Veterinary Clinical Medicine-II

CHARACTERISTICS OF HYPOMAGNESEMIC TETANY

Characterised by

• Hypomagnesaemia.
• Hypocalcaemia.
• Clinically clonic-tonic muscular spasms and convulsions, death due to respiratory failure.
• Tetany associated with depression of Mg.

Two types

• Whole milk tetany -due to specific deficiency of Mg in diet.
• Lactation tetany - due to partial dietary deficiency i.e. nutritional / metabolic factors that decrease availability or increase body loss.