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Originally Posted by dilanesp
I don't buy that at all. If that were the case, WADA and the Olympics would permit the drug.
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Lasix (Furosemide) increases urination so drug breakdown products will clear faster if that is how they are excreted. It also will dehydrate if replacement fluids or water is not available, which is how it helps horses from bleeding.
The Olympics and WADA prohibit it because many competitions involve athlete weight. Also if they are only testing for drug metabolites by urine, they will miss some.
When Chad was training at Canterbury, they tested top 3 horses in every race plus specials if the Stewards wanted any lower placed (not too often but like a big favorite that did not fire at all). They tested both urine and blood serum. If all tracks are doing this now, the drug metabolites will be found (even though they might not originally know what they are from if it is a new exotic drug).
The following article explains some about abuses with human athletes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2962812/
