synchronous. diaphragmatic flutter

[GermanyJo]

HI
Anyone any experience of this? I have read a few things on the internet about it , but would be interested to hear of anyone having seen this.

Just as background, my horse is relatively fit, he is ridden every day - either schooling, jumping or hacking for min an hour a day - he is fit enough to be doing a english equivalent Intro or Prenovice ODE.
It is very warm here at the moment (same as you guys I think... 30 degrees.. horrible humidity etc etc).. On Saturday we went to a hunter trial... about 40 mins in the lorry - Mickey has not been out much in the last 12 months so he was extremely wet when we got to the competition - only managed to get half way round the course (another story :-) ).. so did not really exert ourselves too much ! - journey back got very wet again (we are talking lorry floor swimming).
Sunday we only hacked out quietly.. Monday 40 mins schooling - Tuesday back to the hunter trial to have a school through the water (where we had the problem) - same story with the travelling.. very wet on arrival .. did not sweat too much whilst working - but very wet when we got home again.
Got to the yard yesterday.. he is looking fine.. had a short jumping lesson - went well .. full energy.
when I finished heard some girls talking to my boyfriend saying that Mickey was making some funny noises when they went to lock up last night... sounded a bit like hiccuping they said... they went in the box, checked him out.. he stopped making the noise then started to eat his hay as normal.

..... I have thought about the whole day and cannot think of what it could have been.. he does not windsuck... and I asked them if he was moving his head and neck and they said no........

Might be nothing.. but am wondering if it could be SDF? ... he is fed on a good quality muesli at the recommended amounts for body weight , fully balanced.. the only extra he gets is Magnitude. He has a salt lick in the box, but I have yet to see him use it.

sorry it is so long... probably something or nothing , but thought I would post and see if anyone had any comments.

Horse in himself is in good form.. drinking normally etc.. but just a bit worried and wondered if I should be getting a blood test done for electrolyte levels?

If any of you feed electrolytes would be interested to hear how often and whether in feed or water... I used to give the hunters some after hunting when I did them years ago.. but they were doing a bit more work than Mickey :-)

[bailey14]

Apparently it is associated with an electrolyte imbalance, so give him electrolytes.

[GermanyJo]

yep, read that too, but just wanted to hear if anyone had had experience of it out of interest. Not even sure that that is what the noise was last night just one of the options I came up with.

[bailey14]

Haven't got experience personally, but my friends gelding
has it. She stopped the hiccuping (presumably) by feeding electrolytes and hasn't heard him hiccup since.

[teddyt]

A link to an article on electrolytes by David Marlin
http://www.horsehero.com/editorial