Prevention and treatment of enterotoxemia in sheep with spasms and clenching teeth

Enterotoxemia in sheep is an acute toxemia caused by Clostridium welchii. Clostridium welchii multiplies in large numbers in the intestinal tract of sheep, and produces toxin and causes diseases, which is easy to occur in late spring, early summer and autumn. Sheep enterotoxemia has high incidence and quick death, so attention should be paid to the prevention and treatment of sheep enterotoxemia. The specific symptoms and prevention techniques are as follows:

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1. Etiological symptoms:

Enterotoxemia in sheep is an acute infectious disease caused by a large number of toxins produced by Clostridium welchii in the intestinal tract of sheep. It often occurs in young sheep with good fat and under 2 years old, showing sporadic, too much rain, abrupt climate change, overeating tender grass and concentrate, lack of exercise and so on. The disease is often acute, death, and kidney malacia after death. Clinical symptoms: dumbness, lying, running and gnashing teeth, falling to the ground on one side, convulsions of limbs, rolling left and right, backward bending of head and neck, shortness of breath, foaming of mouth and nose, moaning after illness, and died within 2 hours.

Second, prevention and control technology:

1. Vaccination should be the main way to prevent sudden death due to the disease. Five milliliters of sheep quadruple vaccine are injected into sheep skin or muscle twice a year in spring and autumn.

2. Exercise properly and don't give too much green material and concentrate.

3. Sheep with a course of disease of more than 2 hours can take 10 ~ 20 grams of sulfonamidine or inject immune serum.

4. Intramuscular injection of chloramphenicol 0.5-0.7 g, 3 times a day.

5. 1.6 million units of penicillin and 500mg of streptomycin were injected intramuscularly, 4 times a day.