| There are lots of anti-allergy
remedies on the market, with and without prescription,
standard/chemical medications and alternative meds like
homeopathic and herbs.
Some horse owners have tried the remedies with good
results for the period given, a big relief for some allergic
horses with HS. In other horses, they didn't work at
all.
Be aware if a company promise a cure
with one supplement only!!!!
One company is telling the following, as one owner
reported : "I spoke to V. at ......... and she said
the trigeminal nerve which runs down his face is stimulated
by sunlight, and his nostril hypersensitive to pollen which
causes him to shake his head in pain"
This is completely wrong!!! Why
companies spread something like that, I can only assume, but
it sure doesn't help the customer's horses and is very
misleading!
Point 1.
The trigeminal nerve has 3 branches, of which one of them
takes care of most all functions (like closing and opening
of the eye lid) in the upper part of the skull, and it is
ending in the nostril. It is called the infraorbital branch.
Have a look here: www.headshaker.eu/en/tn.html
. BUT the branches are connected with each other
at the root, the reason why ALL horses have a painful upper
nostril area.
Point 2.
There are three types of HS, photic, seasonal and
idiopathic. All these types are explained, please go to the Research
section. Not every horse is photic, it can be seasonal as
well with more sensitivity to light, but still not photic.
Point 3.
And because he might be photic or seasonal, doesn't mean in
general his nostrils are sensitive to pollen automatically.
Any HS type can be allergic, not only a photic.
Point 4.
Pollen doesn't cause pain, the pollen acts for example as
mucous membrane irritant, cause the membrane to become
"wound" and inflamed. It can be anywhere in the
nasal passages, in the eye tissues, in the throat tissues
aso. It is a hypersensitivity of the immune system, not the
trigeminal nerve and its branches.
Point 5.
It is still unknown if allergies are a true cause for HS
among other causes, more likely it is that the immune system
was long before suppressed - instable - weak, long before
the horse showed any symptoms of any kind. Then at some
point, for example: when the nerve is under-nourished for a
long time, with that being damaged, the symptoms come to
"daylight", including the allergies with HS at the
same time. Or the allergies first, HS follows. Or HS first
due to other causes then allergies on top of it.
The reason why so many other remedies
only working a little against HS or in few horses only is
the following: many companies selling symptom relieving
remedies only, meaning with a certain homeopathic remedy a
certain trigger will be suppressed.
On and off one remedy 'hits' the right trigger and the HS
disappears for a while, but often comes back even stronger.
From the UK and Germany I know for sure, that a lot of
horses suffering allergies and HS (Trigeminal Neuralgia) and
that hundreds of horses where treated with allergy remedies.
I don't know of any horse which has been cured by it.
Maybe there is one, but so far, the horse's owner has not
come forward and the companies cannot name any references
for cured horses. I have asked over and over, NEVER received
ANY references, otherwise they would be listed here!
It is a very difficult
disorder/neuralgia. Everyone wants to find a cure, everyone
offers something. Some things help to dampen the symptoms,
to lessen the pain, some others have success in some horses,
some other products are plain useless, like devises patched
on the horse's coat or magnet clips attached to horse's
manes or purified water and this so called communicating
with the horse. So far non of the people I spoke to, which
tried the latter, can say, their horses where cured by it.
Often one thinks a certain treatment has done the job, but
in reality lots of things might have changed in your horses
environment and in it's body. No horse is the same!! Makes
it even more difficult as it is for human with the same
neuralgia, since they can tell where it hurts and how it
feels.
Because people have asked, I wrote
down the ingredients of Alleosal, an often prescribed German
anti allergy remedy:
1 vial a` 2 ml
Apis mellifica Dil. C6 200
mg
Arsenicum iodatum Dil. C12 200mg
Urtica (HAB 34) Dil. C6 200 mgbr> Natrium chloride, water
as injection fluid
Injection type: s.c., i.m., i.v.
As being told by lots of users for their
horses, the remedy was injected every two days to keep
allergy symptoms down, so again it covers up only.
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