Give FLUSHSOL right away in the mouth, or even on the vulva, 10ml, every 30 minutes, 3 times.
Repeat morning and evening together with SEPTISOL, to avoid infection from the rotting placenta for 10 days. Usually all will be clear in one week.
Give FLUSHSOL + MINSOL every 2 hours.
When the due date has arrived and calving readiness is visible, give FLUSHSOL + MINSOL every 30 minutes, 3 times. This will initiate labour, rather than waiting and facing a very difficult calving at a later date, when the calf is oversized…
N.B.: For large calves, the process should not be accelerated with FLUSHSOL. Better to let things happen naturally. STRESSOL can help to open the cervix, 2 doses at the beginning of calving, then once every 30 minutes.
16.3 Leg arthritis after calving:
Acute inflammation of the joints; the legs are shaking. FLAMESOL + STRESSOL morning and evening, 5 days.
16.4 Miscarriage:
Premature delivery, following a trauma, intoxication or genital infection.
Protocol: SEPTISOL + FLUSHSOL, on the first day, morning and evening; then SEPTISOL + METSOL morning and evening for 3 days.
Preventively (in case of repeated miscarriages), ABORTSOL one day, morning and evening;
Treat the cause if it is known: uterine infection, neospora, I.B.R. etc.
16.5 Difficult calving:
Preventively: STRESSOL + SEPTISOL, in the evening for a week before and on the day of delivery.
Following the calving, give STRESSOL for 3 to 5 days, 1 or 2 times a day, and SEPTISOL if energy goes down.
The most consistently found symptom in milk fever cases is a low blood calcium level, which drops in the blood serum from a normal of about 10 mg/100 ml to 3 to 7 mg/100 ml. Treatment in all cases attempts to bring the serum calcium level to normal. At the onset, the cow may exhibit some unsteadiness as she walks. More frequently, the cow is found lying down with her head displaced to one side or turned into the flank. Other symptoms commonly observed are depression, eyes dull and staring, pupils dilated, subnormal to normal temperature, cold ears, slight muscle spasms, sleepy attitude, inability to rise, and increased pulse rate—50 to 85 per minute. In advanced cases of milk fever, there is a complete paralysis and coma followed by death. When coma approaches, the cow will lie on her side. Bloat usually occurs if the cow remains in this position very long.
Mineral imbalance, the proportion of the five basic minerals, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium and potassium (+ cobalt and copper) is not in balance, which inhibits the absorption of these elements.
Also, milk fever incidents at calving can be caused by an overloaded liver and a deficiency in the metabolism of phosphorus; by resumption of high production too soon after calving, by the demineralization of big milk producers as they age.
Prevention:
Systematically using calcium injection gives fast results, but at the cost of cardiac and general weakening of the animal, which never fully recovers.
The best strategy is the Yearly prevention plan.
Protocol:
MINSOL 4 times a day for 3 to 5 days for mineral and protein assimilation and calcium metabolism.
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