How to use drugs for toxemia of pregnancy in sheep

Pregnancy toxemia is a subacute metabolic disease of pregnant ewes, which usually occurs in the last two months of pregnancy and also occurs 2~3 days before delivery. The disease is characterized by fatty infiltration of liver, hypoglycemia and ketone bodies in blood and urine.

Symptoms: loss of appetite at the beginning of sheep disease, depression of spirit, standing alone, restless behavior, unstable gait; pale mucous membrane, dilated pupils as the disease progresses, decreased vision, yellow staining of visible mucous membrane, dull gaze; severe loss of appetite, difficulty standing up and lying on the ground, head tilting sideways, ear tremors, contracture of eye muscles, biting teeth, rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, death in coma.

Preventive supplementary feeding: strengthen supplementary feeding in the late pregnancy of ewes, supplement concentrate 0.6~0.8 kg and green hay 1~1.5 kg per day, and reduce silage feeding amount. At the same time, pay attention to feeding carrots, salt, bone meal, adjust the proportion of minerals such as calcium and phosphorus, prohibit feeding moldy, rotten, deteriorated and frozen feed, and require the feed to be small in volume and good in quality. Nursing: Let the ewes exercise properly during pregnancy, and the movements should be slow and steady to prevent crowding, pressing, biting, bumping, jumping, beating and kicking; it is forbidden to catch, disturb the sheep or whip the cold without reason. 1~2 days before delivery, pregnant sheep should be examined regularly for blood lipid and urine ketone, so as to find them early and deal with them in time.

Treatment of liver protection and blood ketone lowering: use excellent calcium oral liquid to make sick sheep take 1 bottle each time, twice a day. To promote metabolism: Biling injection was injected intramuscularly (0.1~0.2 ml per kg body weight of sheep) or diluted with normal saline (according to the ratio of 1:10) and then slowly instilled. Prevention and treatment of acidosis: give sick sheep intravenous injection of 5% sodium bicarbonate solution 100 ml once a day for 3 consecutive days. Prevention of secondary infection: Mixed Ganbizhi injection (0.1 ml per kilogram of sheep weight) combined with Kedubing injection (0.1 ml per kilogram of sheep weight) were injected intramuscularly for 2~3 days continuously. Strengthen nursing: feed hay, carrots, alfalfa, etc., feed multi-flavor Jianwei powder to enhance appetite; let sick sheep exercise properly to promote recovery. If there is a case of deterioration of the condition, endangering the life of the mother and child, in order to protect the mother and child safety, should carry out a comprehensive examination, such as the delivery date, artificial midwifery or implementation of caesarean section, such as not to the delivery date, should be timely termination of pregnancy.