{"id":60,"date":"2026-07-11T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/?p=60"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:32:58","slug":"we-put-a-needle-through-this-horses-skull-to-flush-his-sinus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"We Put a Needle Through This Horse&#8217;s Skull to Flush His Sinus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ollie, a 23-year-old champion hunter\/jumper, has been battling a chronic sinus infection with recurring nasal discharge from his right nostril.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kOfmYMWEfSI?si=iKmzYG9D6jz5SAL0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Dr. Jenna is joined by colleague Dr. \u00c9rica Pich\u00e9. They perform a sinus flush using a specialized needle that passes through the bone into the sinus cavity to help clear infection and inflammation. Will this less-invasive procedure solve Ollie&#8217;s problem? Watch as we walk through the diagnosis, treatment, and the surprising amount of mucus that comes out during the flush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ollie, a 23-year-old champion hunter\/jumper, has been battling a chronic sinus infection with recurring nasal discharge from his right nostril. In this episode, Dr. Jenna is joined by colleague Dr. \u00c9rica Pich\u00e9. They perform a sinus flush using a specialized needle that passes through the bone into the sinus cavity to help clear infection and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equinevetlife.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}