hay fever or bad behaviour?

[dazzlingsunbeam#1]

hi, my mothers horse has started in the past week having bucking and rearing fits shortly after sneezing and head shaking?

he is rather dangerous while doing this and then just stands still after wards and walks politely behind you back to his stable.

he does have runny eyes and the naughty behaviour is always after sneezing. could this just been his reaction to pollen that has got up his nose.

He wears a mask in the field but after the first bucking and rearing fit we take it off while walking to and from the field.

any body got any ideas?

we have started to feed him hayfever tablets as our trainer suggested this.

he can have a bit of an opinon about this but he has never been naughty like this before.

any help would be greatly received.

 

[Holly Hocks]

I have a headshaking mare - we re currently trying to establish whether it is trigeminal neuralgia or allergy. We don't think it's allergy as there is no response to antihistamines.
If I were you, i would buy some Piriton and give a large dose of that to see if that helps. It can take a few days to get into the system though, so give it 4 or 5 days to expect to see any improvement if it is allergy related. Good luck.