III Stage

STAGE III OF MILK FEVER

  • Lateral recumbency
  • Coma
  • Limbs – flaccid, unable to get up
  • Pulse – impalpable
  • Heart sounds – inaudible 120/min
  • Unable to raise the vein
  • Bloat if without treatment – animal dies within a period of 12 – 24 hrs
  • Milk fever with hypomagnesaemia and hyperphosphatemia
  • Tetany and hypersensitiveness beyond 1st stage
  • Excitement and fibrillary and twitching of the eyelids
  • Tetanic convulsion by touch or sound
  • Trismus
  • Heat and respiratory rate-accelerated
  • Heart sound – increased
  • Death occurs  due to respiratory failure

Reproductive tract

  • Dilated cervix, normal presentation of fetus, uterine prolapse, dystocia, retained placenta
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