How to prevent and cure tetanus in cattle due to difficulty in opening mouth, limb stiffness and ruminating

Bovine tetanus is a muscle ankylosis caused by tetanus bacilli, commonly known as mouth-locking wind. It is characterized by persistent spasm of skeletal muscle and increased excitability of nerve reflex.

Cattle

Its main symptoms: low spirits, but no loss of appetite, difficulty in mouth opening; salivation, difficulty in chewing and swallowing, closed teeth, even unable to chew; sometimes prolapse of the lower jaw, tongue sticking out of the mouth; pupil dilation of the eyes; hearing sound, light or touch can aggravate spasms; often have symptoms such as constipation, flatulence, anuria; difficulty in turning and retreating. The limbs are stiff and the horns are dilated in the shape of a Trojan horse; severe ruminating and heating stops.

Its prevention and control measures:

1. Strengthen nursing, move the sick cattle to a dark, well-ventilated, dry and clean shed, keep the environment quiet, avoid sound stimulation, and feed easily digestible feed.

2. When dealing with the wound, it should be aseptic, enlarge the wound, discharge pus, foreign body and necrotic tissue, and wash and disinfect it with 3% hydrogen peroxide and 2% potassium permanganate. At the same time, the wound was sprinkled with penicillin, anti-inflammatory powder and other drugs.

3. According to the different stages of the development of the disease, drug treatment can take the methods of neutralizing toxin, sedation and spasmolysis, and so on.

①, 20-300000 units of tetanus antitoxin, 2% urotropine, 100 ml, 200 ml, 25% magnesium sulfate, 50-100 ml, 50-100 ml, 2000 ml, 5% glucose, once intravenously, and then 3 ml, once every 5 days.

②, if it is difficult to open, 10 ml3% procaine or 1 Mel 2 m0.1% epinephrine can be mixed into bovine masseter muscle. When you are unable to open your mouth, you should replenish sugar and fluid twice a day.