INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

Tetanus in a Pup and its Therapeutic management

  • Author:
  • D. K. Gupta1, P. Bhatt, V. S. Rajora
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 385 to 386

1Clinical Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Science, GADVASU, Ludhiana

Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Govind Ballab Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar – 263 145. (Uttarkhand)

Online published on 24 January, 2012.

Abstract

A case of tetanus in a pup was treated with large doses of long acting penicillins along with anti toxins and muscle relaxants. Supportive medication included parentral dextrose saline, balanced electrolyte infusion, antioxidants and nervine tonics. The successful treatment of the case over a period of one and a half month was recorded.

Keywords

Pup, tetanus, tetanus antitoxin, treatment