ridecamp@endurance.net: [endurance] heat exhaustion
[endurance] heat exhaustion
Serge Cote (scote@laurentides.mtl.net)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:56:55 -0400
The horse concerned here is not an endurance horse, but I need your advise.
A friend of mine has a 12 year old light gray Appaloosa/Percheron
guilding. She does some jumping with him and, in the summer, especially on
hot days, he suffers very much from the heat: sweating, heavy breathing that
will not stop unless she cools him down with a shower. He is so abnormally
sensible to heat exhaustion that she has stopped taking him out during the
summer.
What we are wondering is not how to treat heat exhaustion, but how
she could prevent it. Would electrolytes be of any help? And if yes what
kind should she use. Could a blood test tell us anything of importance?
You can e-mail me privately at scote@laurentides.mtl.net
Thanks a lot,
Anne, Qc, Canada
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Serge Cote
scote@laurentides.mtl.net
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