> -> > I wonder if you horse has
 > -> > an infection going on up there that he just can't kick.
 > ->
 > -> That could be too ..... but if the nasal discharge is
 > -> clear then it's more than likey allergys ....
 >
 >      Yes, but it'd be on both sides.  His horse just has
 > a drip out of one side.
 
Karin, you've said it:  why does this horse have a drip out of just the one 
side?  Doesn't it seem more likely that a systemic problem such as an allergy 
would cause his nose to run on both sides?  I know from my own experience 
with something I suspect is a food allergy 
-- I get congested all over, not just one one side of my nose.  ;-)
 
If the drip is on one side, and only one side, then I say, there has to be 
something physical on that one side which is causing the drip that is absent 
on the other side.  Otherwise he'd be getting the discharge out of both 
nostrils.  Don't know if it's a blockage, a tumor, an abcess, a foreign 
object, or what, but *something* has to be going on there.
 
Note to all:  read a ghastly news item in the new issue of EQUUS about some 
racehorses in Kentucky who had been tampered with.  Wanna guess what some 
fool did in order to make these horses not run well and thus screw up the 
race?
 
The horses had sponges shoved up their nose.  Yeah, you read that right, I 
said pieces of sponge.
 
If an endoscopy hasn't been done on this poor horse to check for a foreign 
body, I say it's long past time.  There are plenty of things which could get 
into a horse's nose, especially on a windy day, that might not come back out 
again.  I'm thinking of some grass and weed seeds that have burrs on them and 
would latch onto the soft tissue and stay there, no matter what.
 
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