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I am proud to announce that, after 18 months of work, we are now ready to offer our new formulas 2010. As you have probably noticed, health problems that affect your animals have changed, have evolved. For instance, in 1990, most udder problems were with streptococcus, everything got solved with an antibiotic ( or Septisol-Flamesol with no milk withdrawal). In 2000, it was a lot of staphylococcus aureus, more complicated to resolve, it was becoming resistant to antibiotics…
Now, in 2010, a close relative of penicilin, the mycoplasm, comes in to complicate the picture, it sets in, shake the viruses, wakes them u p, and we are faced with yeasts, and things with names like ‘actinobacterium’ and ‘pseudomonas’. We had to evolve, we kept on evolving, an evolution that looks like a revolution.
Our twelve new formulas will simplify the advice and also the lives of the handlers who take care of the herd, results will be even more spectacular. At first, we were putting fires out, in curative, then, we started to work in prevention. Now, the program we present to you is essentially in prevention. All is there!
The basis of the whole plan consists of strenghtening the constitution, so that the organism fonctions at its best.
So, here is an individualized plan, adapted to the conditions found on your farm, which will stimulate, reinforce, and clean so that health comes to stay. When and if symptoms come out, the same new formulas will work in curative mode with a great efficiency, even more than the old ones. These will stay available for those who prefer to work with familiar protocols. For a few months.
Our health plan is still based on
We clean the filters, liver, spleen, pancreas, skin, with 2 days of INTOXSOL, 3 days of DRAINSOL , and 2 days of EDEMASOL to drain the lymphatic system, all the waste go there after an infection, a production or toxins in the food, it provides a convalescence after.
Right after, we encourage assimilation of minerals and proteins with MINSOL, a period of 5 days the first time, and a two days period after each drainage.
In preparation for the winter, SEPTISOL MYCOSOL (to prevent surinfections with the presence of mycoplasm, an activator of viruses) and , VIRALSOL will stimulate the immune system.
PARASITESOL at new and full moon will maintain parasites population at controled levels with SEPTISOL, INTOXSOL and LUNGSOL
To desensitize from antibiotics, for the staphylococcus and high cell count, for all chronic conditions, STAPHSOL
For the herds richly fed grains, with the presence of toxins, or with not enough fibers, the drainage and remineralization will be more frequent than in herds fed with roughage. This frequency will be adjusted to your farm with the visible signs on the animals, like the color of udders, of eyes and noses, mastitis, vitality, appetite, production and reproduction. The eye will get used to detect the drainage signal every month, every 3 months, depending on colors.
Finally, in complement , FLAMESOL to prevent and cure inflammations, LUNGSOL for herds that are sensitive to pulmonary conditions. STRESSOL at calving and in case of shock.
in prevention, will help maintain the well being of the animals, will help to correct feeding mistakes and will prevent sequels. In curative, more simple, more efficient. That’s it!
For the rest, nothing has changed, we are still faced with ruminants, their nature must be respected : dry hay, 2 kg twice a day, 20-30 minutes before the rest of the feed. Adjust down the quantities of grains and supplements, raise the young ones as ruminants (milk and dry hay only). In curative, less and less problems in animals maintained in better shape, even more efficient formulas, and magistral formulas for particular cases. In conclusion, herds with raising average age, with a better quality of life for them, and also for the owner, with, as a bonus, a growing profitability.
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THE 12 ESSENTIELS
DRAINSOL general drainage at season changes and after curative treatments, helps to evacuate toxins and waste from the organism which is often overworked, used with Intoxsol and Edemasol.
EDEMASOL Central remedy of sub-acute mastitis or clinical mastitis. Convalescence of acute mastitis. Important product for chronic mastitis and presence of staphylococcus (high somatic cells count). For all oedema type swelling.
FLAMESOL general anti-inflammatory product (arthrite) and the central product for inflammatory acute mastitis of traumatic origin or from calving.
INTOXSOL For intoxications like acetonemia, food poisoning and acute infectious mastitis (E. Coli, Staphylococcus and corynebacterium).
LUNGSOL for barn flu, broncho-pneumonia and pneumonia, cough and trouble related with repiratory system like strongylosis.
MINSOL
prevention and treatment of chronic infections, insufficient mineral and protein assimilation, milk fever, leaky teats.
MYCOSOL . Specific of the fungus, mycoplasm and pseudomonas mastitis type, to prevent surinfections with presence of mycoplasm. Preventive for Influenza and barn flu.
PARASITESOL To treat lung and digestives parasitosis like coccydiosis, cryptosporidiosis, strongylosis etc.Use with Septisol and Intoxsol or Lungsol.
SEPTISOL . reinforces the defence mechanisms of the cattle, All types of infections, fever, lack of vitality, mastitis, metritis. To be used alone or with others formula, depending on the affected system.
STAPHSOL central product for sub-clinic mastitis staphylococcus aureus, and of any repetitive mastitis, chronic, or previously treated with antibiotics. Also used to clear antibiotics residues and boost the immune system.
STRESSOL reduce and prevent consequences of all types of physical or nervous trauma. Calming.
VIRALSOL preventive and curative of viral infections mainly at inflammatory stage, specific booster of the immune system.
ABORTSOL
To prevent miscarriage in cattle with a history or genetic make-up which could lead to a miscarriage.
CYSTSOL (Cyclesol+Cystsol)
To restart the ovarian cycle (Anoestrus) or avoid repetitive and inefficient heat and for non luteinic cysts.
DRYSOL
To insure an optimal dry off
FLUSHSOL
Reinforcement of the animal in cases of retained placenta, acute infection of the uterus, spasms and stoppage of labour during calving, non-dilatation of the cervix and of the uterus.
To control calving: it stimulates labour and delivery, prevents infections.
HEATSOL
For silent heat.
JAWSOL
To fight actinomycosis and actinobacillosis, responsible for this jaw disorder. (Jawbone Swelling)
METSOL
Metritis protocol of vaginitis and of chronic uterine infections and their complications. These accidents almost always have an infectious origin; they appear in general many days after a calving or a few days after a mating. They are characterized by a whitish discharge coming out of a swollen hot vulva. (acute metritis happens a few days after calving, and usually smells bad, late metritis occurs about 3 to 4 weeks after calving, is white and opaque and does not smell as bad).
SCARSOL
Cleaning scars and wounds. Protocol of irritations, burning, epidermic destruction, insects’ bites. Disinfection, stop bacteria’s multiplication. Helps healing scars.
SKINSOL
Protocol of ringworm (barn itch) and mycosis, mites, scabies, warts A solution to warts, skin and mucous formations, associated or not with foot rot.
The results may not be visible before 10 to15 days after the end of the protocol. Some warts are very resistant, others are older, larger and very numerous.
Inflammatory illness affecting the joints, mainly the knees among bovines. Often there is swelling, even heat in the knee and calf joints, there may be fever. The animal may limp or have trouble moving, and the limps are partly bent at rest. Its legs shake when it rises, which is caused by pain.
This type of arthritis often follows navel infection
Protocol: FLAMESOL + SEPTISOL in the morning, DRAINSOL in the evening, for 10 days on the first month, 5 days on the second month, then 3 days every month until the symptoms completely disappear. Also treat the chronic cause by modifying the feeding.
For calves, this illness is often complicated by septic scours.
Protocol for scours complications: SEPTISOL + LUNGSOL alternately with LUNGSOL + INTOXSOL, 3-4 times a day for the first 48 hours. Then, SEPTISOL + LUNGSOL in the morning, LUNGSOL + INTOXSOL in the evening for at least 3 days. Complete with LUNGSOL and SEPTISOL morning and evening, during 5 days or until symptoms disappear.
All problems with the superior respiratory system (nose, throat, larynx) can be treated like bronchitis:
Protocol: LUNGSOL + SEPTISOL 2 times a day for 5 to10 days, until symptoms disappear.
Constitution is, independently from environmental changes in the animal’s life, the main factor affecting its overall health condition. It determines the degree of absorption of nutrients and the fundamental reaction to aggression.
→The carbonic constitution: a large frame with ample musculature. This is the ideal type for meat production but usually indicates less milk production (the cow produces meat instead of milk), especially if the organs in charge of elimination are overloaded. Thus the necessity to drain often this type of milk cow.
→The phosphoric constitution: longer, thinner frame.
Among younger animals, rickets is an illness that stops or slows the process of calcification, with skeleton deformations, swollen, warm and painful joints (leading to arthritis), curving of the limbs or the spine, causing difficulty walking. Growth is altered and deformations are permanent.
Natural for phosphoric contitutions, de-mineralization of dams and calves, nutrition deficiency in nurse milk in the first six months of growth, deficiency in effective fibre (metabolic type no 12) that would develop a sturdy rumen.
MINSOL once a day during 10 days in the 1st month, 5 days the 2nd month, 3 days the third month and 2 days from the fourth to the sixth months of age. For younger calves, the growth deficit can be rapidly recovered.
in a lineage that has a tendency to produce fat, retain its milk, and develop cysts:
Carbonic heredity (heavy), sycosis following vaccines, excess of slow or fast fermentable fibres (metabolic Types no 1 and 2), or excess of fine digestible fibres (Type no 9).
a) For individual animals: DRAINSOL+ FLAMESOL twice a day for 2 days. Once a week in the first month, then once a months for 3 to 6 months.
b) For the lineage: during gestation, DRAINSOL, twice a day, two days in each month of gestation. Three weeks before calving, give DRAINSOL once a day for 3 days.
a) acute, following a difficult calving, especially on fat subjects or those who have put on weight quickly: STRESSOL, in the morning, EDEMASOL + MINSOL, in the evening 3 days in a row.
b) chronic acidosis= excess of rapidly digesting energy (metabolic Type no 1) FLAMESOL + DRAINSOL morning and evening, 2 days a week for 1 month. Be sure to give a good quantity of long dry hay.
through assimilation of proteins by meat cattle or thin cows.
a) Thin dairy cows: Following demineralization during gestation: Give MINSOL, 3 days as soon as you see she does not gain enough weight, or at the beginning of gestation, then once a month for every month of gestation.
→A deficiency in long structural fibre (dry hay) is an important cause of poor digestion and assimilation of carbohydrates and proteins in the ration (metabolic Type no 12).
MINSOL, once a day for 3 days, then once a week for a month or more.
→If there is also an excess of sugar (Type no 1) the ruminal instability problem is aggravated by acidosis
Give FLAMESOL for 2 days, DRAINSOL for 2 days, MINSOL for 2 days, and then each once a week for one month.
b) Fattening of beef:
MINSOL once a week.
Difficult problem in calves since it rapidly causes dehydration and loss of minerals.
Appears 24-72 hours after birth. Sudden and violent, whitish, then grey and even blackish, sometimes aggravated by bronco-pneumonia.
: Lack of modified colostrum (immuni-milk) at birth, incomplete mechanical absorption of milk (bucket on the ground level), humid straw and drafts at ground level.
INTOXSOL+SEPTISOL, alternate with FLAMESOL + INTOXSOL, every 2 or 4 hours (according to seriousness) during the next 48 hours, then 2 times a day until symptoms disappear.
Aqueous yellow diarrhea, sometimes striated with blood, with very rapid deterioration of the calf, at 24 to 48 hours after birth.
Subjects with weak immune systems, direct contact at birth, vaccination against E-coli.
INTOXSOL+SEPTISOL alternated with INTOXSOL+ FLAMESOL 4 to 6 times the first 2 days then 2 times per day until symptoms disappear.
See Preventive plan
Bowel inflammation in calves aged around 3 weeks caused by bacteria.
The diarrhea is whitish, then greenish, bloody and foul smelling.
Lack of modified colostrum (immuni-milk) at birth, indigestion from milk and feed, overfeeding.
SEPTISOL + FLAMESOL in the morning, INTOXSOL +DRAINSOL in the evening until symptoms disappear.
Affects mainly adults, bovines sent late into wet humid pasture fields where one can find irritant or toxic plants. Bloody and irritating diarrhea.
Intoxication by toxic or very green plants, cold humidity.
FLAMESOL + INTOXSOL morning and INTOXSOL+SEPTISOL evening until symptoms disappear.
N.B: When diarrhea persists for a long time, especially for calves, dehydration and mineral loss must be countered: give a re-mineralization Protocol by giving MINSOL once a day during 5 days, and re-hydrate with a saline solution.
Affecting rectal and digestive mucous membranes, mainly in the summer, this illness has a viral origin and is very contagious. Calves are its main victims; there is high fever (108 degrees F), rapid pulse, with clear mucus flowing from everywhere: nose, mouth, rectum; this mucus progressively becomes infected. Rapid breathing accompanied by a cough. Within 48 hours, the mucous membranes in the nose become a bright pink color and small ulcers grow in and on the muzzle. Those ulcers also invade the interior of the lips and the palate. There is abundant salivation, an extremely liquid and abundant scours, causing dehydration, and eventually death.
Cause: A weak immune system, repeated vaccinations, a long spell of warm temperatures, an excess of rapidly digestible energy at the intestinal levels.
Consult metabolic Type 1, 9, 12.
Protocol: VIRALSOL + LUNGSOL alternated every half hour with INTOXSOL+DRAINSOL 4 to 6 times the first 2 days then 2 times a day until symptoms disappear.
See the Preventive plan
Choose full moon and dark moon for your interventions.
it is a parasite that invades the cell walls of the intestines, affecting 89% of the herds. Newborn calves are especially susceptible and the first few days of life are the most critical. During the first six weeks, the parasite reproduces, releasing eggs, which invade other cells of the intestine, causing inflammation and affecting nutrient absorption. The fusariosa rosea, toxin frequently found in the corn silage can be an aggravating factor. Contamination by external sources is also possible (people or animals). Scours are yellow and very liquidy and can turn greenish or bloody, from 4 to 10 days. Young calves usually succumb to dehydration. It is thus necessary to give a preventive Protocol to the mother and the calf, around the critical period, at calving, in priority:
Coccidida infect the cells of the intestines and multiply inside the cells until the cell explodes and the coccidida infect other intestinal cells. Giardia also infects the intestinal tract but do not reside inside the cells but attach to the outside of them. Both coccidida and giardia can survive outside the host for 12 months and 6 months respectively. Coccidiose is present in 100% of the herds, whereas Giardia in 46%. Signs of infestation are greenish liquid scours, sometimes bloody, lasting for a period of 5-6 days (coccidiose) or pasty or semi-fluid manure appearing every two days (giardiose). This will cause dehydration and stunt growth. To avoid infection it is critical to follow the proper protocol in order to protect the young at birth. It is also important to support the immune system to prevent secondary infections from bacteria or viruses, which join in with the protozoa, like rotavirus and BVD.
Mothers and Calves see the Preventive plans
Morning PARASITESOL+INTOXSOL
Noon PARASITESOL+SEPTISOL
Evening PARASITESOL+MINSOL
Morning PARASITESOL+DRAINSOL
Noon PARASITESOL+LUNGSOL
Evening PARASITESOL+MINSOL
Morning PARASITESOL+SEPTISOL
Noon PARASITESOL+MINSOL
Until symptoms disappear
c.
this form of strongles is contracted mostly in summer by cattle in free stall barns. Young stock from 4 to 24 months is especially susceptible and losses can be significant. Partial immunity is very important to develop in this case. For this reason the protocol for strongylosis is very similar to the protocol for coccidiosis.
Mothers and Calves see the Preventive plans
c.<2>2) Digestive strongyloses, fasciolose and babebiose (or piroplasmosis):
the development of these parasites is influenced by the method of production, i.e. pasture. This will affect all young animals in first and second seasons of grazing; animals older than two years enjoy a specific partial immunity because of the balance between host-parasite. Several factors can negatively influence the development of this immunity: wet and cold weather conditions, repeated deworming protocols (less than 4 months apart), bad pasture rotation management, cow-calf separation, prolonged pasture in the fall, calving in winter (maximum contamination in August after weaning) or in spring (not enough contacts with the parasites).
- Administer the Preventive plan above to calves and heifers up to two years of age at critical times, such as at the start and end of the pasturing season. Repeat in times of large climatic change.
This is a bacterial disease (Mycobacterium avium subsp. Para tuberculosis) that is robust and that also mutates easily, which causes a severe and chronic swelling (evolving to necroses) of the lymphatic nodes mesenteric (intestinal) and ileum. There is no fever at first, but the animal will experience weight loss and painful, often bloody, scours. This continuous inflammation causes infection, frequently from corynebacterium and actynomycosis type mastitis’s and can lead to septicaemia. An effective disinfectant is a combination of formol 5%, copper sulfate 5%.
A lack of immunity to this disease can be attributed to poor immunity transition from the dam onto the offspring. It is thus crucial to stimulate such immunity in the mother before calving and then to the newborn even though symptoms of the disease only appear 18 months after birth.
It is thus important, for the animals’ health or for the risks incurred for human health, to build up an efficient homeopathic protocol for the mothers and newborn calves until the 18th month of age.
Pregnant cows of less than 3 years of age:
-On pasture: Day 1, FLAMESOL, 10 ml
Day 2, MYCOSOL, 10 ml
Day 3, INTOXSOL, 10 ml
Day 4, MINSOL, 10 ml
Repeat once a month for the last 3 months of pregnancy.
-No pasture: once a month for the last 3 months of pregnancy.
Newborn calves to 3 years of age:
-On pastures: Day 1: FLAMESOL, 5ml
Day 2: MYCOSOL, 5ml
Day 3: INTOXSOL, 5ml
Day 4: MINSOL, 5 ml
Repeat once a month for 6 months, from sixth to twelfth months, once every 2 months, and from 13 to 18 months of ages, once every 3 months. Until 3 years of age, repeat the protocol twice a year, before and after the grazing season.
-No pastures: Same protocol the first month, then once a month until 6 months, then every 3 months, up to 18 months of age.
Day 1 to 7: FLAMESOL+MYCOSOL morning
INTOXSOL evening
Day 8 to 10: MINSOL morning
Fertility, being a luxury function for a cow, can be affected by various factors.
Main causes for infertility:
Hypoglycaemia during peak lactation compensated by excessive weight loss, de-mineralization, especially in winter.
Metabolic Type no 3 with deficiency in rapidly digested carbohydrates.
Metabolic Type no 7, deficiency in soluble nitrogen during peak lactation
Ask your specialist for ration evaluation.
True hypoglycaemia during peak lactation, with rumen instability. Metabolic Type no 4, general energy deficiency.
First identify and correct causes:
a) Acidify the pH if the water is too alkaline.
b) If the ovaries are small, avoid using iodine teat dip.
c) Silent heat and anoestrus:
DRAINSOL 3 times
MINSOL two times a day for 5 days
HEATSOL two times a day for 3 days, then 2 times a week until the heat come back.
d) If there is excessive iodine, small ovaries or luteinic cysts, instead of HEATSOL, give CYSTSOL twice a day for 3 days, then twice a week until in heat.
give DRAINSOL, twice, MINSOL and SEPTISOL just before and after breeding, then HEATSOL during breeding.
, this infection must first be treated with METSOL and SEPTISOL, if the discharge is white, use METSOL and SEPTISOL two times a week, for 3 weeks.
Cysts on the ovaries, thick uterus, irregular heats, nymphomania or aggressiveness.
Sycotic constitution, retention of toxins, rapid weight gain, excess of fast sugars (metabolic Type no 1, prone to swelling FLAMESOL+DRAINSOL), excess of iodine (teat dip).
Urea excess in food.
Give DRAINSOL 3 times, CYSTSOL twice a day for 5 days, MINSOL 2 times a day for 5 days, then HEATSOL, twice a day for 3 days, then twice a week until in heat.
Uterine tubes, ovaries and even uterus full of pus, persistency of the yellow mass, sometimes abdominal pain, infertility.
A side effect of artificial cycling, overloaded liver and sycotic constitution with weight gain, slow thyroid
Give DRAINSOL 3 times, CYSTSOL 2 times a day for 5 days, MINSOL 2 times a day for 5 days, EDEMASOL once a day for 3 days, then HEATSOL twice a day for 3 days, then twice a week until in heat.
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.
Temporary stomach pains, more or less violent, appearing after each meal, especially in the evening, sadness, feverishness.
Ocular mucous membranes are yellowish, the coat is lustreless, bristling; the belly is retracted, the mouth is dry and smells bad. There is a lack of appetite, or irregular appetite; alternating liquid, blackish, fetid diarrhea; evacuation is painful, and feces covered with mucosities and false membranes.
Excess of soluble proteins (= nitrogen) (metabolic type no 5), overload of the liver and intestines.
DRAINSOL + INTOXSOL morning and evening until symptoms disappear.
It mainly affects adult bovines between seasons, when the weather changes; the dilatation of the rumen causes a distension of the flank, and rumination stops.
There is often consumption of plants that are immature or hard to digest, but the root cause is rumen instability preceding the acute incident (metabolic type no 9); overloaded liver or insufficient draining.
INTOXSOL + DRAINSOL morning and evening for 2 days, and DRAINSOL morning and evening, 3 to 5 days as needed. (See metabolic type 9)
N.B. If the intoxicated cows stay outside, we can give them INTOXSOL the first day in the drinking water, (dry up the bowl or wait 3 days in order to avoid mixing 2 different products), DRAINSOL on the second day, INTOXSOL on the third day, then DRAINSOL on the fourth day.
It mainly affects calves that are nursed artificially. Appears after a meal, with stomach pains, nauseas, milkish vomit, and is often followed by diarrheic enteritis (acute inflammation of the bowels).
See chapter 2.3 scours
lack of colostrum at birth, indigestion of milk and grains, overfeeding with ruminal instability.
DRAINSOL+ INTOXSOL morning and evening, 2 to 5 days until symptoms disappear.
It often appears after intoxication, for example from alfalfa. The paunch is bloated and gases are kept in; there is a loss of appetite, depression or painful bellowing, anxiety and respiratory problems.
Protocol:
Give INTOXSOL+DRAINSOL alternated with DRAINSOL+FLAMESOL one 10 ml dose every 10 minutes until improvement, then 2 or 3 administrations hourly. Then follow up with the Protocol for chronic bloating.
A tendency to emit gases, frequent swelling, which is a symptom for a bad intestinal metabolism.
Liver overload, insufficient draining, excess of fine digest fibres = rumen instability (metabolic type no 9).
INTOXSOL+DRAINSOL in the morning and FLAMESOL in the evening, 3 days, and then once a week until the problem has been corrected.
Fertility problems, foot problems, repeated mastitis, productivity drop, ups and downs in appetite.
Day1 INTOXSOL
Day 2-3-4 DRAINSOL
Followed by
Day 1 INTOXSOL
Day 2 DRAINSOL
Day 3 EDEMASOL (alternate day 3 with MINSOL)
Once a week until no more toxins in the food
→nervous form: excessive nervousness, abnormal excitement, it wants to climb, shakes it’s head, can undergo convulsions and even coma;
→digestive form: loss of appetite, or dietary perversions, loss of production, raised abdomen, absence of ruminal noise or movements, dehydrated stools, grinding of teeth, acidic odour of the breath and even the milk (sour apple or warm beer).
Often a deficiency in carbohydrates or slow sugars (metabolic Type no 4) accentuated by any form of ruminal instability (metabolic Type no 9) or liver overload (metabolic Type no 5). Usually, a close up ration too high in protein, or a ration too aggressive post calving. Over weight cows or cows dry too long are susceptible to this situation.
DRAINSOL + INTOXSOL, 2 to 3 times a day, feed only dry hay until the cows intake returns to normal, usually 1 to 3 or 4 days. Re-introduce concentrate and silages slowly on 15 or 21 days.
Preventive draining 3 weeks before calving. As soon as there is the slightest drop in feed intake DRAINSOL+INTOXSOL once a day for a few days, a lot of hay and lower proteins.
There are essentially three stages or three types of mastitis:
→ a) acute,
→ b) sub-acute
→ c) sub-clinical.
Usually appears very suddenly and rapidely, with redness, heat, pain, hardness or swelling, sometimes fever. The general state of well-being is affected with loss of appetite and, of course, of production. The animal is often agitated. At this stage there is no infection yet, thus no lumps in the milk. In order to avoid a worsening of the problem, the correct protocol should be administered at this stage. There are three situations that determine which of the protocols to follow:
→ a) Trauma following a change of habit, stray voltage, transport, a fall, blow or nervous shock.
Give STRESSOL+FLAMESOL, 2 or 3 milkings, then EDEMASOL only, morning and evening, 3 days or until swelling disappears.
End protocol by giving MINSOL 3 milkings in a row. If lumps appears, go on the to 8.2 infectious mastitis.
→ b) Before calving: A predisposition to the repetitive acute, congestive mastitis often is a result of an excess of rapidly digested carbohydrates (metabolic type 1 : Treat as an ordinary mastitis. Correct the ration.
SEPTISOL+FLAMESOL in the morning,
INTOXSOL+EDEMASOL in the evening, until lumps disappears.
EDEMASOL morning and evening for 2 or 3 days.
End protocol with DRAINSOL 3 milkings in a row.
→ c) With a difficult calving due to distocia, there is a predisposition to acute inflammatory mastitis. This is often aggravated by an excess of rapidely digestible energy (metabolic type 1 = acidosis)***.
Correct the ration.
STRESSOL+FLAMESOL morning and
STRESSOL+EDEMASOL evening as long as there are no lumps.
If there are lumps, SEPTISOL+FLAMESOL morning and evening until lumps disappear.
End Protocol with DRAINSOL 3 milkings in a row.
***Treat the chronic causes of b) and c) with
FLAMESOL in the morning and DRAINSOL in the evening, for 5 days, then 1 shot, of each product, once per week, until the cause is corrected.
→ a) Acute mastitis
Pus discharge with lumps and general depression (temperature may be low).
often related to the environment, this infection was the most frequent and the easiest to treat 10 years ago. A massive use of antibiotics has all but wiped it out, helping the spread of staphylococcus aureus, more resistant to antibiotics. With this kind of infection, the somatic cell count can climb abruptly to several million, only to come down rapidly one or two months later, we call it the ‘’steeple’’ cell count .
Beside the environmental factors, a cow that is overloaded with an excess of protein (soluble nitrogen, metabolic type no 5), which stresses the major organs, becomes more fragile to infections.
The main product for acute infectious mastitis is SEPTISOL. If there is inflammation it is combined with FLAMESOL:
FLAMESOL+ SEPTISOL morning and
INTOXSOL+ EDEMASOL evening,
for 2 or 3 days, then as soon as there is improvement, follow with
EDEMASOL morning and evening for 3 days or until symptoms disappear.
End the treatment with DRAINSOL, 3 milking in a row.
(Evolving to generalized infection or septicaemia)
Observation: Milk becomes yellowish, then watery, like beer; there may be blood in the milk, body temperature is low:
If you do, this will be cleared really quickly!
Other than bacterial contamination due to the environment (wood shavings), through a teat with an open wound, or stuck open (with flowing milk) vulnerability to E. Coli is often a result of a weakness of the immune system before and after calving (somatic cell count under 10.000 in the first month of lactation) caused by an excess of antibiotics at dry off. Also, ruminal instability prevents normal digestion of E.Coli by the cow and makes it aggressive.
Emergency Protocol:
SEPTISOL+INTOXSOL, EVERY HOUR FOR AT LEAST 5 TO 10 hours, and milk out the infected quarter every hour as well, then, when the milk becomes white again, 3 to 4 times a day for 2 or 3 days; carry on with
SEPTISOL+ EDEMASOL+DRAINSOL morning and
STAPHSOL+ EDEMASOL evening for 3 to 5 days.
End with 3 milking of MINSOL.
(mastitis with over infected abscess)
It often appears near forests, in humid season, caused by flies. It particularly affects animals that are not in lactation. It always starts in a very acute, severe way, affecting many quarters. As with E. Coli, milk is watery and yellowish, chronic abscesses are formed in the udder. The abscesses are purulent, producing a liquid thick as cheese and foul smelling. Healing is very slow, and abscesses are repetitive.
SEPTISOL+INTOXSOL morning and evening for 3 days, then
SEPTISOL + EDEMASOL in the morning and
STAPHSOL+EDEMASOL in the evening for 3 days.
End with MINSOL 3 milkings in a row.
Symptoms are generally strange, yogurt-like mastitis, spaghetti; yellow lumps in white milk, mud-like appearance, many descriptions can be given. We can be positive it is really fungus mastitis by veterinary analysis of the milk, or after you’ve tried SEPTISOL, then STAPHSOL, with little or no success.
There may be swelling but not always, there may be fever but not always, the cow may be depressed but not always.
cows that are slightly acidic due to an excess of digestible energy in the ration are more susceptible to funguses that love an acid environment to grow in. Penicillin, which was developed from fungus can also help set up a cow for this kind of mastitis.
STAPHSOL+FLAMESOL in the morning,
MYCOSOL+ EDEMASOL in the evening, for 2-3 days, followed by
MYCOSOL+EDEMASOL morning and evening for 2 days, followed by
DRAINSOL 3 milking in a row, end with
MINSOL morning + evening for 3 days
about every 3 weeks, no more acute stage, recurring lumps and sometimes swelling, loss of production, less general symptoms.
incomplete treatment of an acute mastitis. Antibiotics may not have completely removed all bacteria from a previous mastitis. May also be a non-acute mastitis caused by demineralization, especially with big producers.
Despite light symptoms, this type of mastitis, left untreated, has a tendency to recur and prepares the way for sub-clinical mastitis (without symptoms) with staphylococcus and high somatic cells count.
SEPTISOL+ EDEMASOL (to drain infection and avoid a relapse) morning and evening for 3 days, then
STAPHSOL in the morning (to prevent a mastitis with staphylococcus and high somatic cells count) and
EDEMASOL in the evening for 3 days or until lumps and swelling have disappeared.
DRAINSOL for 3 milking
Complete with
MINSOL morning and EDEMASOL evening for 3 days to re-mineralize and avoid a chronic lesion to the udder
→a)
No or few general or local symptoms but a high somatic cells count, most of the times caused by staphylococcus. It rises slowly but steadily.
Less frequent 15 years ago, when acute mastitis with streptococcus were easily treated with antibiotics, sub-clinical mastitis with staphylococcus have become a scourge for breeders and the most important nuisance affecting the profitability of dairy farms.
The two most important causes of high somatic cells counts are:
1- the proliferation of a resistant staphylococcus following an excessive use of antibiotics;
2- a weakened immune system in cows overwhelmed by conditions at the limit of their physiology (excess of nitrogen, sugars, toxic overload, insufficient draining, demineralization, over-production, medication, etc.). This puts them in a state of permanent immune struggle and causes a rise in somatic cells. After the cause has been corrected, it could take a long period of time before the counts get back down to the normal healthy level, patience is required! We stimulate the immune system, it tends to overreact before calming down.
The Protocols must be individualized for each subject. If needed, call our specialist, so that we can give you the best way to treat each case efficiently.
Here are few examples of the types of Protocols we recommend. :
For the 1st month:
STAPHSOL+SEPTISOL morning
STAPHSOL+MYCOSOL evening for 3 days, followed by
DRAINSOL 3 milkings, then
STAPHSOL+ EDEMASOL morning
MINSOL + EDEMASOL evening for 5 days
2nd + 3rd months:
STAPHSOL+EDEMASOL morning
SEPTISOL + MINSOL evening for 3 days.
2 days each month until the end of milking
Aftereffects of repeated mastitis affecting the udder (hard lumps, nodules, lesions, hardening, damaged teats, lost quarter, drop of production), nodular thelitis, repeated mastitis.
The animal never completely recovered from acute or sub-acute mastitis; demineralization.
EDEMASOL+MINSOL morning+evening, 5 days the 1st month, 5 days the following months until the udder looks better.
For all cows:
10 days before you stop milking completely
STAPHSOL+SEPTISOL morning
MYCOSOL+EDEMASOL evening
For 5 days
FLAMESOL+EDEMASOL morning
STAPHSOL+MINSOL evening
For 5 days
If not dry, DRYSOL once a day for 3 days.
GENERAL WARNING: Whatever the Protocol plan is, never give DRYSOL during the last 3 weeks before calving.
Also, we strongly recommend not giving the antibiotic treated milk to the calves and/or from a staphylococcus cow. We suspect this could transfer the antibiotic resistance to the heifers, which would mean that they are already calving with staphylococcus problems.
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.
Round, hairless patches that appear on the body and rarely on the limbs. It is very contagious condition, for humans as well, hence the necessity to isolate the affected animals and to take precautions to prevent the spread of the disease.
Calves and heifers fall victim to the virus when weakened. It may appear after vaccination or in periods of weight gain. Young stocks are especially vulnerable in periods of over feeding, causing excess nutrients to be expelled from the body, or in periods of high humidity.
Protocol:
Day 1-2-3 VIRALSOL
Day 4-5-6 SKINSOL
Day 7-8-9 DRAINSOL
Repeat after 3 weeks
Infestation by mites digging nests near the ears or tail, causing itching.
Affects animals with a weakened immune system, or an excess of quickly digesting energy (metabolic Type no.1) or excess of nitrogen which overloads the liver and the elimination organs (metabolic Type no.5).
SKINSOL in the morning and DRAINSOL in the evening for 5 to 10 days, until recovery.
Contagious skin illness caused by mites digging tunnels in the skin to lay their eggs. Small blood vessels erupt causing severe itchiness.
Cause: Same as mites.
Protocol: Same as mites.
The four most common types of warts are squat, pendulated, flat and tags. They appear as raised hairless lesions (varying in size from a pea to a tennis ball). It is common for large warts to bleed especially by rubbing which can, in some instances, lead to bacterial infection that may require treatment. In chronic infections some animals may lose condition, be stunted and very rarely death may occur.
Common consequence of vaccination, which develops sycosis or toxin retention through construction; weakened immune system (often after vaccines or antibiotics).
Protocol:
SKINSOL+STAPHSOL morning
VIRALSOL evening
For 5 to 10 days
DRAINSOL once a day for 3 days
Repeat after 2 weeks
Foot Rot is a smelly infection of the foot, which generally occurs high between the claw and toes. It results mainly from an infection caused by the bacterium fusiformis necrophorus. This organism may build up in barnyards, exercise lots, mud holes, and pastures. Cattle with foot rot usually show lameness on one leg only. The foot swells above the coronet and the toes spread cracks and fissures develop in the interdigital spuces. There is a characteristic foul smelling discharge at these fissures. If left untreated, the infection can progress into the joint space or tendon sheath producing permanent damage.
In the past 10 years, digital dermatitis has developed as a serious problem in several dairy regions in North America. There are several scientific and common names to characterize the disease. They are heel warts, hairy foot warts, strawberry foot disease, raspberry heel, digital papillomatosis, and Mortellaro disease. Affected animals have pronounced lameness and spend excessive time lying down. First-calf heifers are often affected, and to a greater degree in the hind feet. There is little to no digital swelling with this disease.
The animals most vulnerable to this bacterial contamination are those in a state of acidosis (excess of fast sugars, metabolic Type no.1), those in a state of ruminal instability (metabolic Type no. 9) with an excess of fine fibre or a deficiency in long structural fibre (Type no. 2). These animals develop inflammation much more rapidly than the well-balanced cows and this makes them vulnerable to secondary infections.
→First stage: inflammatory
SEPTISOL+FLAMESOL in the morning, INTOXSOL in the evening for 3 days, then DRAINSOL for 3 milkings. Repeat once a month until symptoms have disappeared. Correct the chronic inflammatory cause.
→Second stage: infectious
INTOXSOL+ SEPTISOL morning
STAPHSOL+ FLAMESOL evening for 4 days
SKINSOL+MYCOSOL evening of the fifth day
then DRAINSOL for 3 milkings. Wait 2 to 3 weeks and repeat until symptoms have disappeared. Correct the chronic inflammatory cause.
There may be cases where the illness is very resistant, especially in cows with damaged hooves. Ask for our advice…
Bladder inflammation with frequent, painful yet small emissions of dark, brownish and even bloody urine.
Cause: Same as regular acute metritis.
Protocol: DRAINSOL+ SEPTISOL twice a day until symptoms have disappeared.
Kidney inflammation, very painful to the touch; dramatic onset of high fever (39-40 degrees C) with loss of appetite, nervousness, sadness, shivering, strong stomach pains, painful defecation, plus the symptoms associated with cystitis.
Cause :Often a badly treated cystitis, same cause as chronic metritis.
Protocol: DRAINSOL+ INTOXSOL in the morning and SEPTISOL+ DRAINSOL in the evening until symptoms disappear.
14.1 Transport, change of location, manipulation
Any animal brought into the herd should immediately receive one shot of STRESSOL, and then SEPTISOL and VIRALSOL; to be sure it does not get sick.
Before any important manipulation, give STRESSOL before and after the event. These include: change of location, de-horning, hoof trimming, clipping, etc…
14.2 Physical or psychological shock:
After the shock: STRESSOL and FLAMESOL, once a day for 2 days.
Before or at any important change of feeding or any unexpected change: STRESSOL before and after the change, one or two days.
Before heifers calf: EDEMASOL and STRESSOL 7 to 10 days once a day, before calving date. This has a calming effect, and the calving is also much easier and stressless for the animal.
14.3 Nervousness, aggressiveness in cows
Nervousness, especially after a change: STRESSOL, once a week, as long as necessary.
Aggressiveness caused by an excess of fermentable carbohydrates (metabolic Type no 1): FLAMESOL+DRAINSOL, once a day for 3 days, then once a week for 3 weeks and feeding modification to clear the problem.
14.4 Articulations damaged by a fall:
STRESSOL +MINSOL, once a day, five days per month.
14.5 Difficult calving
STRESSOL morning and evening for 3 days to the cow and the calves
PROTOCOL:
To prevent side effects
STRESSOL morning
VIRALSOL evening, a day before vaccine.
EDEMASOL once a day, for 3 days after vaccine.
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