Breathing support supplements please.

[Tiddlypom]

My old school EDT always puts 'something', which I presume to be Hibiscrub because it comes up as pink and foaming, into his freshly run bucket of water and all his tools go in there before use. They go back in the bucket for another soak as he swaps tools as he works.

I suppose that there are clear alternatives, possibly? But dental tools absolutely should be cleaned and sterilised somehow in between horses.

 

[JackFrost]

I saw someone put dried garlic in the feed for a coughy wheezy horse. Within seconds the horse was coughing out and it cleared its airways almost immediatley. She said it really worked.

 

[ycbm]

It didn't foam at all TP, that's what made me suspicious. I'm writing to the practice, I've decided. And if I have to get the vet out I'll probably be doing a strangles test too, my friend's horse with strangles presented exactly the same way, bright eyed and bushy tailed with a cough and cream snot. If it's an infection it can't be anything but the dentist, he hasn't been anywhere since mid November and I've been nowhere near any other horses either.
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[rextherobber]

That's interesting. I watched her put it back in the van because I had bad vibes. I actually carried it to the van for her. She threw the water down the yard and plonked it all in the van.
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Wow! That's bad....

 

[Goldenstar]

I have never seen a vet not put something in the water the tools go in .
But not everything foams .

 

[ycbm]

Goods news this morning. Snot now in bits not in big blobs. 1/3 cream 1/3 white and 1/3 clear, so that's a huge improvement. I rode him for 20 minutes quietly, long and low trot and canter, to get him to blow it clear and he was breathing well, just snorting with the occasional cough.

I haven't changed anything, so this has to be an infection that he is getting on top of, and the only place he can possibly have caught it, given his and my isolation and the timing, is that dental work.

I am not happy, but it could have been a lot worse.

If he isn't a lot better again by Wednesday I'll go fetch a supplement, so thanks for all the recommendations.
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