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Old 04-30-2012, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by cmorioles View Post
93 is not 99, and microscopic bleeding does not necessarily need to be treated with drugs...but you know that already.
No. Lasix has been definitively proven to attenuate the extent and severity of exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage. Which is why the medical world advises it's use as a race day therapeutic medication, for the health and welfare of the horse.

Insistence upon holding opinion left over from the 1950's, and pretending it's fact, in the face of 2012 medical evidence to the contrary, is really beyond comprehension. It's helping to ruin American racing today.
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