Nosebleed

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My horse had a very slight nosebleed when I had finished riding today. She's never had one before and it wasn't a particularly stressfull session or anything like that so I'm worried about what could be the cause of it? Could this be just a one off occurence or is it more likely to be an indicator of an underlying problem?

Thanks in advance for any advice and information :D
 
Would keep an eye and see if it happens again.

My TB mare gets them often when its high pressure and she has worked hard, but it quickly stops and she isnt distressed by them.

If the horse is distressed I would call the vet, and if they keep happening I would, otherwise I would just monitor
 
I am now super paranoid about nose bleeds! My horse had guttural pouch mycosis and I found him bleeding out severely - his internal carotid artery had ruptured. According to my vet though they normally have small warning bleeds (mine didnt though) not necessarily associated with any strenuous activity so I'd probably get it checked out if I felt the activity really didn't warrant a bleed....

I am paranoid though now, before this I'd probably say keep an eye on it unless the horse was unduly distressed.
 
alsxx said:
I am now super paranoid about nose bleeds! My horse had guttural pouch mycosis and I found him bleeding out severely - his internal carotid artery had ruptured. According to my vet though they normally have small warning bleeds (mine didnt though) not necessarily associated with any strenuous activity so I'd probably get it checked out if I felt the activity really didn't warrant a bleed....

I am paranoid though now, before this I'd probably say keep an eye on it unless the horse was unduly distressed.
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I'm paranoid too! The last horse I saw with a nosebleed was dead within 24hours! Although I do appreciate that was an extreme situation... I think what's worrying me the most is that I can't work out any trigger factors for why she had it and I've had her a couple of years and she's never had one. I'm going to keep a close eye on her and see what she does when I work her tomorrow she's not distressed at all and it really was tiny, it just worries me that there has to be a reason for it.
 
On the other end of the spectrum, I had one that got trickles of bright red blood quite regularly. It usually happened during fast work but also during dry weather and when the. pollen count was high. We had it investigated and the conclusion was simply that he had weak capillary walls.

We did carry a vet's letter when he evented but we were never challenged on it.
 
It really needs checking out. It could be lots of different things, from an accidental blow to the nose, vitamin deficiency (some bleeders are cured by vitamin K, I think),or something much worse.
 
Squeak said:
I'm paranoid too! The last horse I saw with a nosebleed was dead within 24hours! Although I do appreciate that was an extreme situation... I think what's worrying me the most is that I can't work out any trigger factors for why she had it and I've had her a couple of years and she's never had one. I'm going to keep a close eye on her and see what she does when I work her tomorrow she's not distressed at all and it really was tiny, it just worries me that there has to be a reason for it.
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On that basis there is no harm having it checked.... I'm sure it's nothing but if my gut feeling is 'something is not right here' based on knowing the horse, it's history and thinking there are a lack of obvious triggers, I err on the side of caution!

Hope she's ok, keep us updated!
 
I used to have a pony that would occasionally have a nose bleed. The vet said that horses noses are incredibly vascular and its very common to have a nose bleed, can happen at any time, even if theyve just snorted ;) But the type i think he was referring too were more of a trickle that stops within 30mins.

Im sure its nothing to worry about, but i guess the default answer to ask a vet/wait to see if it happens again
 
Orangehorse said:
It really needs checking out. It could be lots of different things, from an accidental blow to the nose, vitamin deficiency (some bleeders are cured by vitamin K, I think),or something much worse.
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Hmm this is really useful I might give her some extra sugerbeet in her feed as it wont hurt her and should boost the vitamin K!
 
Yeah my gut feeling isn't happy about it but I hate getting vets out and due to my recent bad experience with nosebleeds I wonder if I'm just over thinking this... Willl keep a close eye on her and if there's anything funny will call the vet ASAP. Thanks for all your advice, hopefully she just snorted strangely or something! Horses do love to worry us! Will keep you updated :)
 
Our first eventer had two occasions of nosebleeds, straight after a cross country run both times.

Was scoped and found to have fairly bad COPD. He only had 3 or 4 more runs before he was PTS (different issues) but inhalers completely cured the issue, seemingly.

I would recommend getting horse scoped to find out where blood was coming from. Inside the nostril (so likely to be a nick or a scratch) clearly isn't an issue but ours was blood from the lungs - identical bright red, slow trickle - and clearly was much more serious.
 
TarrSteps said:
On the other end of the spectrum, I had one that got trickles of bright red blood quite regularly. It usually happened during fast work but also during dry weather and when the. pollen count was high. We had it investigated and the conclusion was simply that he had weak capillary walls.

We did carry a vet's letter when he evented but we were never challenged on it.
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I had one exactly the same. Fed him on this stuff from Orchard Equestrian and haven't seen one since, although he doesn't do as much fast work now.
https://www.orchardequestrian.com/Su-Per-PulmoShield-Formerly-Calophyll-4lb.html
 
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