Causes of indigestion in piglets, treatment and prevention of dyspepsia in piglets

Summary: piglet dyspepsia is a common digestive tract disease of suckling piglets, which is caused by many reasons, such as malnutrition of sows, poor breeding conditions of piglets and less digestive juice secreted by piglets and so on. In the treatment of this disease, the corresponding treatment plan should be chosen according to the etiology. In addition, if we can strengthen the feeding and management of sows and piglets, it can effectively prevent piglet dyspepsia.

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1. Causes of indigestion in piglets

1. Malnutrition of pregnant sows and lack of nutrients in feed affect the normal growth and development of fetus, which are the congenital factors of piglet dyspepsia.

2. Poor feeding and management conditions of piglets, too cold, damp, sudden change of temperature, poor ventilation, untimely feeding, sudden feeding and other factors can cause piglet indigestion.

3. The barn is unhygienic. Piglets lick foreign bodies and feed moldy and deteriorated feed or unclean drinking water.

4. Toxic dyspepsia is mostly due to improper or untimely treatment of simple dyspepsia, resulting in intestinal fermentation, the formation of toxic substances are absorbed and the result of poisoning.

5. The amount of digestive juice secreted by piglets is less, especially there is no hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice of 20-day-old piglets, and the activity of digestive enzymes is low. in addition, the gastrointestinal mucosa is tender and distributes a large number of blood vessels, which is easy to cause digestive disorder when stimulated by adverse factors. resulting in the disease.

2. treatment of dyspepsia in piglets

As the causes of dyspepsia in piglets are various, food therapy, drug therapy and improving sanitary conditions should be taken to treat the disease.

1. First of all, improve the environment of lactating sows and thicken dry and clean mattresses. In order to alleviate the irritation of gastrointestinal tract, piglets can be prohibited from breastfeeding for 8-10 hours. During this period, only normal saline solution (2 grams of sodium chloride, 0.3 ml of 33% hydrochloric acid, 300 ml of cold boiled water, 3 times a day).

2. In order to exclude gastrointestinal contents, calomel (0.01g / kg body weight) can be taken internally for piglets with less severe diarrhea.

3, in order to promote digestion, you can take artificial gastric juice (10 grams of pepsin, 5 milliliters of dilute hydrochloric acid, 1000 milliliters of water) 10-30 milliliters.

4. In order to prevent intestinal infection, especially for piglets with toxic indigestion, antibiotics (streptomycin, kanamycin, oxytetracycline, dysentery, sulfonamides) can be used.

5. For persistent diarrhea, you can take antidiarrheal agents (such as alum, tannic acid protein, bismuth subnitrite, silicon carbon silver, etc.).

6. In order to prevent dehydration, 10% glucose solution or 0.9% sodium chloride solution can be injected intravenously or intraperitoneally.

Preventive measures for indigestion in piglets

1. To prevent the occurrence of this disease, we should first strengthen the feeding and management of pregnant sows and newborn piglets and feed them with feed rich in protein and vitamins. Newborn piglets should strengthen nursing and eat breast milk as soon as possible.

2. The pig house should be clean, warm and ventilated.

3. Other pigs should do regular deworming and stomach health.