Pets 'N' Vets

22/01/2025

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04/01/2025

31/12/2024

Key Takeaways

Remdesivir and GS-441524 have transformed FIP treatment, though veterinarians still face challenges in prescribing them.

The FDA permits GS-441524 compounding for FIP treatment when prescribed by a veterinarian for a specific feline patient.

Unregulated products carry risks due to a lack of quality control, and retrospective data from such cases have significant limitations.

Diagnosing FIP requires a comprehensive approach, and initiating treatment early is essential for affected cats.

Various treatment protocols exist for managing FIP, and these protocols may evolve as clinicians gain access to these medications.

26/12/2024

4-ipomeanol is a toxin found in moldy sweet potatoes that can cause fatal respiratory distress in cattle. Symptoms include: 

Respiratory distress

Cattle may develop a respiratory syndrome similar to atypical interstitial pneumonia, characterized by labored breathing, loud grunts, and deep coughs. 

Other signs

Cattle may also drool, foam at the mouth, vomit, or have diarrhea. In advanced stages, they may have red and ulcerated oral tissues, blood-tinged milk, abdominal pain, depression or excitation, and convulsions. 

Behavioral changes

Cattle may exhibit aberrant behavior, such as stampeding, ear twitching, trembling, champing, and salivating. This syndrome is known as "bovine bonkers syndrome". 

4-ipomeanol is a furanoterpenoid that targets bronchiolar exocrine cells in the lungs. The maximum nonlethal oral dose is estimated to be between 7.5 and 9 mg/kg of body weight. 

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Text- Pubmd, sage journals, sci direct and msd manual

21/12/2024

⚠️There are some updates in MOA 2025. Kindly go through the new MOA if you are registered for CPE 2025.

19/12/2024

It is cutaneous fibroma. It poses no zoonotic risk to humans or other deer. Papillomavirus is the etiological agent. The deer's prognosis is favorable unless the growths compromise feeding, vision, or respiration.

18/12/2024

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17/12/2024

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17/12/2024

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16/12/2024

Lupine toxicity- Cows eating lupine during early gestation often give birth to calves with cleft palates, crooked legs and distorted/malformed spines. Such deformed calves generally have to be euthanized. Epidemic outbreaks of such birth defects can have high morbidity resulting in enormous animal and economic losses.

Not all lupines are poisonous, nor do all species cause birth defects. Six of the poisonous species implicated in "crooked calf disease" are silky lupine (L. sericeus), tailcup lupine (L. caudatus), velvet lupine (L. leucophyllus), silvery lupine (L. argenteus), lunara lupine (L. formosus), and yellow lupine (L. sulphureus).

Poisonous species of lupine are dangerous from the time they start growth in the spring until seed pods shatter in late summer or fall. Younger plants are more toxic than older plants; however, plants in the seed stage in late summer are especially dangerous because of the high alkaloid content of the seeds and enhanced palatability in preference to dried senescent grasses. Under certain conditions and in many countries, sweet lupines are used as animal forage and seeds for human consumption.

Source - Text- USDA
Picture- Bione Journal and comercio ltd.

13/12/2024

11/11/2024

Coonhound paralysis describes a sudden, progressive paralysis in dogs and occasionally cats. The paralysis results from acute inflammation of multiple nerve roots (nerves that exit the spinal cord) as well as peripheral nerves (nerves located outside the spinal cord and brain that communicate between the nervous system and the tissues in the body including the muscles).

24/10/2024

Vena caval thrombosis and metastatic pneumonia is associated with multifocal abscesses in the lung as the result of embolism of the pulmonary arterial vascular system arising from septic thrombi in the caudal vena cava. The most common cause of vena caval thrombosis is ruminal acidosis leading to rumenitis and subsequent liver abscessation, which may result in a thrombus in the caudal vena cava if the vessel wall is infiltrated by the abscess. Treatment is usually unrewarding and control of the disease is largely achieved by careful management of feeding programs when adapting cattle to high grain diets.
Pic curtsey- Bovine vet & Science direct
Text- MSD manual.

26/07/2024

Sanitisation in shelter medicine.

18/01/2024

16/01/2024

Core Vaccines- The AVMA defines core vaccinations as those “that protect from diseases that are endemic to a region, those with potential public health significance, required by law, virulent/highly infectious, and/or those posing a risk of severe disease. Core vaccines have clearly demonstrated efficacy and safety, and thus exhibit a high enough level of patient benefit and low enough level of risk to justify their use in the majority of patients.”
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13/01/2024

Giardiasis is infection with the flagellated protozoan Giardia duodenalis (G. lamblia, G. intestinalis). Infection can be asymptomatic or cause symptoms ranging from intermittent flatulence to chronic malabsorption.
Diagnosis is by identifying the organism in fresh stool or duodenal contents, by assays for Giardia antigen, or molecular testing for parasite DNA in stool.
Treatment is with metronidazole, tinidazole, or nitazoxanide or, during pregnancy, paromomycin.

Source- MSD manual

11/01/2024

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health defines a drug as hazardous if it has 1 of the following characteristics: carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, teratogenicity (or other developmental toxicity), reproductive toxicity, organ toxicity at low doses, or mimicking of existing hazardous drugs in structure or toxicity.

Source~TVN