4 Treatment and Control

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In the previous class, that is a lesson-3, we had a discussion on Hypermagnesaemic- How to Diagnose based on various laboratory techniques like Serum analysis, Urine analysis, and then in a dead animal usually how to Diagnose based on a series of magnesium status as well as a Vitreous humor level of magnesium.

And today’s class which is a lesson-4 is an important part of the lecture because of How to Manage Hypermagnesemia, so here in this class, we are going to see about the various route of Magnesium administration and How to Prevent and Control the Hypermagnesemia.

The important part of Treatment is Intravenous Magnesium administration, that is since most of the time Hypercalcemia and Hyperminosia occur concurrently, it is the best choice of Treatment and commercially available preparation containing Calcium Boro Gluconate 25% and then a Magnesium hypophosphate 5%. So this is very widely available in the market, you can go for this combined form for concurrent Hypermagnesemia as well as Hypercalcemia.

Apart from combined therapy, you need to go for a specific treatment that is a magnesium administration in various forms Magnesium chloride, Magnesium sulfate, and Magnesium oxide, there are different preparations, but the one thing important in Magnesium administration is we need to prepare the solution that is magnesium especially if you are going to use Magnesium sulfate, crystals are available we need to dilute with distilled water and prepare the IV solution. Now since the Magnesium sulfate causes severe medullary depression, so you can very very carefully we need to administer the Magnesium sulfate as a sole treatment so the recommended dilution is you can use a 20% solution of Magnesium sulfate as an intravenous injection and you need to monitor the respiration of the animal also. So always you should have Calcium as an antidote for Magnesium, whenever the animal is having respiratory depression. Then you can go for even Subcutaneous injection for maintenance of a Magnesium at the blood serum level, so there are various levels like you can go up to 20 ml of 50% solutions are suggested, if you go for a Subcutaneous injection. Apart from that IV and the Subcutaneous injection, even there will be better absorption of Magnesium at the intestine that is rectum, so rectal enema, that you can give about 50% solution of that is Magnesium chloride- 30 gram in the water you can administer as a rectal enema, so it will give an added advantage to the maintain the Magnesium level in the blood. So apart from parental injections, the supplementation by oral route, there are various preparations available, you can go for a Magnesium oxide or Magnesium chloride like that. You need to go for drenching if you go for overdosing, it may cause diarrhea. So you should give careful dosing and drenching in adult cattle.

So in this video you can see how high exited the signs of a cattle with that is a Hypomagnesemic sign, after treatment, the animal had a normal appetite and it is controllable, and the excitatory signs are decreased.

So in this case also, you can see in the excitatory sign before Treatment and after Magnesium and Calcium administration, you can see the favorable response in the animal become normal.

This is the most important part of the Management of Hypermagnesemia because most of the production disorders we need to Control by various factors, which cause Hypermagnesemia. So as you have seen in the earlier classes how the Hypermagnesemia may occur there is a factor, mainly the cereal grass pasture, that is an increase in the Potassium level of lush green pasture as well as the cereal grass, and then the increased urea top dressing and a fertilizer top, these are all the cases.

Another thing India, whenever the cattle are allowed for grazing so the high yielding animal should not be allowed on a lush green pasture, so rotational grazing system should be followed and apart from that you can go for a Magnesium oxide supplementation orally and there should be sufficiently dry matter intake that is concentrated, should be given to the animal to increase the absorption of Magnesium. And to increase the Sodium Potassium ratio, we can supplement Salt blocks that are available, so the Lactating cattle can be supplemented with this, they are allowed to lick on the salt block, which forms the source of Sodium as well as Magnesium thereby improving the absorption in dairy cattle.

Magnesium-containing solutions can be mixed with feed especially grasses.

The main disadvantage of Magnesium supplementation; oral supplementation is its very less palatability, so to improve the palatability along with the magnesium-containing preparation molasses should be added to the feed, to increase the feed intake of the cattle.

Apart from that Pellets are available, that is Magnesium-rich pellets that can be fed to the cattle. So in western developed countries, a normal dairy cattle practice, what they are doing in to control Hypomagnesemia Magnesium Bullets, Magnesium-rich bullets are placed in their reticulum, so that it will release the magnesium very slowly and avoid the occurrence of Hyper magnesium. Apart from that, you can go for a top dressing of a Magnesium spray on the fodder on pasture land. So, in this lesson-4, you have seen that is How to Treat Hypomagnesemia, mainly you just remember Calcium along with the Magnesium administration will give a favorable response in most the dairy cattle. And apart from that followed with Magnesium sulfate solution by IV injection, so it should be prepared and a high concentration should be avoided because it may cause severe material depression, and animals will die of respiratory failure.

The Subcutaneous route is also suggested and a rectal enema also improves the Magnesium absorption and …

In addition to that and the Control practices, there are various Magnesium preparation, and supplementation along with Molasses as well as we need to increase the dry matter intake, top dressing of a Magnesium, Magnesium Bullets are suggested in the prevention of Hypermagnesium in cattle.