Glucose! The magic medicine of pig farmers, can you really use it for pig farmers in rural areas?

Lao Zhang has been engaged in clinical veterinary work for more than 40 years. These years of work have given him his own unique opinions on the use of veterinary drugs. One of them is glucose powder. Lao Zhang said that glucose powder is definitely a veterinary artifact. It can be used whenever it is sick and can always have good effects. Lao Zhang helped me summarize the application of glucose powder in pig clinical practice:

>> Usage 1, detoxification

Most rural pig farmers know that when pigs are poisoned by mycotoxins, pig farmers can add large doses of glucose powder (20 kg per ton of feed) to feed or drinking water to alleviate the symptoms of mycotoxin poisoning.

>> Usage II: Supplemental Energy

1, for the treatment of piglet diarrhea

Piglet diarrhea due to digestive function damage can not obtain nutrients from the feed and gradually show weight, depression, pig people use glucose drinking glucose will be directly absorbed by the digestive tract, to achieve the purpose of rapid energy supplement, with oral rehydration salts can also play a role in preventing dehydration.

2. Auxiliary treatment of foot and mouth disease

After the occurrence of foot and mouth disease in pigs, the pigs cannot stand up and eat normally due to foot injuries. The sick pigs not only grow stunted, but also the wounds on the feet are not easy to recover. Rural pig farmers add glucose powder to drinking water with antibiotics such as amoxicillin to supplement nutrition and restore physical strength to sick pigs to promote wound recovery.

3. Cover up the bitterness of veterinary drugs

Many veterinary drugs such as tilmicosin and enrofloxacin have heavy bitter taste, although after coating treatment but still difficult to completely remove bitter taste, at this time rural pig farmers can use glucose powder mixed in feed or drinking water to cover bitter taste, in order to promote pig intake of medicated feed.

4. Use when appetite is exhausted

Pig herd fever, breathing difficulties when the pig herd food intake plummeted, appetite basically waste, can be added to the drinking water glucose to supplement energy.

It can be seen from the above several usages that the main function of glucose is to supplement energy. When the appetite of pigs is reduced or the digestive tract function is damaged, it can be used to quickly supplement energy and restore physical strength to pigs.