ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] Hives - Vitamin Therapy ?

Re: [endurance] Hives - Vitamin Therapy ?

RUN4BEAR@aol.com
Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:36:19 -0500

I had a mare develope "bumps" at a ride.

Actually I rode 25 of a 50 and her recoveries were bad, but veternarian
acceptable (not to me...I know the horse), so I pulled her. The next morning
she had bumps all over her body..itchy!!! 15 cc Banamine made her more
comfortable and the bumps went down in a few days, but each bump had a small
scab on it (literally thousands all over her body!!) When they came off it
looked like she had chicken pox. I took her on another 50 2 weeks later to a
whopping third place finish (chicken pox marks and all) and everything was
fine.

My only guess is that we were camped in a cattle pasture and she ate or
rolled in something as it never happened again.

Teddy