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Heidi, I think the key there is 'some" of your clients are adept. The average horse owner isn't and may end up sending gallons of dmso somewhere it doesn't belong. I've had my own horses and done a lot of my own health care for them for 40+ years, but I would not run a gasonastric tube or Iv by myself.

 

chris

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Take away the horse's access to all feed. Continue access to water. No
> > more banamine until 12 hours past the first dose, then another ten cc
> > (assuming this is a full sized horse). Stand his feet in cold water or
> > run a cold hose over them, or put on ice boots or whatever while someone
> > else is hooking up the trailer. Don't give him bute on top of the
> > banamine, the banamine is the more powerful drug of the two and better
> > for abdominal pain. You sometimes give both, but doing so increases your
> > risk of gastric ulcers ten-fold.
>
> However, it is safer to give both than to overdose either...
>
> > Yes, DMSO is very effective, but you can't administer it yourself, a vet
> > has to do it diluted IV or via nasogastric tube. Don't waste time
> > screwing around trying to.
>
> Just curious why not. As one who has
>  used gallons of DMSO over the years
> for various sorts of inflamatory processes, although I prefer to give it
> IV, it goes down just fine as a drench diluted about 50-50. Some of my
> clients were quite adept at doing so.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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