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Originally Posted by freddymo
Dr Cohen suggests the following:
“I don’t care what anyone else says, 99% of all horses run on Lasix and 99% of all horses do not bleed,” Cohen said. “Period. End of story. I have been scoping horses for 30 years and the percentage of horses that really bleed is less than 10%. Do not listen to any veterinarian tell you differently.
Strange that there is such diversity in Vet's opinions on a fairly simple condition to substantiate?
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As I said earlier, he says, "That really bleed." Now, it's hard to tell exactly what is meant without hearing the tone, but in a lot of situations, "really" means "a lot." Like, "It's really hot out," or "he's really cute," or "that was a really bad op-ed Bill wrote there." If he means "really bleed" as in, bleed to where you can see it with the naked eye because it's coming out the horse's nose, then sure, I'll give him that only ten percent of the horses he's scoped "really bleed."
Rudeboyelvis also pointed out something I missed: that if the horses the vet is scoping are running/training on Lasix, then yes, it would stand to reason that most of them wouldn't bleed. Because that's what Lasix does, makes them not bleed.