{"id":10748,"date":"2020-12-17T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=10748"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:29:15","slug":"low-dust-forages-essential-for-asthmatic-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/low-dust-forages-essential-for-asthmatic-horses.php","title":{"rendered":"Low-Dust Forages Essential for Asthmatic Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/laurent-couetilLO.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Couetil attaches an equine nebulizer to a horse\" class=\"wp-image-4479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/laurent-couetilLO.jpg 800w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/laurent-couetilLO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/laurent-couetilLO-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/laurent-couetilLO-353x235.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Dr. Laurent Cou\u00ebtil uses an equine nebulizer to administer treatment for asthma. (Purdue University photo\/Rebecca Wilcox)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers recently revealed that feeding Thoroughbred racehorses in training and racing certain alternatives to dry hay resulted in 30% fewer respirable dust particles in horses\u2019 breathing zones and decreased airway inflammation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurent L. Cou\u00ebtil, DVM, PhD, professor of Large Animal Internal Medicine and director of Equine Research Programs and <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/esmc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equine Sports Medicine Center<\/a> at Purdue University\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine in Indiana, presented data showing the benefits of avoiding dry hay in horses with mild airway inflammation, also known as equine asthma (EA), during the 2020 American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Convention, which is being held virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/thehorse.com\/195307\/aaep-2020-low-dust-forages-essential-for-asthmatic-horses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Horse &#8211; Low-Dust Forages Essential for Asthmatic Horses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers recently revealed that feeding Thoroughbred racehorses in training and racing certain alternatives to dry hay resulted in 30% fewer respirable dust particles in horses\u2019 breathing zones and decreased airway inflammation. Laurent L. Cou\u00ebtil, DVM, PhD, professor of Large Animal Internal Medicine and director of Equine Research Programs and Equine Sports Medicine Center at Purdue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17,11],"tags":[94,1118,1632,78,339],"class_list":["post-10748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers","category-in-the-news","category-research","tag-equine","tag-equine-asthma","tag-equine-research","tag-horse","tag-laurent-couetil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10749,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions\/10749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}