Treatment of rotten claw disease

Red claw disease is actually a vitamin C deficiency in newborn raccoons.

Its performance: newborn raccoon dog limbs, toe pad red, between the toes broken, bleeding, erosion, showing purplish red; sucking ability is weak, constantly issued a weak squeak, crawling in the nest; some joints become thicker, tail edema and redness, rotting off the tip of the tail. The main harm was raccoon dogs at the age of 10 days, and most of them were nests. If not treated in time, they would die within 5 days.

Treatment:

Usually should give full-price nutritious feed, especially pregnant mother raccoon dog, in addition to adding green fresh vegetables in the diet, vitamin C25 mg should be added every day. For sick raccoon dogs, vitamin C solution can be given twice a day, about 10 drops each time. At the same time, the mother raccoon dog should be injected with vitamin C injection and VC. Once a day, 1 to 2 milliliters each time. Amoxicillin injection. Two milliliters per day. Or penicillin. 800,000 units. One at a time. Sufficient cod liver oil in the diet of female raccoon dogs will help to shorten the course of disease and promote the curative effect.

Generally speaking, adults seldom suffer from red claw disease, and this female raccoon dog may be caused by a red and swollen skin infection or skin fungal infection caused by mites. Due to the constraints of pregnancy, there is no effective treatment, you can apply iodine tincture or iodine glycerin, oral amoxicillin anti-inflammation, maintain until postpartum observation and treatment.

In addition, the weather is dry in spring, and the claws are often cracked due to lack of water and nutritional imbalance, so vitamins An and E and trace element zinc can be properly added to the feed to prevent. Oil can be applied to the parts that have been cracked to relieve the symptoms.