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Acute mastitis


I have a cow that's down with acute mastitis, she has received cal-borg, trivetrin, 17900 in the quarter, and I'm wondering what the proper treatment should be.

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 She has now recieved anafin, and needs to be lifted to strip the quarter out. Just thought you'd like to know.
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what about 5ml of pre def (not sure of its real name) and mixed with 50ml of saline water and a bottle of glucose. we used that for real sick cows when i worked in canada seemed to do the trick.
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I actually have a cow with a similar situation. i have never had a cow go down with any type of mastitis but a couple days ago I had a older cow get really weak in the rear half and not be able to stand up. she was a dry cow and still a couple month from calving. We took a blood sample and gave her a bunch of bottles. she looks alert and eats and drinks fine she just acts paralyzed in both rear legs. I pick her up with slings like Mayjay to strip her out in the bad quarter. But when I lift her up she puts weight on her front legs but keeps trying to pull her rear legs under herself instead of setting them straight down. has the toxicity of the mastitis affected her control of her back half? Is there any hope she will regain the ability to stand on her own? I don't mind messing around with a down cow especially one that eats,drinks, chews her cud, and whose manure looks fine. But i don't want to keep dumping medicine in her if she her chances are slim. Is the mastitis holding her back or could it be something else keeping her down.
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Wouldn't be a mineral deficiency would it buze?

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Would you be able to tell that from a blood sample? We drew blood and vet checked it out and said everything looked good. I have had cows that acted similar. One was real low on phosphorus and the other had tumors on her vertabrae. I am getting a second opinion from a different vet tomorrow. Crossing my fingers its something to due with minerals. She did have a fever of 103F.
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There is no way the nerve was pinched somehow? Showing all the signs: everything is working apart from the rear legs. High Temp is strange.
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this is sounding like something we call "black mastitis".Basically the bug gets into the bloodstream causing the cow to go down and giving her a high tempreture.I havnt seen a case since the 80s.Cows will die from it - if you are lucky you will only lose the quarter......
the merk vet manuel tells me that with coliform mastitis high temp,anorexia,depression,dehydraon,rapid weight loss,diarrrha.Im thinking you all need the vet asap .probably too late for a milk culture as the initial germ may have mutated from treatment given.
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Well I am not worried much about the quarter. I just want her to stand up so she can walk on a beef truck. She is perky and drinks water. manure is solid, and she crawls around in a little circle eating grass eating grass. She is not anorexic as she is about 1600lbs. She acts like a pinched nerve or injury but she also has had bad mastitis. She did show a little more sign of attempting to stand this afternoon. But after trying to bear her full weight on her rear legs (for about 5 seconds) she quickly pulled her legs rear legs up and tried to lay down. So I set her down and gave her some more hay which he happily munched away at. I have not given up hope yet but I am leary she may be getting used to this treatment of me picking her up to strip her out and then lay her back down and give her food and drink. Believe me if I could stay in bed only to have my wife roll me over to change teh sheets and feed me I might come down with some mystery paralysis of my own....We'll see what the vet has to say tomorrow.
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