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The same precautions taken for cattle handling of animals with scabies mites should be applied.
Treatment
Thorough wetting of skin with insecticide, two applications 10 – 12 days apart will rid the animals of mites. There is also an injectable worming drug called Ivermectin that is also effective.
SNAKE BITES
An animal that has been bitten by a snake requires treatment – some snakes are more deadly than others.
The venom of pit vipers which include rattlesnake, water moccasin, copperhead etc., contain two types of toxin. One attacks the nervous system and the other causes severe swelling at the site of the bite. A rodent or other small animal may die from the neurotoxin but a larger animal is not normally in so much danger unless the bite is on the face where swelling may constrict air passages that lead to suffocation.
Bites on leg or foot cause pain and swelling but do not need treatment unless infection develops.
A bite on the face should be treated with anti-inflammatory drugs to minimize swelling. Broad-spectrum antibiotics and tetanus antitoxin which is an antibody that counteracts a bacterial toxin, should be given. If the bite is several days old before discovered, the infected swelling should be lanced and flushed out. If the animal is ill with fever or in shock call the vet.
STRANGULATED TEAT FROM HAIR UDDER
Long hairs wet from milk left by a nursing calf may curl around the top of a teat.
Treatment
Thorough wetting of skin with insecticide, two applications 10 – 12 days apart will rid the animals of mites. There is also an injectable worming drug called Ivermectin that is also effective.
SNAKE BITES
An animal that has been bitten by a snake requires treatment – some snakes are more deadly than others.
The venom of pit vipers which include rattlesnake, water moccasin, copperhead etc., contain two types of toxin. One attacks the nervous system and the other causes severe swelling at the site of the bite. A rodent or other small animal may die from the neurotoxin but a larger animal is not normally in so much danger unless the bite is on the face where swelling may constrict air passages that lead to suffocation.
Bites on leg or foot cause pain and swelling but do not need treatment unless infection develops.
A bite on the face should be treated with anti-inflammatory drugs to minimize swelling. Broad-spectrum antibiotics and tetanus antitoxin which is an antibody that counteracts a bacterial toxin, should be given. If the bite is several days old before discovered, the infected swelling should be lanced and flushed out. If the animal is ill with fever or in shock call the vet.
STRANGULATED TEAT FROM HAIR UDDER
Long hairs wet from milk left by a nursing calf may curl around the top of a teat.