Experience of coughing/summer allergies...

TRECtastic said:
the first spring i owned my cob he started coughing really bad , had the vet out who put him on ventapulmin
he was diagnosed with an allergy to spring grass & tree pollen
since that first spring i have had him on clarity which has really helped him , he lives out all year round but has soaked hay or haylage in the winter
you can have hair tests done if you are interested , i didnt have my horse tested but have had my dog hair tested
there is a company on facebook that do it
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What is clarity?
 
Mine had a cough. Vet gave ventipilmun and danilon. No improvement so had antibiotics. Again no improvement. I had him scoped and it showed a bacterial infection. So he had specific antibiotics and was fine again in 10 days

Interesting he is on haylage. I am at the
Moment suffering bacterial pneumonia after clearing out the haylage barn

So I really would recommend scoping for both the above and below reasons :)

Also as i had him scoped and it was proved to be an infection and not copd or an allergy instance are not excluding it :)
 
Sorry for the delay, yes it was resolved eventually, when he went onto prascend and the cushings came under control, he has hardly coughed since and I was nervous when we got to August this year as thats when it started last year, but he's on super form, he's in at night now, and I've been competing and he's barely coughed once. I'd urge anyone who is dealing with poor immunity or poor performance which just doesn't seem to fix, especially at this time of year in a slightly older horse, to test for PPID. The test is free again at the moment I beleive.
 
Reading these posts I feel for you all! I read in the feeding section that two people having similar problems to you all and had great success with product called Pulmon Ez and no drugs!
 
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