Prevention and treatment of Pesticide poisoning in cattle

At present, cattle are an important labor force in farming and farming in the vast rural areas. if poisoning occurs when accidentally eating feed contaminated by pesticides, farmers should master some common sense of treatment and take timely treatment measures in order to ensure the life and safety of cattle, otherwise, once poisoning and death will cause significant economic losses, let's take a look at the prevention and control methods of bovine pesticide poisoning.

Etiology of pesticide poisoning in cattle

Cattle pesticide poisoning is mainly caused by accidentally eating grass or crops sprayed with organophosphorus pesticides, drinking water contaminated by organophosphorus pesticides, and seeds mixed with organophosphorus pesticides. Abuse of highly toxic organophosphorus pesticides in the treatment of bovine skin diseases and parasites in vivo and in vitro is too high, the coating area is too large, especially the oil formulation is easy to be absorbed by the skin and mucosa. If the skin is damaged or inflamed, it is more easily absorbed and poisoned.

Symptoms of pesticide poisoning in cattle

Diseased cattle show mental depression or mania, and then fall asleep, regurgitate, loss of appetite or stop. The pupils are narrowed, the muscles of the whole body are constricted, it is difficult to breathe, and the exhaled gas has the special smell of medicine. Sweating in front of the chest, behind the elbow, around the scrotum and perineum, conjunctival congestion, tears, foaming at the mouth, swelling of the gums and tongue. Abdominal pain, enhanced intestinal sound, severe diarrhea, bloody stool, unstable gait, dry oral mucosa and nasal endoscope and even ulcers, and finally paralysis of the extremities, falling to the ground. If he is not rescued in time, he may die of convulsion and coma within hours. In severe cases, the heartbeat is rapid and the pulse is weak, often accompanied by pulmonary edema, and some suffocate to death.

Prevention of Pesticide poisoning in cattle

Improve the system of safekeeping and use of pesticides. Seeds treated with pesticides and prepared solutions shall not be placed indiscriminately. Keep the place where pesticides are prepared and sprayed. Spraying pesticides is best carried out in the morning and evening when there is no wind. In places where pesticides have been sprayed, grazing or mowing is prohibited for 1 month. Do not abuse pesticides to kill surface parasites of livestock. The dosage of trichlorfon should be appropriate.

Treatment of pesticide poisoning in cattle

1, the need for immediate detoxification, commonly used special antidotes such as detoxification, phosphorus chloride detoxification. Its dosage is 15 mg / kg body weight, 2.5% solution mixed with normal saline and injected slowly intravenously. After that, the dose was halved once every 2-3 hours. According to the relief of symptoms, the injection can be repeated within 48 hours. Or use double phosphorus, double compound phosphorus, its dosage is 715 milligrams per kilogram body weight, usage is the same as phosphorus. Atropine sulfate can also be used for subcutaneous or intramuscular injection at a dosage of 0.25 mg per kilogram of body weight. Patients with severe poisoning can be injected slowly with 1 stroke 3 doses mixed with sugar saline, and 2 stroke 3 doses can be used for subcutaneous or intramuscular injection. If the symptoms do not improve after 1 hour, you can reduce the amount of repeated injection.

2. Skin poisoning in order to remove unabsorbed poisons, wash the skin with 5% lime water, 0.5% sodium hydroxide or soapy water, through the digestive tract poisoning, gastric lavage with 2% sodium bicarbonate solution or salt water, and infuse activated carbon. However, it must be noted that trichlorfon poisoning, can not use alkaline water to wash the stomach or wash the skin, because trichlorfon in alkaline environment can transform the more toxic dichlorvos.