My bleeding heart nose
MEET THE EXPERT
LEONA BRAMALL MVB CertAVP(EM) MRCVS, an equine vet at Oakhill Veterinary Centre in Lancashire, holds an advanced veterinary practitioner certificate in equine medicine. Her primary areas of interest lie in foal medicine, dermatology and gastrointestinal disease. Visit oakhill-vets.com/equine.
SEEING YOUR HORSE with a nosebleed for the first time can be both alarming and distressing, whether it’s just a trickle of blood exiting from one nostril, or profuse bleeding from both. Nosebleeds, also known as epistaxis, occasionally occur in equines, but fortunately most cases