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Thelitis in Buffalo Heifer

THELITIS

             Thelitis is a disease affecting primarily the high-yielding primiparous graded Murrah milch buffaloes and causing serious economic losses to the farmers.
            The disease is characterized by acute inflammation of one or more teats with subsequent thickening, narrowing or closure of the teat canal leading to incomplete milk drainage.
            The quality of milk appears to be normal unlike in clinical mastitis.
            Thelitis may lead to ulceration, focal necrosis, and partial or complete sloughing off the affected teat.
            Healing may be delayed due to the trauma of milking and secondary bacterial infections.

Treatment 

  •         Corticosteroids are effective in treating thelitis and it may combined with antibiotics.
  •         Intra-lesion infusion of hyaluronidase also be effective in case of thelitis.


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