Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, Ethics and Jurisprudence College of Veterinary Science, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263 145, Uttarakhand, India.
1Present Address: Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, Ethics and Jurisprudence, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, CSK HPKV, Palampur - 176 062, H.P., (India).
Diarrhoea was induced in 24 neonatal calves by oral administration of two doses of 1010 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (O101: K99) to each calf and then these calves were divided into four equal groups consisting of 6 calves in each. The diarrhoeic calves of four groups were treated with four different ORSs viz., conventional ORS, high caloric glutamine free ORS, Ca-Mg nutrient ORS without glutamine and Ca-Mg nutrient ORS with glutamine in full strength immediately after observing the peak diarrhoeic criteria. The assessment of the beneficial effects of different ORSs was done by observing the improvement of clinical parameters viz., demeanour, extremity temperature, skin elasticity, enophthalmos, mucous membrane appearance and faecal consistency. The result of improvement of clinical parameters after 4 days of therapy revealed that Ca-Mg nutrient ORS with glutamine is more effective as compared to other three ORSs.
Calf diarrhoea, Clinical parameters, Oral rehydration therapy
