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So Tom--
I thought I would pose a few questions here rather than privately regarding 
hyponatremia as it relates to the endurance horse. Since these hard working 
horses are depleting their fluid and electrolyte reserves to varying degrees, 
how do we practice safe rehydration procedures so as to encourage ongoing high 
work tolerance, and avoid overhydration? What about the common practice of 
feeding large volumes of soaked beet pulp? Could that potentially cause a 
problem depending on where a given horse is metabolically or in his 
conditioning? Or is it not enough to worry about? Do we tend to overelectrolyte 
in this sport? I wonder now if I have often mistaken a horse's apparent 
declining energy, willingness to work and slowed recoveries with 
underelectrolyting rather than underfeeding, and thereby causing low blood 
glucose levels. Am I way off? Bruce Weary>

> From what the MDs were saying, elyting does not solve the problem. And their 
> best preventative idea is to have a scale available every so often in the 
> latter stages of a marathon--which is still a shorter race (in hours) than an 
> endurance ride.
ti


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