VCP 411: Medicine Section

METABOLIC PROFILE TEST

• Metabolic profile test is intended to be a sequence of balance between’ input’ a in terms of nutrients absorbed from gastrointestinal tract and ‘output’ in terms of requirements of those nutrients for maintenance pregnancy and lactation.
• If ‘input’ is inadequate to match the demand of the ‘output’ the levels of the metabolites in the blood may fall. Initially this fall may slight and not manifested as a clinical abnormality.
• As the reduction in metabolic concentration progresses, then comes a stage when it may be seen as clinical disease. The metabolic profile test can therefore be used as both an early warning indicator of subclinical disease and as a diagnostic procedure.

Objectives

• To monitor health status of the animal
• To assess input, output and thorough put relationship or to detect the qualitative and quantitative adequacy of the diet in a farm.
• To diagnose nutritional imbalance and metabolic production diseases in early stage.

Compton metabolic profile test

• A test based on the concept that the nutritional status of an animal can be estimated by the chemical measurement of some of the components of the blood. It is used to determine the need for variation in the diet of the animal or herd and is thought to be more accurate and to be effective much earlier than the clinical assessments that are more customary as preventive measures.
• The testing procedure includes the collection of blood samples on a number of occasions during the year and from cows in various stages of nutritional and lactational stress.
• Only a small group of cows is examined and proper statistical precautions are taken to ensure that conclusions drawn will be valid.
• A large number of biochemical estimations are carried out on the blood samples, and in some instances on urine samples, so that the animals’ nutritional and metabolic status with respect to most of the significant metabolites can be assessed.