Pavelytsia O. The pathology of the mineral exchange of mares and foals (diagnostics, treatment and prevention).

It has been ascertained that horses suffer from the complex pathology of mineral metabolism that arises in the Central biogeochemical area of Ukraine (Poltava region) and is characterized by the insufficiency of Phosphorus, Manganese, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Selenium and the excess of Calcium and Iron. For pregnant horses the pathology of mineral metabolism is especially serious in case of confinement and feeding of the same type and it becomes stronger in the last period of pregnancy, when the intensity of metabolic processes in the body increases and the need in mineral substances rises, due to the intensive formation of fetal tissues. Pregnant horses and foals they've given birth to happen to show the derangement of the clinic state, the morphological, biochemical and immunological blood values that declared itself by the changes of coat, skin and hoofed horns, intestinal obstruction, bad appetite, the birth of weak foals that had lowered immune status of the organism and were susceptible to diseases. There was developed a medicine Lactohose for treatment and prevention of the pathology of the mineral exchange of pregnant horses and foals, which is created on the basis of organic compounds of biogenic elements and the organosilicon immunomodulator Mival. The drug Lactohose improves clinical indices, normalizes metabolic processes in the tissues, the exchange of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, activates oxide-regeneration processes, stimulates the production of blood cells and immune responses of the body of pregnant horses and foals.