Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-06-21
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TREATMENT For MILK FEVER.

ThEA ! MEM TWIN mtLN FEVER.
NIX fever is common to all an.ma,s
giving milk, but more common and
more dangerous with cows. Many val.
liable cows are lost every year from
the disease, and in some cases with
no treatment. A pronounced case Of
the disease runs its course within a
very short time, and within few
hours the animal is dead. The cause
is not positively known. It rarely oe.
ours with a cow before her third calf
but after she has once suffered from
milk fever, she becomes more suscept
ible to the disease than before The
disease never occurs before the secre-
ton of milk begins. either before or
after calving.
The symptoms of milk fever are:
Dizziness of the senses, lying down.
closing of the eyes. cessation of feed
ing and rumination and general pros
tration. In the first stages Of the dis
ease the temperature is high. but Il
soon falls below normal. The pulse
coon becomes weak and the feet and
ears Geld.
The old treat71enee for milk fever
was the administering ~ medicines,
and under this treatment about one
cow out of every two affected with the
disease died No medicine seems to
give any positive relief, and of those
that recover. treated in the old way,
no doubt come through of their own
strength rather than from any good
results from the medicine.
The new and more efficient treat
ment for milk fever Is the forcing of
oxygen or air into the udder, working
the gas up into the cells of the udder
and body by hand massage. special
apparatus or pump is made and sold
for this purpose. and such can be Sc
cured from veterinary instrument
houses. The most essential part of the
instrument however, is the tent tube,
through which air is forced into the
udder. For those keeping many cows,
1t is we'll to own a complete instru-
ment. yet the teat tube is all that Is
necessary If bicycle pump can be Sc
cured.
A neighbor this spring had a fresh
COW go down with milk fever. The
foreman of a nearby large dairy was
called to aid His instrument had
been borrowed few days before, and
all he brought with him was com.
t,1ho
he took the quill end of a chicken
wing feather, orening the center and
making the end to be inserted into
the teat as round and smooth as pos
sible. This hollow quill was fastened
into the end of the rubber tube of the
pump. disinfected and inserted in the
teat of the sick COW. The pump was
set to work and one-quarter of the I'D
der inflated. After imitation. this
quarter of the udder was kneaded and
worked to force the air into the up
per cells of the udder.
As soon as one teat and one-quarter
of the udder were treated, the other
quarters of the udder in turn were
treated. In each case enough air was
pumred through the teat into the I'D
der to distend 1t to more than double
its normal size. when massaging was
begun and continued for from ten to
twenty minutes necessarily. The
dairyman explained that the message
treatment after imitation with air was
of great Importance in forcing the air
further into the body of the COW.
When the teat tube was withdrawn
after imitation only small quantity
Of air escared, most of IT remaining
in the quarter OF the udder inflated.
Nothing was tied around the bottom
of the teat. and scarcely no air es-
caned during the massage treatment.
This cow had very severe attack
Of milk fever. and six to eight hours
passed before treatment was begun,
yet within two hours after the treat
ment. the COW showed material signs
Of Improvement and within four hours
she was up on her feet and eating.
Any person, with the assistance OF
another. can easily give the oxygen
treatment to a COW for milk fever.
The animal is too weak and paralyzed
to make resistance. In all cases IT is
we'll to wash the teats and udder well
and to carefully disinfect both instru-
ments and teats to prevent Infection
The remedy Is very simple and very
effective. only one case in about TWEEN
ty proving failure.