Like people, horses can have a number of different types of allergies. The most common types of allergies of the respiratory tract and the skin horse. Respiratory allergies are also known as "points" and are often similar to asthma in humans.
A horse may be allergic to things in the air (eg pollen, dust, mold, spores), certain foods or dietary supplements or insect bites. Typically, allergies develop over time with exposure. For example, a horse is not allergic toStraw can be left exposed but if the horse straw over a long period of time to develop an allergy to hay mold.
Symptoms
Like humans, many different allergic symptoms (itchy eyes or skin, bumps or skin rashes), respiratory distress can have horses can have a variety of symptoms could. Common symptoms in horses are:
Coughing or shortness of breath
Lower energy consumption, especially during exercise
Nasal discharge
Watery eyes
Unevenness of the skin
Itchy skin. TheHorse can be seen rubbing themselves on the floor or against property or the hair can be worn, where they have been rubbing.
Unfortunately, it can be difficult to diagnose an allergy, since each of these symptoms may also have other causes apart from allergies. For example, a sore throat may cause coughing, or pneumonia could cause respiratory problems and reduce energy consumption. The diagnosis is complicated by the fact that there may be a delayed reaction between exposureand a visible reaction. For example, the symptoms of skin allergies (eg buckling) 12 hours after exposure to the allergen can occur (the substance is allergic to horses). Consequently, it can require a veterinary help to determine whether the symptoms are due to an allergy or some other cause. In some cases (especially in the case), skin allergies, the veterinarian can be a tissue sample for analysis to determine whether the problem is allergic and, if so, against which. cause
Treatment and control
The treatment of horses for the treatment of allergies is similar to treatment for people. The preferred treatment is prevention. There to exposure, a number of treatments (eg antihistamines or corticosteroids) to reduce the symptoms and make the horse more comfortable. There are also a series of desensitising treatments.
Alternatively, if the symptoms are not strong, so you can separate the horse of the allergen and to enable them to recovernormal. If the horse is allergic to something in the barn (eg dust, fungi, mold) can be left out to pasture, until it had time to recover himself, and it has been left to the stall was clean. Alternatively, if the problem in the pasture (some installations), it is the horse in a stall until it again.
Depending on what the horse allergic to, are some common solutions:
Hay dust. Try the hay soaking in water or with a provider of less dusty hay. If thisdoes not work, you may need an alternative food, such as pelleted hay to change.
Straw dust. Try lightly spraying the straw with water to dampen the dust.
Dust. Keep the stable clean. If necessary, sprinkle lightly with water to dampen the dust.
Beds. If the horse allergic to the bedding, you can try another type of bedding. You can also tap rubber mats instead of beds.
Insects. You can keep the horse in the stable, when the insects are active (eg during the day) and run it even if they are not employed (eg at night). You can keep even with insect repellent or flyers to the insects.
Mold or fungus. They are usually associated with poor quality hay, feed and bedding. Do not buy products with mold or fungus. Keep these products in a dry and well ventilated room, without being on a cold floor, so that theynot develop mold or fungus. If you find any product, the tool does / mushroom, do not use, but instead you discard it.
Plants. If the horses are allergic to certain plants in the pasture, they should be reduced or eliminated. Be careful to keep the use of herbicides for this purpose than in laminitis.
Note that in the case of irrigated hay or straw, you have to make sure that that is changed daily hay and straw, so there is no time to shape or developFungus.
To bother cleaning a stable tendency to dust, mold, fungi and other potential allergens. Therefore, you should always remove a horse from the stable, while it is cleaned and some time after that (until things have time to get back) had.
Normally, a well-ventilated barn is less allergenic than a poorly ventilated book. But in the case of house dust allergies increasing ventilation can worsen the situation (at least in the short term) asincreased wind moving through the stable to dust.
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