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Last night my neighbour was up all night with his wife's horse, a 
retired French Trotter, who is at least 15 years old.  The horse, 
Cisbeo, is a fit, well-cared for and well rounded gelding. He does some 
trail riding, works dressage, and does small jumps. He isn't working 
very hard these days since his owner is in France for a month doing 
exams.  He has previously had nosebleeds that initially seemed to be 
connected to work in heat.  Then he had some nosebleeds when he was in 
the box and the weather was hot.  Last night about 11:30 his nose 
started bleeding and didn't stop bleeding until morning.  It's 
relatively cool at night here right now, about 20 C.  (That's in the 
low 70's I think.) Morad gave him a shot of Vitamin K (horse sized) 
which didn't really make much difference. The bleeding wasn't life 
threatening, but Morad is worried about the possible cause of the 
bleeding.  Previously it was happening in a much more minor degree when 
he was in the box and the weather was hot.  Working isn't a factor. The 
obvious thing is to leave Cisbeo outside as much as possible, but that 
still doesn't answer the question.  Are there any tests, blood or 
otherwise, that we could do that might help tell us what is going on?  
Any suggestins gratefully received.

BTW, his vet is currently in the US for the next month studying sugical 
techniques and there really isn't another decent one around.  So 
calling the vet is out.  One thing that Morad did do was following a 
suggestion from Tom Ivers' book, The Fit Race Horse, which was to place 
a tampon on which some adrenaline had been dropped. This is supposed to 
help nosebleeds that originate in the lungs.  He wasn't impressed.

Maryanne
Cairo, Egypt

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