maxapple
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On Tue, my loaner brought our TB in from the field with a funny lump under his 'chin' - between his jaw bones - quite close to his mouth end if that makes sense. It felt like there were several lumps, on ethe size of a small marble, and also felt like the glands etc in that area were swelling.
We phoned the vet straight out as I was worried it could be an abscess, or be something that would start to affect his breathing.
She came and did a good check over - said it looked to high up to be lymph / glands, and that she couldn't feel fluid build up. She also had a good look in his mouth / under his tounge and couldn't see anything - so concluded it could be a reaction to a bite / sting perhaps. She also said that they had seen a lot of similar facial swellings recently on horses, bites etc.
She gave him bute to try and help reduce the swelling and said it could take at least a week to start going down. I'm not too worried as I have used this vet for years and trust her totally. Also - my horse is fine within himself - he is eating fine, looks well, no discharge etc ...
The only thing is it doesn't seem to be going down at all yet. Has anyone had anything similar / or could think of what else it might be? He is a fine TB and reacts quite badly to flies in the spring - comes up in lots of little hives, so I wonder if its just a bad sting / bite that will take a long time to go away.
We phoned the vet straight out as I was worried it could be an abscess, or be something that would start to affect his breathing.
She came and did a good check over - said it looked to high up to be lymph / glands, and that she couldn't feel fluid build up. She also had a good look in his mouth / under his tounge and couldn't see anything - so concluded it could be a reaction to a bite / sting perhaps. She also said that they had seen a lot of similar facial swellings recently on horses, bites etc.
She gave him bute to try and help reduce the swelling and said it could take at least a week to start going down. I'm not too worried as I have used this vet for years and trust her totally. Also - my horse is fine within himself - he is eating fine, looks well, no discharge etc ...
The only thing is it doesn't seem to be going down at all yet. Has anyone had anything similar / or could think of what else it might be? He is a fine TB and reacts quite badly to flies in the spring - comes up in lots of little hives, so I wonder if its just a bad sting / bite that will take a long time to go away.