Detailed Explanation of Feeding Methods for Piglets During Medication

Many rural farmers are accustomed to adding concentrated feed during the period when piglets are ill, unaware that many feeds and feed additives can counteract the drugs used to prevent and treat piglet diseases, reducing the efficacy of the drugs and even worsening the condition.

Avoid feeding sorghum: Sorghum contains a relatively large amount of tannic acid, which has an antidiarrheal effect. If laxative drugs are being used for piglet poisoning or constipation, sorghum should be stopped immediately.

Avoid feeding mung beans: Mung beans can neutralize all medicines. No matter what medicine a piglet is taking, mung beans should be prohibited.

Avoid feeding wheat bran: Wheat bran is a high-phosphorus, low-calcium feed, with a phosphorus content more than 3.5 times that of calcium. When treating rickets, osteomalacia, urinary stones and other diseases, wheat bran should be stopped. Excessive phosphorus intake can reduce iron absorption, so when using ferrous sulfate and other drugs to treat piglet anemia, wheat bran should especially be stopped.

Avoid feeding blood meal: Blood meal is an animal protein feed with a relatively high protein content. Common Chinese herbal medicines such as He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum), cooked rehmannia, pinellia, raw rehmannia and psoralea should never be used together with blood meal to prevent increased side effects.

Avoid feeding bone meal: Bone meal contains a relatively large amount of minerals and can reduce the efficacy of oxytetracycline and tetracycline. When using these two antibiotics to treat infectious diseases, bone meal should be prohibited.

Avoid feeding salt: Whenever piglets are given oral streptomycin bromide preparations or are being treated for nephritis, salt feeding should be restricted or stopped.