I've done something stupid...over rugged

Orchardbeck

Orchardbeck

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Last night i did something that went completely agåinst my principles and put a rug on my mare. Its been raining, and she was shivering. Unfortunately her lightweight no fill turnout is in the stables down the road, and i had my baby asleep so couldn't leave the grounds - my mare is in the paddock next to the house and my OH was out so i made a decision - i put her wicking rug (weatherbeeta skrim thing) on cos she was wet, then chucked a full neck mediumweight turnout over the top. And left her like that overnight.

Needless to say when i took IT off first thing this morning she was a bit warm, and covered in hives. The hives have got worse as the day has gone on, they are all over her body, including her head and she's going beserk rubbing on her knees.

I also left her grazing muzzle on overnight (I knew she could drink, but the grass wasn't long enough to eat through it so I opened up another part of the paddock where the grass is a bit longer, but really dark green.

Could thehives be made worse by stress, by not being able to eat as much as she'd like? I'm so cross with myself.
 
aww bum, I don't really have any experience of hives, but just wanted to say don't beat yourself up about it.

I'm sure many of us have done something that we thought was in the horses best interest and its gone wrong.

I got a £90 vet bill and a grumpy horse this month for putting on sweet itch lotion that he'd had on before with no reaction, failed to notice it was out of date, he reacted to it, I tried to wash it off (with shampoo I'd used before), made it worse. Lesson well and truely learned and I will never not feel guilty and stupid about it!
 
don't beat yourself up with the way the weather is at the minute its so hard to know what to do for the best. If I didn't have a big woolly mammoth ID x friesian I could have easily made the same mistake many times.
 
She is hot and dehydrated you need to get some liquids inside her sugar beet is excellent to rehydrate.
 
we've done the same before! it's just the heat, we were recommended (by our vet) to give them a few anti-histamines (human ones!) obviously exceed the human recommended dose!
 
Don't beat yourself up as others have said it's easily done. Are you sure it is not something she has eaten in the new bit of field? My old horse went into our sick paddock at the yard and she came out in hives (no other horse ever had!) the vet suggested giving her 14 piriton tablets which bought the hives down overnight.
 
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