Since 1979 the KEGEL INHALER has been used successfully to treat horses that have not responded to any other therapies.
In recent years, the number of horses with respiratory ailments has dramatically increased. At the same time, chronic changes in the lungs are being detected more and more frequently. Veterinary experts trace this increase to the following causes, listed in order of significance:
1. Feeding and bedding horses over a period of weeks or even months using hay and straw that is less than perfectly clean and which, to some degree, contains mould spores or mildewed components.
2. Incomplete healing of infectious horse's cough because the horse is returned to regular exertion before having fully recovered.
3. Influenza vaccinations given only at irregular intervals. Returning the horse to regular exertion too quickly following the vaccination doesn't allow the body enough time to build up sufficient vaccination protection.
4. Transporting horses to distant tournaments leads to constant reinfection with other strains of the influenza virus, rendering the previously acquired immunity ineffective.
Chronic respiratory infections in horses can lead to COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) when the visible symptoms are unclear and are not taken seriously enough from the onset. Coughing fits are heard seldomly, sometimes none for days at a time, because the disease is not always accompanied by a cough.
Indeed, the opposite can be true: The horses feel perfectly healthy because there is no pain conduit system linking the lungs to the brain.