Dust Allergy

[No_Angel]

Anyone got a horse with a dust allergy?

How do you manage them?
Do you use any supplements?

[No_Angel]

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[Bozzy]

Firstly, just curious as to hearing more about it's symptoms?? I suppose it's mainly a case of keeping the horse away from the triggering factor?

[Ptaty70]

Hi, CW coughs and it started in the summer, when the hay was brought into the barn behind him. Since then I have been soaking his hay, wetting his food, keeping wet out of his bed and brooming out his stable to get rid of the cobwebs. He is also on easy breathing supplements from Hilton Herbs - Hackaway I think

Apart from these measures, all you can do is to get very expensive stuff from the vet (although one told me in the summer that you could get a human inhaler which costs £5 and use a baby funnel to put over one nostril, a few puffs and it's the same as the equine equivalent whcih costs 4x as much...

is your horse coughing/???

[No_Angel]

Vet told me:D ;)

Horse on rubber matting and no bedding, has haylage and wetted feed, only just back on chaff. Turnout out all day and in at night, out last night and coughed more.
Coughing got better but still does occasional one.
I was told if coughing continued till today (developed couhg last weekend) that horse would need ventapaulin. Cough got better but started coughing again last night when left out.

[Ptaty70]

why not try the inhaler option I gave? not tried it myself but the vet was adamant (on the sly...) that it is equivalent to expensive equine medicines!

Sounds like you have everything covered. Medicines could be the only way forward now...

[No_Angel]

Im asthmatic so do have a few inhalers, tho im not sure id like to try it without vets approval.

ive been looking at resperaise (sp?) by NAF, anyone know if its any good?

Read somewhere that magnesium is supposed ot help aswell.

[Mareish]

My horse is just about allergic to everything

feel free to pm me with any q's :)

[Hayz]

Probably wrong horse but if it was Shay, Naomi said to me she had vet who confirmed he had copd. Just thought you might want to know if you allready didnt :)

[Skye94]

My mare has COPD which has calmed down A LOT! She is on shavings now, which also helps with her mites, she needs anything she eats to be soaked well and i feed NAF Easy Breathing it has garlic and many more herbs which help bring up gunk etc.. but if ** horse is actually allergic i would use NAF Immuforte powder which is like a antidote for reactions i have many customers who would swear by it.
If u wanna no more on products let me no im a NAF, Dengie and Spillers Rep.

[Shadowlark]

I have a mare with severe COPD.

Some of the triggers are of course dutsty hay, windy days, dry paddock etc.
Things I was told, no round bale hay only squares. NEVER elevate the food off the ground, horses natural defence is gravity and all these elevated feeders/hay nets are serious trouble for them. Deja is possibly the worst case I have ever seen, she has very pronounced heave lines. I have tried several supplements, and I really don't 'think any have worked even slightly to help her.

I keep out 24/7 but some of the people I have spoken to say that spraying down the entire stall area can help, as in the walls alley ways etc as often as possible really helps control the dust in the horses immediate environment. One girl I know just usese a pump style garden sprayer to avoid flooding her stable block. making sure the horse is last brought in and after everyone else is.. but I think that is more for northamerican ailes barns then the style you guys tend to have.

[Jessey]

Have you considered it may be a pollen allergy rather than dust? which might explain why it was worse overnight.
My horses don't have any allergies but I do, as a kid I spent years going to Great Ormand Ste=reet hospital to try and sort mine out, dust is a major player with mine. I saw a homeopathic doctor down there and they have me capsulles for pollens and dust and I would say they did make a huge difference to my allergy, as a kid I had permenant rhinitus and sinusitus (sp?) and now its only really bad days I get it (like when I first dust the house when I haven't done it in weeks :o )
There are homeopathic vets out there, they might be able to help angel?

[Ann Powell]

My mare Kelly has COPD for many years. We have found if we feed her haylage, soak her feed, feed garlic, and we use rubber matting with Aquamax
dustfree bedding. We also make sure that that her companion is kept on the same bedding, with haylage.
The other thing that we were advised to do was cut down the fir trees that were surrounding her stable. Her breathing is very good now, and she is 28 years old.


Ann

[puzzles]

. . . Out 24/7 on soaked or steamed hay, dust-free bedding (for the field shelter) . . . works a miracle, better than any supplement can do.

[Sammii]

Sorry this is such a late reply, you have probably found a good solution but in December, we had the vet out to Red because he had a water infection. Whilst she was checking him, she also found a respiratory blockage and that he had dust allergy from the hay and dry chaff in his feeds etc. She said this was causing him to breathe from his stomach rather than his lungs and would be more painful the more that it continued.

I was reccomended to use Ventilate, a supplement that is fed to the equivalent of two scoops a day. (I feed one at night and then one in morning). I also soak anything that he will be digesting, all his feeds all his hay and we always soak the hay we put in the field for all the horses (6 of them share a field) because we know that soaked hay wont harm them all, but that little bit of dry hay he could get in the field would not help him.

[puzzles]

ditto jessy too, sigh ;-)

in fact, from now on can you NR lot pleae assocoate my reply with Jessey's, please (if she doesn't mind of course! :-D)