Sheep Medicine Q&A 07 - Revision history

Lwyasm1 at 19:10, 21 July 2011

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'''Halfway through lambing time a sheep client complains of high morbidity and mortality in 24–36-hr-old lambs showing excess salivation with a wet lower jaw, cold mouth and poor suck reflex, and retained meconium. There is progressive abdominal distension with fluid and gas. The rectal temperature is subnormal. There is dehydration, poor peripheral perfusion with cold extremities, and a rapid weak pulse during the agonal stages.'''

 

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|q1=What conditions would you consider?
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The most likely conditions to consider include:
*endotoxaemia (watery mouth disease)
*septicaemia
*''Escherichia coli'' enteritis (entero toxigenic strains)
*starvation/mismothering/exposure (SME complex)
*cryptosporidiosis.
Clinical chemistry reveals low plasma glucose concentration and leucopenia, but elevated lactate and BUN concentrations consistent with endotoxaemia.
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|q2=What treatments would you recommend?
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Despite abomasal distension, oral rehydration solution administration (50mL/kg four times daily) by stomach tube is essential. 
Many lambs showing disease are bacteraemic therefore a broad-spectrum antibiotic (amoxicillin, oxytetracycline) should be injected intramuscularly. 
Flunixin meglumine should be given intravenously to counter the endotoxaemia.
|l2=
|q3=What control measures would you instigate?
|a3=
Control measures include improving hygiene standards in the lambing shed and ensuring passive antibody transfer.
*Paraformaldehyde powder should be applied daily to the straw bedding.
*Individual pens should have a concrete base and must be cleaned out completely, disinfected, and allowed to dry between ewes.
*The most effective means of preventing watery mouth disease is giving an oral antibiotic preparation (an aminoglycoside such as spectinomycin) within 15 minutes of birth.
*In the early stages of watery mouth disease, soapy water enemas and mild laxatives/purgatives are often effective. Metaclopramide is too expensive.
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 *cryptosporidiosis.
 Clinical chemistry reveals low plasma glucose concentration and leucopenia, but elevated lactate and BUN concentrations consistent with endotoxaemia.
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 Many lambs showing disease are bacteraemic therefore a broad-spectrum antibiotic (amoxicillin, oxytetracycline) should be injected intramuscularly. <br><br>
 Flunixin meglumine should be given intravenously to counter the endotoxaemia.
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 *The most effective means of preventing watery mouth disease is giving an oral antibiotic preparation (an aminoglycoside such as spectinomycin) within 15 minutes of birth.
 *In the early stages of watery mouth disease, soapy water enemas and mild laxatives/purgatives are often effective. Metaclopramide is too expensive.
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Sheep Medicine Q&A 07 - Revision history

Lwyasm1 at 19:10, 21 July 2011

Ctrace at 14:25, 23 May 2011

Ctrace: Created page with "{{Template:Manson}} 500px '''Halfway through lambing time a sheep client complains of high morbidity and mortality in 24–36-hr-o..."

Ctrace: Created page with "{{Template:Manson}} 500px
'''Halfway through lambing time a sheep client complains of high morbidity and mortality in 24–36-hr-o..."