This is scary that there were no replys to this and I'm curious how this horse is now. Horses can get nose bleeds for many reasons and depending on the other symptoms and activities can give a feel for what it was. In race horses a nose bleed can be the beginning of the end, our standard died one week after his nose started to bleed and he went lathargic and sick very fast, I mean like less then twentyfour hours. A week we fed him antibiotics and he came back really well. On the vets word we took him off and he was dead the next day, nurilogical, unconfirmed westnile.
Sometimes, if heavy activity before hand, it can be a sign of bleeding in the lungs, which requires some drugs to help heal the lung linning and time laid off to recover. This too is very common in race horses, in fact anytime you hear in a race that a horse is running with lazex, that is a sure fire sign that horse bleeds during or after their races.
Truma to the nose, a bump on a fence, a kick to the face, anything like that. Yes pollen or any irritable inhaled substance can cause it. Burst blood vessel, but that should be looked at. Personally, I would change my vet. When our boy got his our vet was already on an emergency call, she stopped her truck and turned around rushing to our home. She was there for over three hours with a vet collage, I was in the hospital with my new born baby less then a few hours old. We were charged for an hour visit and milage and the drug, a good vet is not only willing to come out but willing to consider everything.
Please, please, in vestigate your vet like you would you accountant or family doctor or contractor, its very important, in this area we have one horse vet that has cost two lives I know of personally and misdiagnosed another that almost cost another horses life. Ask for names, refrences, other farms that use them. Talk to your vet, if they look at you like your an idiot, change vets, they should be willing to take into consideration of everything, including your thoughts.
Anyway, I'll stop now, but drop us a line and let us know how your horse is, I hope everything cleared up alright.
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