewell, DVM