Young dyspepsia is an acute digestive upset in the first 10 days of life, characterized by toxicosis, uncompensated loss due to diarrhea of ββwater, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and other elements. This pathology occurs due to insufficient feeding of females (especially carotene), leading to inferiority of colostrum , underdevelopment of the digestive organs in newborns (at birth hypotrophic (calves with low weight) are not able to digest the daily supply of colostrum more than 1/10 of their mass). Also, dyspepsia of young animals occurs as a result of drinking the first portion of colostrum later than 2 hours after birth, giving colostrum from dirty dishes, from cows with mastitis , endometritis , in the absence of veterinary sanitary standards for keeping newborns.
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Clinical picture
There are two forms of the disease - simple and toxic. With simple dyspepsia in animals, a decrease in appetite, depression. Patients lie in a thoracic position, shudder periodically, sniff their stomach, trying to hit him. After 1-2 days, diarrhea appears. Feces are watery, yellow in color, with different shades. The forecast is favorable.
Toxic dyspepsia is more often observed in the first 3 days of life, characterized by a complete loss of appetite, a decrease in rectal temperature, cooling of the skin of the ears, limbs, oral mucosa, and fatigue. The animal at the end of the disease occupies a forced lateral position. Constant diarrhea of ββa watery consistency develops with a fetid odor, sometimes with whitish or orange mucus. The prognosis of the disease is unfavorable.
Diagnostics
The diagnosis is made on the basis of an anamnesis, analysis of the conditions of keeping and feeding mothers and offspring, clinical signs, autopsy results, as well as bacteriological and virological studies of corpses in order to exclude infectious diseases. [one]
Pathological changes
As a rule, the corpse is exhausted, hungry pits sunken, the back of the body, the tail is stained with feces. The contents of the stomach have an acidic or putrid odor, gray in color, dense lumps of casein are often visible, a lot of mucus. The intestines are usually infantile, empty or contain chyme with a large admixture of mucus. The mucous membrane of the digestive tract is hyperemic to varying degrees, the spleen, liver are not enlarged, the latter is unevenly colored from light brown to dark red. [one]
Treatment
When such symptoms appear, as many errors as possible in feeding the uterine livestock, and in feeding the newborns are excluded. The main focus of treatment is to compensate for losses caused by diarrhea, giving saline solutions, and in case of toxic form - intravenous drip or intraperitoneally isotonic solutions of sodium bicarbonate and sodium chloride at 40 ml / kg body weight. Also shown are antibiotics , sulfonamides and nitrofuran preparations, taking into account the sensitivity to them of microflora secreted from the gastrointestinal tract, as well as vitamins, microflora recovery agents and other means.
Prevention
Prevention of dyspepsia includes optimizing the conditions of keeping and feeding pregnant animals, creating appropriate conditions for keeping and colostrum feeding newborns, and general hygiene measures.
Notes
- β 1 2 B.V. Usha et al. Internal diseases of animals. - M .: KolosS, 2010 .-- 311 p.
Literature
- Dorosh M. "Diseases of cattle." Vega. ISBN 5-9533-1681-x .