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Cow has a swollen side

  • 12-06-2014 11:15pm
    #1
    allbuiz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 243 ✭✭


    I have a PB cow that her side completely swelled on. Gave her metacam, it did bring down swelling a bit but there is still some there, I checked the swelling and it's blood not puss therefore can't lance and give betamox for four days. Any ideas?


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  • #2
    Wheelinone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭Wheelinone


    allbuiz wrote: »
    I have a PB cow that her side completely swelled on. Gave her metacam, it did bring down swelling a bit but there is still some there, I checked the swelling and it's blood not puss therefore can't lance and give betamox for four days. Any ideas?

    Hematoma. Nothing to worry about.


  • #3
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Why does it matter that she is a PB cow?
    Why have you not called the vet out?
    How do you know it is blood?

    First port of call would always be a vet in that type of case. Not a few shots of metacam in the hopes that an anti-inflammatory would bring it down.


  • #4
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,217 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Metacam: For use in acute respiratory infection in cattle, also for use in diarrhoea and acute mastitis:confused::confused: dont know how it would take down a swelling.Ring vet


  • #5
    patjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭patjack


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Metacam: For use in acute respiratory infection in cattle, also for use in diarrhoea and acute mastitis:confused::confused: dont know how it would take down a swelling.Ring vet

    Metacam is a well known NSAID so yes it has potential to take swelling, it often gets prescribed for calves after they have been treated for joint ill, to help alleviate and remaining swelling and speed up the healing process.


  • #6
    patjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭patjack


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Why does it matter that she is a PB cow?
    Why have you not called the vet out?
    How do you know it is blood?

    First port of call would always be a vet in that type of case. Not a few shots of metacam in the hopes that an anti-inflammatory would bring it down.

    Think the op asked for ideas or insight not an inquisition. If you opinion is that he should contact Vet, just say contact Vet. No need to put the man on the stand


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  • #7
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,217 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    patjack wrote: »
    Metacam is a well known NSAID so yes it has potential to take swelling, it often gets prescribed for calves after they have been treated for joint ill, to help alleviate and remaining swelling and speed up the healing process.
    apologies i was only quoting the leaflet belonging to the injection, i am so so sorry


  • #8
    Jonblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭Jonblack


    whelan2 wrote: »
    apologies i was only quoting the leaflet belonging to the injection, i am so so sorry

    Why apologies, to quote "often gets prescribed for calves ". You are right to use only as intended, a vet is using his skill to cure the animal not second guessing. Read vet's corner IFJ this week.


  • #9
    ferger1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭ferger1


    patjack wrote: »
    Think the op asked for ideas or insight not an inquisition. If you opinion is that he should contact Vet, just say contact Vet. No need to put the man on the stand

    +1


  • #10
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    patjack wrote: »
    Think the op asked for ideas or insight not an inquisition. If you opinion is that he should contact Vet, just say contact Vet. No need to put the man on the stand

    Not intending to put him on the stand but it's information that I would be saying/doing if it was a cow of my own in question. First call would be to a vet rather than messing about with a cow especially if she is valuable.


  • #11
    whelan2
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Not intending to put him on the stand but it's information that I would be saying/doing if it was a cow of my own in question. First call would be to a vet rather than messing about with a cow especially if she is valuable.
    is it a swelling like bloat or a swelling that she banged it off something, if she banged it off something we had one , vet said to leave it alone and it will ripen and burst itself-which our one did, no need for metacam or anything else:D


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  • #12
    braveheart1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭braveheart1


    some right smart asses posting here.


  • #13
    jt65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭jt65


    whelan2 wrote: »
    is it a swelling like bloat or a swelling that she banged it off something, if she banged it off something we had one , vet said to leave it alone and it will ripen and burst itself-which our one did, no need for metacam or anything else:D

    was the blood congealed when it burst ?


  • #14
    whelan2
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    jt65 wrote: »
    was the blood congealed when it burst ?
    it was puss when it burst, my dad wanted to open it with a scalpel, vet said you would be opening it up to infection, let nature take its course. Took about a week for it to actually burst.


  • #15
    jt65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭jt65


    whelan2 wrote: »
    it was puss when it burst, my dad wanted to open it with a scalpel, vet said you would be opening it up to infection, let nature take its course. Took about a week for it to actually burst.

    in other words it was an abscess,

    think the op's may be different , vaguely remember a long time ago we had a cow with a large lump of clotted blood , the vet had to open it & remove the lumps of dried blood


  • #16
    mikeoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭mikeoh


    I had a cow a few years back presented the same way after a few days she kept having to sit down after walking a short distance ..next day she was dead.....post mortem showed she had been grained by some pissheads out lamping.....grains had punctured her left lung and she trickled away into her chest until she bleed out


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