INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 1

Hypocalcaemia in Bitches and its Nutritional Management

  • Author:
  • P. Ravi Kanth Reddy, B. Hemkumar1, Ch. Girinath2, N.J. Srikanth Babu3
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 164 to 165

1Health Officer, Animal Care Land, SVVU, Tirupati

2Assistant Professor, Dept. of VBC, SVVU, Tirupati

3Founder, Animal Care Land, Tirupati

Department of Animal Nutrition, N.T.R. College of Veterinary Science, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU), Gannavaram-521101 (Andhra Pradesh)

*Ph. D. Scholar and Corresponding author. E-mail: ravi.nutrition001@gmail.com

Online published on 20 November, 2017.

Abstract

Fifty dogs in advanced pregnancy were surveilled for eclampsia signs and serum calcium levels. Among them eight female dogs with positive symptoms were evaluated and six were confirmed positive. The positive dogs were successfully treated with calcium borogluconate, multivitamins and phenobarbitone.

Keywords

Calcium, hypocalcaemia, malnutrition