Table 8.

The distribution of complications reported by respondents who used nosebands, ranked from least number of responses to most. In total, 552 respondents reported one or more complications, with 939 individual complications recorded. The per cent of respondents who reported a complication is represented in the third column, with the per cent of the complication out of the total number of complications reported in the fourth column.

Complication	Number of Responses	% of Respondents (n = 434)	% of Responses (n = 939)
Reduced appetite	5	1.2	0.5
Bleeding from the mouth	20	4.6	2.1
Dropping food	33	7.6	3.5
Swelling of the area under the noseband	39	9.0	4.2
Discolouration of the area under the noseband	50	11.5	5.3
Head shyness	57	13.1	6.1
Soreness in the area under the noseband	62	14.3	6.6
Lip injuries	64	14.7	6.8
Behavioural signs of anxiety/distress	79	18.2	8.4
Difficulty bridling the horse	105	24.2	11.2
Other	124	28.6	13.2
Difficulty fastening the noseband	128	29.5	13.6
Hair loss in the area under the noseband	173	39.9	18.4