AeroHippus Equine Aerosol Chamber
Half a ton of patient, and the treatment fits in a coat pocket. The AeroHippus rests its bell over one nostril at the crossties, lets the horse breathe at whatever pace dignity demands, and rides the inhaler's dose down the long airway — the Flow-Vu paddle reporting each arrival to the human end of the lead rope.
- Bell-shaped mask seals softly over a single nostril — no headstall, no full-face drama
- The horse sets the rhythm; the low-resistance valve simply follows each inhale
- Flow-Vu paddle gives the handler dose-by-dose proof at a glance
- Direct-to-lung delivery runs on a fraction of what feed-through steroids spend
- Standard metered-dose inhalers click in, and the whole kit travels show-legal light
Heaves, renegotiated at the nostril
Equine asthma is a barn's oldest tenant — the double exhale, the girthing cough, the August canter that quietly shortens. The modern lease terms are inhaled: corticosteroids and bronchodilators delivered straight to the airway at a fraction of the systemic dose, which for a twelve-hundred-pound body is not a rounding error but the whole point. The AeroHippus is the piece of hardware that makes a human-pharmacy puffer work at that scale, one nostril at a time.
Because the mask covers a single nostril and asks for no change in breathing, most horses file it under grooming within a few sessions — introduce it at a relaxed moment, pair it with wither scratches, and let the Flow-Vu do the worrying.
The rest of the prescription is management
No chamber outruns dusty hay. The AeroHippus earns its keep alongside the boring victories — soaked or steamed hay fed low, bedding forked with the horse elsewhere, real turnout instead of a sealed winter barn. Pair the two halves and the hill in August goes back to being just a hill; the clearing-the-air guide in the reading nook walks the full barn audit.
