Synonyms

No known synonym

Name of the disease in English

Aspiration pneumonia

The disease in brief

This disease develops as a severe toxemia caused by infection and necrosis, often gangrenous in nature, of the pulmonary parenchyma and supporting tissues following the arrival in the lung of food or other materials through various situations: A clumsy drenching, or on a lethargic bovine, bathing drowning, paralysis-obstruction of the esophagus, more rarely vomiting.

Clinic & diagnosis

This is a sudden onset of respiratory signs: Several clinical pictures may exist separately or simultaneously:

-After drugging or after a coughing fit, we see clear dyspnea which can go as far as apparent discordance, or expiration accompanied by a complaint.

- Dyspnea that can lead to apparent discordance or respiratory distress is accompanied by a smell of putrefaction in the expired air.

The disease often leads to death within days.

Typical sign of the disease

No description

Pictures

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Diagnostic formulas

No description

Differential diagnosis

-Acute pleuro-pneumonia Mannheimia haemolytica RS24.4

–Emphysema RS28 acute-form regains

-Pleurisy N141

-Terminal pulmonary edema RS28.2

-Pneumothorax N145

- Pulmonary heart-heart failure N14

-Caudal vena cava thrombosis N220

Confirm a suspicion?

The clinical picture and the rapid fatal evolution mean that confirmation is made at autopsy.

Prognosis and treatment

To have a real chance of recovery, it is necessary to intervene very early after the foreign body has invaded the lung: Set up a broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment (tetracyclines, amoxycillin, TMP sulfonamides) to be continued for 5-7 days.

Prevention

In your prescriptions, present drugging of sick cattle as delicate operations / Drinkable calcium has caused significant damage to cows with milk fever and lazy pharynx.

References

Veterinary Medicine-Pocket companion -9th Edition BLOOD DC-page 164