There are many stages of infection: inflammation, abscess or pus, septicaemia (blood infection) and possibly eventual chronic infection.
The animal reacts powerfully in the first stage: fever, general inflammatory symptoms (redness, heat, pain, swelling or hardness), discomfort but no lesions. If treated at this stage, infections will not develop to more advanced stages.
In healthy animals, the acute phase is often observed. It is normal for inflammation to show up before infection. If antibiotics are given, they will suppress the acute phase of the struggle against infection, which will then progress to the chronic infectious phase, making recovery harder. If the inflammation is short lived, the animal fights well, spending a lot of energy, but it cannot do this indefinitely if it is to maintain high production at the same time. The most vulnerable cows are the high producers.
This phase lasts usually for 3 days.
The inflammatory reaction is a normal one in any healthy subject, after a cold spell, a heat spell, calving, fear, trauma, etc.
However, the more a cow is in acidosis (metabolic type no 1 = excess of fast sugars) the more it will be subject to inflammation in reaction to less serious causes: inflammation of the limbs, feet, womb infection, mastitis, etc…
At this stage we use FLAMESOL + another remedy according to the location of inflammation, example, acute arthritis = FLAMESOL + STRESSOL.
(Production of lesions symptoms: abscess, panaris, pus, lumps, septicaemia)
A healthy cow will try to send the infection as far as possible from the center of the body and the vital organs like the heart, to the extremities of its legs, or to the teats; it tries to expel the infection through suppuration. The external abscess can flow spontaneously or be emptied; internal abscesses however, have to reabsorb themselves, otherwise it will lead to septicaemia.
Often, the acute inflammatory phase has been suppressed, so the immune system has been weakened.
De-mineralization or an insufficient assimilation of minerals promotes chronic suppuration.
We must then stimulate mineral assimilation by giving MINSOL.
However, the real cause lies in the excess of proteins or soluble nitrogen = metabolic Type no 5, producing an overload of toxins that the body filters (liver, kidneys) cannot totally eliminate.
SCARSOL in a washing solution, i.e. 100 ml in a quart of sterile water (10 % solution). Heal up with spraying SCARSOL non diluted.
Give SEPTISOL and STAPHSOL internally, twice a day, until symptoms disappear. Give for a maximum of 10 days, then MINSOL in the morning and EDEMASOL in the evening for 3 days, wait for 10 days, and repeat Protocol if necessary, the same way.
SEPTISOL + the local product for the actual infection, twice a day, until recovery or maximum 10 days, as explained on 5.2.1.
On the wounds, once they are cleaned, use SCARSOL twice a day for fast scaring.
N.B. It is very important, not to use SCARSOL on a wound that you don’t want to see closed too fast, for example a mashed teat, or an abscess that is discharging.
It is generally a complication from wounds in the inter-digital space, a boil, and a deep abscess with sharp pain, which causes limping: the entire foot becomes swollen and is very sensitive to pressure.
FLAMESOL + SEPTISOL morning and MINSOL evening until symptoms disappear. Maximum of 10 days as explained in 5.2.1
This infection must be treated; otherwise it may poison the calf and kill it.
External Protocol: pure SCARSOL, after cleaning with a solution of 5 % SCARSOL on a clean cloth.
SEPTISOL, 5 ml morning and evening during 10 days or until recovery.
INTOXSOL with external local treatment every 2 or 4 hours during 48 hours, then twice a day for 2-3 days. Follow up with SEPTISOL + local product, twice a day until recovery.
6.2.6 Infectious mastitis
See chapter on Mastitis.
SEPTISOL + STAPHSOL, twice a day until recovery.
6.2.8 Mastitis with staphylococcus
See chapter on Mastitis.
The animal doesn’t really recover, the abscess hardens, suppuration goes on and on, the animal becomes de-mineralized, dehydrated and weak, the lesion invades and affects sane tissues; example: cellular sclerosis of the teat.
Chronic state induced by the suppression of the active phase of the illness.
De-mineralization and dehydration of the animal.
Treat the suppression:
Suppression by antibiotics: STAPHSOL, once a day for 5 days.
Suppression by vaccines: DRAINSOL+ EDEMASOL, morning and evening for 5 days.
Re-mineralize the animal and the affected tissues:
MINSOL in the case of general demineralization, once a day for 5 days.
MINSOL + local product for the affected organ (ex. EDEMASOL for the udder), once a day for 5 days; repeat if necessary for 5 days the following month, then 2 or 3 days a month until satisfactory improvement.
Various bacteria can induce a granular infection or the jaw and the soft tissues in the tongue and the palate. This can eventually spread to the stomach. There is first a gradual or sudden swelling of the bone at the junction of the jaws, called “fat bone”. Even the tongue may thicken and harden. Glands in the throat can be affected. Eventually, the animal becomes unable to open its mouth and eat correctly. The growing tumour may reach the size of a football.
Actinomycosis is caused by a bacteria associated to a pre-toxic bacteria. It generally starts with a small wound in the mouth, and the surrounding tissues become affected.
JAWSOL + SEPTISOL morning and evening, for 10 days, DRAINSOL for 3 days. Repeat this Protocol 5 days, every 2 weeks, until the jawbone is completely healed. It may take 2 to 6 months to completely heal depending on the size of the injury.
Always very serious, it appears abruptly in the first 1 to 4 days following normal calving or an abortion – contagious and fatal, 50% of the time. Sadness, depression, lack of appetite, no rumination or milk secretion; The animal strains to expulse a nauseous, reddish liquid that soils the vagina and vulva which becomes infected, swollen and very sensitive to touch.
Contamination by E. Coli in the birth canal, especially in a weakened subject, in a state of ruminal instability (metabolic Type no. 9) or inefficient immune system.
METSOL+INTOXSOL, every hour, until the general state gets better (between 4 to 6 hours) then morning and evening for 2 days. Continue with FLUSHSOL+ SEPTISOL in the morning and METSOL+ SEPTISOL in the evening, until symptoms have disappeared. It is recommended to apply FLUSHSOL and METSOL directly on the vulva.
Consequence of a laborious calving, a miscarriage, a late or incomplete delivery, or of clumsy or repeated manipulations. Discharge of a foul smelling, infected, sometimes bloody liquid from a swollen vulva, especially when the animal is lying down and tries to relieve the local irritation with useless efforts to evacuate the secretions.
The cows that are mostly affected by this type of infection of the uterus are those in a state of excessive fermentable energy = excess of fast sugars = acidosis (metabolic Type no. 1), often associated to an excess of fine fibres (metabolic type no. 9) or a lack of effective long fibres (metabolic Type no. 12).
FLUSHSOL and SEPTISOL morning and evening on the first day, then METSOL and SEPTISOL twice a day until the symptoms have disappeared. It is recommended to apply METSOL and FLUSHSOL directly on the vulva.
Also treat the chronic cause with FLAMESOL, DRAINSOL or MINSOL depending which cause. A feeding correction is necessary if the problem occurs frequently.
Any metritis has the potential to become chronic. The animal is in an altered state: sadness, lack of appetite, weight loss, accelerated respiration, lower milk production that can lead to spontaneous drying up. Fertility problems with production of clear, whitish or yellowish secretions that stick to the tail, often instead of heat, or between periods of inefficient heat.
The cows that are mostly affected by this type of late inflammation or infection are:
a) on the one hand, de-mineralized cows, in a state of lack of general energy, (metabolic Type no. 4): eject clear non-infected secretions.
b) and on the other hand, cows in a state of excess of protein or fermentable soluble nitrogen (metabolic Type no. 5): irritating infected discharges (because of the excess of ammonia).
Protocol:
a) de-mineralized type: MINSOL+ METSOL in the morning, MINSOL in the evening, until discharges stop (at least 5 days).
b) Infectious, irritated type: SEPTISOL+ METSOL in the morning and DRAINSOL in the evening, twice a week until the infection has disappeared,
then MINSOL morning and evening until absence of any clear discharge.
Labo Solidago has been offerering since 1990 solutions to dairy farmers whose cows, sheeps or goats suffer from different ailments like mastitis, acute mastitis or toxic mastitis or chronic mastitis, footrot, different infections, like vaginitis or metritis, pneumonia and bronchitis, arthritis, acidosis and acetonemia, retention of the placenta, with signs like high somatic cell counts (leucocytes), slow growth and diarrhea in calves and cows.