Clinical signs

CLINICAL SIGNS
  • Signs of abdominal pain
  • Flank watching, flank biting
  • Pawing and frequent lying down
  • Kicking at the abdomen
  • Protrusion of penis
  • Sham drinking of water
  • ‘Saw horse’ stance
  • Frequent attempts of urinate and defecate and rolling
  • Tachycardia
  • Polypnoea
  • Tympanic gut sounds
  • Abdominal distention
  • Cool extremities and frequent sweating in severe cases
  • Pinging sound in combined auscultation and percussion of intestinal area.
  • Colonic impaction, distention or displacement on per rectal examination
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