How effective is acetazolamide in the treatment of HYPP?
What causes a horse to drool excessively? Several questions regarding drooling horses have crossed my desk in the last month, such as: What causes a horse to drool excessively? Do I need to worry about the fact that it lasted all summer this year, and is still happening? Should we have the field sprayed or will that cause even more problems? Slobbering Horse Syndrome, slobbers, and excessive drooling are all terms for a disorder that results in the spring and summer when horses eat legume forages, particularly clover, which have been infected by the fungus Rhizoctonia leguminicola. This fungus produces an alkaloid called slaframine, which is responsible for the excessive drooling and slobbering. Slaframine stimulates the salivary glands and smooth muscles. The fungus most commonly affects clovers (red, white, and alsike) and alfalfa, and increases when these forages become drought-stressed or are exposed to prolonged wet conditions. It forms a black patch which may be visible on the le
