Etiology and treatment of nutritional anemia in piglets

Piglets

Nutritional anemia in piglets is a nutritional metabolic disease caused by the lack or deficiency of some nutrients, which mostly occurs in one-month-old piglets, which has a great impact on the growth and development of piglets, and serious ones can cause death. According to the incidence found during the popularization of technology, the treatment measures of nutritional anemia in piglets were expounded in order to provide technical support for farmers.

I. supply of hemoglobin raw materials

1. Ferrous sulfate 2.5g, cupric sulfate 1g, cobalt chloride 2.5g, boiling water 1L, mixed and dissolved with a few drops of hydrochloric acid, filtered, and the filtrate was smeared on the nipple of sows or directly in the mouth of piglets. It can also be taken every day, according to the dosage of 0.25 ml per kilogram of body weight, for 14 days.

2. The mixed aqueous solution of 0.1% ferrous sulfate and 0.1% copper sulfate was used for piglets to drink.

3. Ferrous glucose (made from a mixture of ferrous hydroxide and glucose, containing 50 mg ferrous hydroxide per milliliter) solution 2-4 ml intramuscular injection, once a day for 7 days.

II. Other therapies

1. Ganjing injection (containing folic acid and vitamin B12) 0.5-1.0 ml, 5% glucose solution 1-3.0 ml, mixed intramuscularly, once a day for 7-10 days, or vitamin B12 injection 0.1-0.3 mg, intramuscular injection, once a day for 7-10 days You can also feed liver clots, liver powder and healthy pig stomach preparations, 1-3 grams at a time, 2-3 times a day.

2. Growth stimulant. The anticoagulant blood of strong horses, cattle and sheep is injected subcutaneously or intramuscularly, and the injection site is gently rubbed after injection to promote the absorption and dissipation of blood, which has a good effect on nutritional anemia and secondary malnutrition. The dosage per kilogram is 2-3 ml for suckling piglets, 1-2 ml for pigs over two months old, once every 3-5 days, 2-3 times as a course of treatment, or 2 ml every other day, 4-6 times as a course of treatment. If necessary, you can use a course of treatment every 5-6 days.

3. Chinese herbal medicine is treated with 30 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, with appropriate amount of brown sugar, divided into 4 times, mixed with feed, once a day, 60 grams each of Atractylodes macrocephala, tangerine peel, pine needle, Jianqu, malt and gentian grass, 30 grams of Phellodendron Phellodendri, 30 grams of Phellodendron Phellodendri, take 5-10 grams each time, three times a day.

In the course of treatment, in order to promote absorption and prevent iron poisoning, an appropriate amount of vitamin E can be given; in the treatment of iron supplement and vitamin B12, vitamin C and a small amount of dilute hydrochloric acid can be given at the same time, trivalent iron can be reduced to divalent iron, which is beneficial to absorption. Nutritional anemia in piglets is easy to be infected with pneumonia, which should be prevented.