What to Do If a Sow Has a High Fever of 41 Degrees? Detailed Treatment Methods

If a sow has a high fever of 41 degrees, first confirm whether it is swine fever. If it is not swine fever, you can use traditional Chinese medicine injections for clearing heat and detoxifying, such as Bupleurum injection and Houttuynia injection. At the same time, use glucose injection to supplement the sick pig's energy, and antibiotics such as amoxicillin and oxytetracycline injection for auxiliary treatment. If, in addition to the high fever, the following symptoms also appear, then it is most likely swine fever.

What are the symptoms of swine fever?

1. Acute type

There is bleeding of varying degrees in the body skin, serous membranes, mucous membranes, and internal organs. The systemic lymph nodes are swollen, juicy, congested, and hemorrhagic, with a purplish-black appearance on the surface and a marbled appearance on the cut surface; the kidneys are pale in color, and the cortex has pinpoint-to-millet-sized hemorrhagic spots; the spleen has infarcts, mostly at the edges, appearing as small black-purple patches; the mucous membrane of the throat and the tonsils are hemorrhagic. The bladder mucosa has scattered hemorrhagic spots. The gastric and intestinal mucosa shows catarrhal inflammation. Button-shaped ulcers form at the ileocecal valve of the large intestine.

2. Chronic type

Necrotizing enteritis, with no obvious systemic hemorrhagic changes. Due to disturbance of calcium and phosphorus metabolism, in weaned sick pigs, a yellow ossification line formed by ossification disorder can be seen at the boundary where the ends of the ribs and cartilage tissue change.

3. Mild type

The symptoms are mild, atypical, and the condition is moderate; the pathological changes are not obvious; there are no small bleeding spots on the skin, but there is congestion and necrosis; appetite is sometimes good and sometimes bad; feces are sometimes dry and sometimes thin; the sick pigs are very emaciated, and the mortality rate is relatively high. Some also survive, but growth and development are severely stunted.

The possibility of a sow with a high fever being infected with swine fever is also relatively high, so in addition to doing a good job in routine management, the swine fever vaccine is absolutely indispensable.