Parturient Paresis. V. Blood Serum Levels of Citric Acid and Calcium in Normal Parturient Cows and Cows with Parturient Paresis

Effect of intravenous calcium and oral sodium phosphate in cows with parturient paresis.

The goal of this study was to determine whether oral administration of sodium phosphate in conjunction with intravenous calcium is more efficaceous than intravenous calcium alone for the treatment of parturient paresis. Thirty cows with parturient paresis were examined and treated by the same veterinarian. The cows were divided randomly into two groups of 15 cows each. Cows in group A received ...

Oral Calcium Boluses for Parturient Dairy Cows

1 Interpretative Summary: Effect of oral calcium supplementation on early lactation health 1 and milk yield in commercial dairy herds. By Oetzel and Miller, page 000. Low blood 2 calcium often occurs in older cows around calving and impairs subsequent health and milk yield. 3 Second lactation or greater cows in 2 commercial dairies with effective milk fever prevention 4 were divided into contro...

Calcium chloride gel treatment of parturient dairy cows: Effect on hypocalcemia and parturient diseases

The Degrees of Parturient Hypocalcemia and Its Relevance to Other Metabolic Profile Parameters in Downer Cows

At calving time, the cows were monitored and blood samples were taken from jugular vein of 38 cows with parturient paresis and 38 healthy ones. The levels of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, glucose, triglyceride, cholesterol, albumin, globulin and A/G ratio were assessed to find the correlation between the degree of hypocalcemia and other parameters. According to ca...

Status of Parturient Paresis (Hypocalcaemia and Milk Fever) on Dairy Farm in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia

A prospective follow up study was conducted in Addis Ababa town attends on different selected farms for fifteen months from January 2015 to April 2016. The aims of this study were to determine the current status of parturient paresis, associated risk factors, and to estimate the economic loss of parturient paresis that is attributed in dairy herds. Parturient paresis is a condition of third to ...