Sick Goat and Lamb Can’t Get Up! Polio: A Comprehensive Treatment Guide

Sick Goat and Lamb Can’t Get Up! Polio: A Comprehensive Treatment Guide. In this video, Tim discusses Lamb and Goat Polio. Please check out the information below! Always consult your local veterinarian! We are not veterinarians; medicating livestock without veterinarian direction is dangerous and can lead to animal death. Our music is provided by Bensound. For more information about Bensound, check them out at www.bensound.com.
Signs and symptoms of Goat and Lamb Polio:
-Muscle rigidity
-Lack of coordination
-Periorbital swelling (swelling around the eyes)
-Blindness/stargazing
-Seizure activity
-Head turned over the back
-Hunching/Arching of the back
Treatment for goat and lamb polio is as follows:
-5ml Vitamin B complex (containing 100mg vitamin B1/thiamine) subcutaneously, every 12 hours until symptoms improve.
-For acute/severe cases, consider 2ml given intramuscularly once in addition to subcutaneous injections.
-Once symptoms improve, continue 5ml Vitamin B complex every day for another 5 days.
-Continue to give 5ml Vitamin B complex once a week for one month.
-Consider Dexamethasone for inflammation, 1ml per 20-50lbs body weight, subcutaneously, every 24 hours.
-Temporary blindness may be occurring. Please consider providing an oral drench of water if needed.
-Consider placing animals in a small pen where water and food are easily accessible.
-Vitamin B Complex is available over the counter at most big box farm stores.
-Dexamethasone is available by prescription only.
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[@973jose]

I want to thank you sir because you have helped me big time I had one of my dorper ram down for 2 days I couldn’t figure out what it was until I saw your video I purchased the b complex now he is up and running THANK YOU!keep up the good work and let the LORD keep blessing your gift🙏

[@emmanuelspromisefarm6118]

Thank you. . . will be saving video in my library for future use if needed....

[@narig5562]

I have goats also had polio,I just given b complex and L300

[@yaseenali-ii1dn]

Welldone Dr

[@LinessaFarms]

Thanks!

[@kayleighfeltner1009]

I just went out and one of my females is down can’t stand it’s 9pm here nothing is open any pointers for over night

[@LinessaFarms]

There is no good answer for this question because it’s difficult to know why this is happening.

[@merryanneadair4451]

Thank you! I'm fighting this in a Saanen doeling right now. Have been treating with Vitamin B Complex & Penicillin every 12 hours for 3 days. I think I'll head to the vet tomorrow with her. Wondering if the Vitamin B Complex doesn't have high enough % of Thiamine.

[@LinessaFarms]

Not all vitamin B is created equally. You might need to get “fortified” vitamin B from your vet that contains the right amount of thiamine.

[@merryanneadair4451]

@@LinessaFarms thanks to your VERY helpful video, I'll be taking her in to the vet. She's a granddaughter of a Caprikorn Farms buck from Maryland. REALLY don't want to lose her!! Thank you again!

[@garrettbrittle1428]

great video. So the goat should be treated about once a week for the rest of its life after recovering from polio? My 1 year old whether is star gazing, mostly blind, easily startled, when I pick him up his neck cranks to the right and gets stiff. He's still walking around and eating but definitely loses orientation and his relying on sound and smell. I started B complex injections yesterday. Hoping he recovers....but it sounds like I'll need to give a Vitamin B shot about once a week going forward?

[@LinessaFarms]

Hello and thank you for watching our videos. Continue with the vitamin B injections until he recovers and consider continuing them a couple of additional weeks. After this, you should be able to stop the injections. If he should not recover there may be some more in depth physiological damage which may never correct itself regardless of medication.

[@garrettbrittle1428]

@@LinessaFarms ok thank you for the response! headed to the vet in the morning!

[@prayerangel1]

Where can you get dexamethasone? I don't have a single vet in my area that will sell me any nor give me a prescription for it so I can buy it elsewhere. I really need it....yesterday. Have been treating a lamb with PEM for 5 days now with the B1 but seeing slow or very little improvement. Really need the dexamethasone!

[@LinessaFarms]

Hello! We are sorry to hear about your problem. Please send us an email at [e-mail] and we will work to put you in touch with someone who can help you out based on your location. Worst case scenario, we will work with you to set up a prescription and get something shipped to you.

[@prayerangel1]

@@LinessaFarms Thank you!!!!

[@lorib9022]

Hi, I have an older sheep who is now having trouble with her back legs. She can't seem to stand up. Any suggestions? I see that you can give them aspirin but I am a bit nervous about it. Thank you!

[@LinessaFarms]

Is she pregnant or does she have any other issues going on? There are many different reasons this could be happening ranging from parasites, nutritional deficit, age related pain, or infection. You would need to check her temperature to see if she has an infection as well as check her for parasites. If these come back clean, I would encourage you to look at her nutrition and consider some vitamin B, specifically thiamine. If she is just old and having joint pain you can use tumeric in her feed. You would need to give this daily to see results (if it is due to inflammation).

[@user-ko4wf9qq7v]

Hello Sir My Goat has been suffering from PEM Since last Sunday...All Symptoms have been gone except blindness.....now what medicine should I give to my goat... currently we are giving Neurobion injection 3ml 02 times a day

[@LinessaFarms]

I would also consider injectable vitamin B complex if it is available.

[@jessicaallgood3391]

WARNING make sure your b complex has B1..... some don't

[@LinessaFarms]

Jessica, this is correct. Goat polio is due to a thiamine deficiency and individuals should be cautious to ensure their vitamin B "complex" shows B1. Check your label... Most fortified B complex will have B1 but all B vitamin complexes are not created equally. For our customers living overseas, you may see B1 referred to as thiamine, thiamin, or aneurine.