Treatment

TREATMENT
  • Removal of the causative agent;
  • Specific treatment - intestinal helminthiasis with anthelmintics, antiprotozoan agents against diseases like coccidiosis and antimicrobial agents against bacterial enteritis.

Antimicrobials:

  • Orally or parenterally or both. Oral preparation should not be used for more than 3 days to avoid superinfection.
  • Mass medication for the treatment of outbreaks of specific infectious enteritis.
  • If the cause is dietary, the feed should be removed until the animal has fully recovered.

 Intestinal protectants and adsorbents:

  • Kaolin and pectin mixtures

Antidiarrheal drug: antimotility drugs

Antisecretory drug: treatment of hypersecretory activity of enterotoxin. Loperamide hydrochloride. Anti secretory drugs include chlorpromazine, opiates atropine and prostaglandin inhibitors. Loperamide should not be given in cats.

Control

  • Reduce infection pressure
  • Ensure adequate non specific resistance by adequate colostrums intake
  • Vaccinate for those diseases for which there is an effective vaccine
  • Minimize Managemental and environmental stressors.
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