I would like some advice from experienced goat folks!
I have an almost 3 month old kid. He started with cow patty diarrhea Monday and continued yesterday. Then yesterday afternoon he started to bloat.
I treated him with baking soda, therablot, and lots of massage and got him burping, only to have him puff back up again within an hour. I took to tubing him a couple of times to relieve the gas which came right back. I have never dealt with enterotoxemia before, but I started to get the idea that whatever was producing the gas wasn't just frothy bloat when the therabloat wasn't neutralizing it, so I called the vet out this morning. He has had one CD&T shot, which is likely why he was still getting along since he had some immunity.
She treated him, about 40 lbs. kid, with 20 cc of anti-toxin, 2 tums to help his calcium levels,some banamine, and 1 dose penicillin. She said she preferred to do 1 big dose instead of several small ones and that I didn't need to repeat it.
She told me to repeat the penicillin for 5 days once per day and he can have the TUMS as needed (or pepto or whatever)
Everything I read says that the anti-toxin should be administered Sub-Q 2-3 times a day during the recovery period.
Can someone who has lots of experience treating this please chime in as the appropriate dosings/timing for the anti-toxin?
Thank you.
I have an almost 3 month old kid. He started with cow patty diarrhea Monday and continued yesterday. Then yesterday afternoon he started to bloat.
I treated him with baking soda, therablot, and lots of massage and got him burping, only to have him puff back up again within an hour. I took to tubing him a couple of times to relieve the gas which came right back. I have never dealt with enterotoxemia before, but I started to get the idea that whatever was producing the gas wasn't just frothy bloat when the therabloat wasn't neutralizing it, so I called the vet out this morning. He has had one CD&T shot, which is likely why he was still getting along since he had some immunity.
She treated him, about 40 lbs. kid, with 20 cc of anti-toxin, 2 tums to help his calcium levels,some banamine, and 1 dose penicillin. She said she preferred to do 1 big dose instead of several small ones and that I didn't need to repeat it.
She told me to repeat the penicillin for 5 days once per day and he can have the TUMS as needed (or pepto or whatever)
Everything I read says that the anti-toxin should be administered Sub-Q 2-3 times a day during the recovery period.
Can someone who has lots of experience treating this please chime in as the appropriate dosings/timing for the anti-toxin?
Thank you.
