Has anyone dealt with persistent sinusitis that would not go away?
Horse has been dealing with this on and off for months. Antibiotics have cleared it up in the past and then it comes right back.
Horse had his sinuses opened up surgically in May (he went to our Vet School) and we continued to flush his sinuses at home, plus giving him 2 different antibiotics. His head was xrayed and CTed and Ultrasounded at the time of surgery. There was a questionable tooth, but it was deemed not the cause of the issue. Everything cleared up and has been healing extremely well.
It is now 2 months later and he is showing signs of infection yet again. I do not want to keep throwing antibiotics at him.
Should we look deeper at the tooth? I really am at a loss of what direction to go in. He’s only 9, and a show horse and while of course I want him back to competing, I want to do what is best for him given his young age.
Last November my horse had sinusitis. she obviously caught a strepptococus bacteria and her head was opened 3 times. She spend 3 months at the vet and I was loosing hope that she would ever heal again. The vet finally send her home and recommended a dust free environment. So far she is doing great. But I assume it takes a long time to heal. She is only 8
Thank you - how did you get her in a dust free environment?
I would investigate that tooth again.
Same. My immediate thought was maybe it’s an infected tooth. I looked after a gelding that had awful smelling discharge from one of his nostrils. The smell was something was terrible. He was initially treated with antibiotics, which seemed to help, albeit very briefly (and very little too). Once the course of antibiotics was finished, gelding turned up again with smelly nasal discharge. He was taken to the vet hospital for more extensive X-rays, a bad tooth was found to be the culprit. It was pretty nasty stuff.
Thank you. That is my inclination as well. I am having the radiologist take another look at an updated CT we got last week to hopefully confirm that the tooth is still looking off, or confirm that it looks better. Unfortunately where the tooth is located would be pretty invasive to remove so that will be a tough road if that’s the cause.
I had a very much loved Hackney pony who got persistent sinus infections at the age of 29. Antibiotics would clear it up, then it would come back. We went round and round on this until the vet said he thought it was probably a tumor in his sinus. Given the age of the pony, I didn’t want to do anything invasive, so I had him euthanized. I still miss him terribly.
Rebecca
