Breathing problems

Triskar is all better! Continued with the PulmonEZ, and was nebulising him each day and applying NostrilVet - he wasn't coughing at all, but he was still struggling with his exhalation - continued with a double exhalation although it seemed it was all in his sinuses, or at least in his nose - I could hear the squeak as he breathed, and he was still puffing when going uphill, despite wearing a nose net. It didn't, howewver, affect his appetite and he looked like he was pregnant with twins..... So I bought him a GreenGuard muzzle, on the basis that it was more open than any other type of muzzle, and was less likely to make him feel even more that he couldn't breathe. I nebulised him, puffed the NostrilVet up his nose and turned him out in the muzzle and watched to make sure that he understood he could still eat, and drink. When I got him in his breathing was normal. There was no sign of any congestion in his sinuses. He only had one scoop of PulmonEZ (in his breakfast) - I didn't nebulise him or apply NostrilVet when he went out for the night, and he came in in the morning breathing perfectly healthily! Since then, have resumed hacking - he cantered (his idea, not mine) on the canter track - only for 50 yards, and he was a bit puffed but in a normal way - this is a pony who hadn't worked since the end of June. This morning he had 2 mini canters - again his idea - and I just let him canter until he decides that that's enough for now. He trotted uphill (although I made him walk the steep bits) on all the usual trotting tracks/roads. I've now reduced the PulmonEZ to a maintenance dose of 1/2 scoop a day. No coughing, no heaving, no congestion. I don't know whether the muzzle is acting as a barrier to inhalation of the allergen, or whether he was actually eating the allergen, and it's preventing him from doing that, or whether he was just eating too much every night, and I don't care - I've got my Triskar back with the added advantage of not being nipped when I put him out or bring him in! (They are only love bites - he doesn't bite to hurt!)
 
Today Lydia rode him in the school with me on Bertie to practise for the Interdressage Pairs comp this month - should have been ideal, 2 ginger Arabs with white stars, one a grandson of Banat, the other a Great-Grandson..... and only a walk and trot test..... Triskar is feeling VERY well, and has remembered that he was cut late, and is therefore still (in his head) a stallion and he was REVOLTING - threatening to boot Bertie, threatening to bite Bertie, and doing the test on five legs..... I'm glad he's feeling so well, but I think we'll have to pass on the Pairs Class - Triskar says "this school ain't big enough for the both of us!"
 
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