Hypoglycaemia....hypothermia in whippets

[meddling]

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Had thought that Pixies reaction after a lot of swimming was hypothermia...violent shaking and staggering a bit aimlessly, but now thinking about it, wonder if it is Hypoglycaemia as she begins to graze frantically afterwards and chew up sticks...

...anyone any experience?

 

[chelynnah]

Clair it does actually sound like EIH otherwise known as Exercise Induced Hypothermia (or could be hyperthermia). There's a lot of info on it starting to come out and while it's not overly common in whippets it seems it's not uncommon either. There was a call on Whippet World about a year ago for blood samples for a study being done on it. Pm me through FB if you don't have the whippet world board addy (it's .net rather than .com and you can search the board).