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Prevention and treatment of dry stool in pigs

Release time:

Aug 15,2018


Swine stool dry knot (also known as intestinal constipation, intestinal obstruction, Chinese medicine called knot disease), mostly due to improper feeding and management or other diseases secondary to cause, to refuse to eat, thirst, stool dry hard, defecation difficult as the main characteristics of internal diseases. Pigs of all ages can occur, especially just weaned piglets, rural areas due to the lack of scientific feeding and management of large pigs and pregnant sows also often occur this disease.

1 Etiology

1.1 Pigs feed a large number of dry, hard, containing more debris, not easy to digest the roughage. Such as peanut shell, bean straw, sweet potato seedlings and other feed caused.

1.2 Pigs are fed with high concentrate feed, insufficient drinking water, lack of exercise or sudden change of feed, change of feeding mode, climate mutation, and strong stress.

1.3 Other secondary diseases: such as swine fever, swine erysipelas, parasitic diseases, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, etc.

1.4 Drug poisoning, surgery is not completely left sequelae can also cause this disease.

The above various pathogenic factors make the intestinal motor secretion function disorder, the peristalsis is weakened, the feed digestion is not complete, the residence time in the intestinal tube is too long or the gastrointestinal sympathetic nerve excitability is enhanced, the parasympathetic nerve excitation is weakened, and the pH and water content in the large intestine are damaged, causing the intestinal contents to be dry and constipation.

 2 clinical symptoms

Sick pigs show loss of appetite or waste, less water, conjunctival flushing, intestinal sound weakened or disappeared. Palpation of the abdominal cavity, sometimes sensitive, thin-skinned sick pigs can often feel the presence of a curved cylindrical intestine in the abdominal cavity. Breathing a little faster, up and down restless. At the beginning, a small amount of dry manure is discharged, which is mostly covered or inlaid with thick gray-white mucus. Late stop defecation, often do defecation posture. Edema of the rectal mucosa, protrusion of the anus, with varying degrees of abdominal pain. The disease can occur in pigs of various ages, and it is very easy to cause constipation when weaned piglets and sows in late pregnancy are fed with roughage.

 3 Preventive measures

Strengthen feeding management, reasonable feed, feed more juicy feed. Provide clean drinking water, feed regularly and quantitatively, and increase exercise appropriately. Pay attention to environmental hygiene, regular disinfection, prevention of infectious and parasitic diseases, rational use of drugs to prevent drug poisoning. Often check the herd, so that early detection, early treatment, reduce the secondary cause of intestinal constipation.

 4 treatment method

 4.1 Feed caused by intestinal constipation, should immediately stop feeding, early to a small amount of green juicy feed, provide a lot of clear water.

 4.2 Symptomatic treatment: available45C around the soapy water a large number of deep enema, so that the dry ball dung softening. Pay attention to pinch the anus, do not let soapy water flow out immediately. Oral laxatives (porcine vegetable oil dosage50~100mlor with magnesium sulfate50~10gor rhubarb powder50~100g). Severe abdominal pain can be intramuscularly injected with analgin3~10ml, subcutaneous injection of atropine hydrochloride2~4ml. Weak and seriously ill animals need to strengthen the heart rehydration, correct dehydration loss of salt, adjust the acid-base balance, alleviate self-poisoning, and maintain cardiac function.

 4.3 folk prescription: bought at the market1kg of fresh fish, fried, together with a small amount of oil, add water and stew1000mlFeed the pigs once a day.

 4.4 Prevent secondary infection, intramuscular injection of antibiotic drugs, symptoms can be injected after multivitaminBInjection.

 4.5 Traditional Chinese medicine: mirabilite, licorice, rhubarb16g, ground into fine powder with honey50gor egg white3A and medicine to reconcile, points2Second feeding service.


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