Pneumonia Treatment

aidanki

What is everyone using to treat pneumonia these times.

Baytril is now gone off the Irish market...........

Last calf with pneumonia I had to go to the vet and get a 1.5mm shot of a medicine that began with S, cant remember the name.

Would much prefer to have a bottle of baytril handy........

mahoney_j

aidanki wrote: »

What is everyone using to treat pneumonia these times.

Baytril is now gone off the Irish market...........

Last calf with pneumonia I had to go to the vet and get a 1.5mm shot of a medicine that began with S, cant remember the name.

Would much prefer to have a bottle of baytril handy........

Nuffor or better again resphicor (spelling??) or best of lot a vaccine bovipast

Lady Haywire

Micotil. Dear but good.

visatorro

Draxin?? Or something. The vaccination is the only way going forward. Took me a couple of years to get things half right!

charolais0153

Ventilation and no draughts

greysides

I wasn't aware Baytril is gone but I don't use it much. Unless it's the active ingredient that's gone there will be generics, like Enrotil and Enroxil, available. Marbocyl and it's generics are the closest antibiotics to Baytril that I know of.

Jb1989

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Micotil. Dear but good.

Can it be still sold to customers? Thought it was by vet administration only?

memorystick

Is there much pneumonia out there at the moment?

tanko

memorystick wrote: »

Is there much pneumonia out there at the moment?

A neighbours three week old CH calf had it this evening. The vet that treated the calf said that they’re mad busy this week with pnuemonia, scours and the like in cattle recently let out.
The big daily swings in temperatures lately are a huge cause i think along with downpours of rain.

Lady Haywire

Jb1989 wrote: »

Can it be still sold to customers? Thought it was by vet administration only?

Has to be given by a vet alright but I've found that if it's to be used they need a vet anyway. I wouldn't be wholeheartedly confident in treating full blown pneumonia myself, would be more used to treating mild cases or a draw on a calf.

oldsmokey

Micotil and cortisone work well together. Micotil can be fatal to humans.

The man in red and black

charolais0153 wrote: »

Ventilation and no draughts

++++ on this point. Prevention better than cure.

Calves with pneumonia and joint ill are similar in my book. People get very worked up about which antibiotic to use for these cases.

I believe in both cases choice of antibiotic is far less important than catching cases early, treating for long enough and using anti-inflammatories. Often times you pneumonia is viral with bacteria a secondary problem. You can kill the bacteria but the inflammation in the lungs will take longer to resolve. Hot weather is hard on animals that had severe pneumonia in the past. Lungs can be left wrecked after a bad bout and animals only just getting by can tip over the edge on hot days.

aidanki

what treatment would you usually use for anti inflammatory

tanko

aidanki wrote: »

what treatment would you usually use for anti inflammatory

I find Metacam very good.

Base price

aidanki wrote: »

what treatment would you usually use for anti inflammatory

Dexamethasone is what our Vet prescribes.