Nihon Chikusan Gakkaiho
Online ISSN : 1880-8255
Print ISSN : 1346-907X
ISSN-L : 1880-8255
The Treatment of Spontaneous Calf Diarrhoea via Oral Administration of Electrolyte Solution Containing Glucose and Glycine
Tsutomu FUJIHARAYukishige SASAYutaka ISSHIKI
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1987 Volume 58 Issue 2 Pages 162-169

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Abstract
In the present experiment, spontaneously occurring acute calf diarrhoea on three farms where 100-400 cattle were always kept for fattening was treated with an oral administration of glucose-glycine-electrolyte solution (GGES). The conditions of recovery from diarrhoea in the calves are discussed and compared with those of other treatments. As a whole, most diarrhoeic calves (94%), under various clinical conditions, recovered with the oral GGES administration, and it appeared that the higher the dehydration via diarrhoea, the more frequent the dose and the amount of GGES, and the longer the days required for recovery. In was also suggested that the recovery from illness was smoother and faster than that in treatment with antibiotics. The results virtually confirmed that an oral administration of GGES provided by us has a markedly positive effect on the treatment of spontaneous acute diarrhoea in neonatal calves.
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