An acute case of iron toxicity on newborn piglets from Vitamin E/Se deficient sows
ABSTRACT: A 270 sow herd cut down feed costs by lowering Vitamin E and Selenium that was changed from an organic to an inorganic form. Several months later two week newborn batches were affected by a deadly hemorragic clinical entity developed 6 hours after a normal iron dextran injection. The brand...
- Autores:
-
Velásquez, Jaime
Aranzazu Taborda, Diego Alfonso
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2004
- Institución:
- Universidad de Antioquia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UdeA
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/7284
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10495/7284
- Palabra clave:
- Vitamin E
Selenium
Deficiencia de oligoelementos
Piglets
Cerdos
Sows
Toxicidad
Vitamina E
Hierro
Lechones
Selenio
Toxicity
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)
| Summary: | ABSTRACT: A 270 sow herd cut down feed costs by lowering Vitamin E and Selenium that was changed from an organic to an inorganic form. Several months later two week newborn batches were affected by a deadly hemorragic clinical entity developed 6 hours after a normal iron dextran injection. The brand of the iron came from a 2 year supplier, a world renown manufacturer. A therapeutic diagnosis was applied satisfactorily. |
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