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  • Diarrhoea

    Diarrhoea is defined as the increase of frequency and decrease in consistency of manure.

  • Equine influenza

    Equine influenza is a highly contagious viral disease that usually affects young horses

  • Fever

    Body temperature is usually maintained between 37,5 and 38°C in adult horses.

  • Heaves

    Prehistoric horses used to be wild and live in the open air eating grass 18h a day. Domesticated horses we know today have a completely different lifestyle: most live inside in badly-ventilated stalls, on straw bedding, and eat dry hay.

  • Hepatic function

    The liver is a large organ (approximatively 10 kg in a 500 kg horse) with multiple biological functions, essential to proper operation of the body.

  • Inflammatory Airway Disease (IAD)

    Inflammatory airway disease (IAD) is, as its name suggests, a disease caused by inflammation of the respiratory tract in the horse. It has much in common with heaves or RAO (recurrent airway obstruction), especially with regards to its main cause: exposure to dust. Nevertheless, the symptoms are much less severe in cases of IAD than in heaves.