Discharge from one nostril?

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Horse started with watery, greenish-yellow slight discharge on Thur. It is now still slight but definitely has pus in it. He has no other symptoms. Have spoken to vets twice and they are fine about me monitoring him until he has a routine visit on Tue. Just wondered if anyone else has had similar in the meantime. I suspect a sinus infection but have absolutely no idea what could have caused it - the only thing I can think is that he's managed to get a grass seed or similar up there but he shows no sign at all of discomfort. It's weird.
 
weirdly I have just learnt a lot about this today !!

I would say it sounds like sinusitis. It can either be primary so caused by a grass or hay seed or anything else getting up there & being infected. It can also be secondary & caused by an infected tooth. It starts at the root so it may not show up when teeth are done.

My friends horse had it & had 3 lots of antibiotics & it seemed to clear up but when getting his teeth done again because he was sedated & had his head down & having teeth done vibrates things it proved that it hadn't cleared up.

I would speak to vet about sinusitis specifically as they will possibly just give you antibiotics for a virus but if it was a virus it should be coming from both nostrils & him have a temperature & be feeling a bit flat. Does the discharge smell ?
 
One of mine had a nasty discharge from one nostril, first scope showed nothing or at least we thought anyway but it continued and x rays showed no teeth problems or sinusitis and luckily another vet sugested scoping again and he went into the gutteral pouch and found a major infection consisting of about 100 condroids (lumps of pus), he had to have each one removed one at a time which took about 3 separate visits to thhe vet as thhey only wanted to sedate him for a few hours at a time, my vet thinks the first vet didnt get into the pouch which is why it was missed, its not that common so chances are your horse has something else but of course it is possible.
 
Yikes, hope it's not his gutteral pouch! Did you ever find out what had caused that?
It did seem a bit better tonight so will keep my fingers crossed. It does smell - of pus. I'm fairly sure it's nothing infectious.
 
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