Oral and Poster Abstracts

The goal of this paper is to expose the importance of treatment and
hydrotherapy Mechanical diarrhoea with 0 to 4% dehydration: Stop
administering milk, correction of the exceeded amount,
administration of serum orally. Acute diarrhoea with 5 to 7%
dehydration: substitute milk administration for oral electrolytic
serum we recommend to start treatment and hydrotherapy as soon as
possible to avoid serious electrolytic unbalanced, acidosis and
chronic infection. 10 % of live weight must be administered in oral
serums. Apply antibiotic treatment orally and parenterally with the
same substance to avoid antagonisms, intoxication or allergies.
Parenteral treatment penicillin 22.000 I.U./kg/24 hrs/7 days I.M., or
oxitetraciclins 10 mg/kg/24 hrs7 days I.M., I.V. Chronic diarrhoea
with a 7 to 9 % dehydration. Administration of oral and for
parenteral hydrotherapy use the following formula: body weight
multiplied by the dehydration rate, divided over one hundred, the
result is the hydrotherapy volume that must be administered every 24
hours. In cases of metabolic acidosis with hiponatremia the sodium
hypertonic alkalinizing solutions are indicated. Administer
Gentamicin 3 mg/Kg/24 hrs/5 days, I.M., I.V. via, or sulphatrimetoprim
25 mg kilo/24 hrs/8 days, I.M., I.V. Piroxicam
administration 1 ml/25 kg/24 hrs deep I.M. mix of 5 ml of sulfatrimetoprim
+ 5ml of bismute salicilate + 5 ml of caolin and pectin 8
hours. To avoid Coccidias you should administer toltrazuril. For
appetite stimulation administer vitamins, brotizolam or CC51 with
Ciproheptadine. To stimulate the immune system use caseinates.
Severe diarrhoea with dehydration from 10 to 12% with
hydrotherapy you get blood volume back to normal levels and that
starts again the real and hepatic function and the acid-base and
electrolytic balance, if miction starts in the 60 minutes after the
administration of hydrotherapy and stimuli response it means that it
is working and we will avoid the risk of uraemia. Administer
Ceftiofur 1 mg/Kg/24 hrs and flunixin meglumin 2.2 mg/kg/24 hrs.
Serious diarrheoa with an over 12% of dehydration In this cases the
calf shows nervous signs so we need to avoid seizures administering
Xilacine 0.2 mg kilo I.V. and Hartmann serum also via I.V. via,
added with 5 grs of sodium bicarbonate to fight acidosis. Overacute
diarrhoea. You must administer very quickly the treatment,
enrofloxacin 2.5 mg/kg/24hrs/ 5 days I.M., hydrotherapy must be
administered by I.V. via
1044 Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Calves Naturally Affected to
Respiratory Disease: Cellular, Microbiological and
Serological Variables
MR. Mokhber Dezfouli 1 , H. Seifi 2 , A. Araghi 1 , P. Tajik 1 ,
S. Lotfollahzadeh 1
1 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Clinical
Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad,
Clinical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
In 1979, Wilkie and Markham introduced bronchalveolar lavage
(BAL) in live cattle as a safe and repeatable research tool which has
subsequently been utilized in numerous other studies for investigation
of cellular and non-cellular immune events in the lower respiratory
tract of cattle. The objective of this study was to compare various
components of BAL of healthy calves with those affected with
respiratory tract disease. Samples obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage
(BAL) were used to evaluate pulmonary cytology, microbiology and
serology in twenty calves with respiratory disease and eight healthy
calves as control. Calves were sampled using BAL on the same day that
they were designated as either cases or control. To evaluate the changes
in microbial flora, BAL fluid were cultured on selective media for
special bacterial and fungal pathogens of the respiratory system. There
was no significant difference of bacteriological and fungal culture and
serological results between cases and control calves. There was no
significant difference of BAL variables on case and control groups. Our
findings suggest that the elevation of neutrophils in BAL above 10% of
the total cells may indicate pulmonary disease. In addition it appears
that the isolation of microorganisms cultured from BAL, os not always
consistent with the identification of causal agent of the disease.
Key words: bronchoalveolar lavage, pulmonary disease, blood, calves
1045 The Impact of Dairy Cows Management during the Dry
Period on their Offspring’s Performances in Morocco
H. Guemoune, A. Ilham, L. Maach, S. Alali
244 XXV. Jubilee World Buiatrics Congress 2008
Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco, Pathologie
Médicale et Chirurgicale des Ruminants, Rabat, Morocco
The study aimed to evaluate the impact of management of dairy
cows during the dry period on growth and health performances of the
calves and also to assess the growth performance of heifers raised in
a common rearing unit in keeping with their originated herds. The
results obtained showed that calves performances depended on the
management conditions applied to these animals between their birth
and their delivery age to the rearing unit and also on some factors
related to the cow during the dry period. Thus, the average daily gain
(ADG) of the calves that reached 0.69 kg was influenced by the
mother cow’s body condition score during the dry period and its
general health status as well as by the total plasmatic protein (TPP)
of the calves and the delivery age to the common rearing unit
(p