head shaking/hay fever help :(

[MightyNice]

am sure it is even more annoying for them than me but what can I do? The days of hours of happy hacking are gone, now is the era of flowering oil seed rape and cantering sideways with heads between knees :(

the equilibrium nets help a little, keep looking at and thinking about various supplements yet suspect this is a money wasting exercise - unless any of you can tell me something helpful about products you've tried?

The only thing i found to help was the nets, Although i found with my pony i needed a size bigger to be effective. I'm going back 7 years but the ones i bought were sized the same as headcollars, and my 14hh pony had a cob size and it worked a treat x

I have no experience of this directly sorry .... but has the vet suggested anti histimines.

I have had success with other things ( hormonal mare) using aromatic oil therapies...... will do not harm and may do some good .

Its definately not a great feeling ..... .I get hay fever and its grotty.

thanks, luckily it is all damp everywhere and not so bad this evening

had feeling they couldn't take anti-histamines for some reason, probably imaginar?

You can give piriton to horses and dogs, we have often. Back in the day before nose nets, you could put a silk stocking over their nose.

I have heard that taking honey every day helps with hayfever for humans and horses. The honey has to be local to be effective (I guess because of the nectar that the bees are making their honey from).

I could probably help myself to local honey, there is some sort of guerilla bee-keeper here who sets up little groups of hives round the edges of all the fields and bridleways (fun when they swarm) - or it might be safer to just buy some, that has to be worth a try. Wonder how much a horse would need? Would a honey sandwich do it?

How much piriton do you give saggy, just a glug?

I'll ask Lou, hold on...

Right. Jack, our giant sec B, 13hh, had a swollen wasp sting, he started on 8 tabs and went down to 4. It can be generic piriton, but it must have the same ingredients.

thanks, will investigate :)

Hi
~our advanced eventer head shook. For normal events he wore a nose net but for FEI it wasn't allowed so we put Vaseline on his nostrils. It looked like he had a horrid virus but worked really well. When he was bad we used it all the time. It helps by the pollen etc sticking to the vaseline therefore not entering. Shaker guard works really well as well.

Nostrilvet