How do you cure pig diseases? Symptomatic treatment is the key

    Based on many years of experience in the industry, I have found that many farmers just love giving these three injections: penicillin, streptomycin, and dexamethasone. No matter what the disease is, they start injecting right away, without considering the size of the pig or the symptoms of the disease. Blind, trial-and-error medication is a major mistake among us farmers. There are even rural veterinarians who do not remember even the most basic common knowledge, for example, they do not even know the normal body temperature of a pig. A pig farmer's pig is perfectly fine with a normal body temperature, yet they insist the pig has a fever and tell them to inject antipyretic drugs. Doing so causes drastic changes in the pig's body temperature and blood pressure, leading to injury or death, and the loss outweighs the gain.

    Times have changed, and the environment has changed greatly as well. Nowadays, once pig diseases reach a serious degree, many of them are mixed infections. Sometimes using a single-formula drug simply cannot solve the problem. Some farmers even believe that as long as a pig eats normally, there is nothing wrong. Often pigs in a sub-healthy state become extremely seriously ill once the disease strikes. Usually you must observe more, carefully observing respiration, feces,  coat color, posture, and so on.

    Pig diseases must be treated symptomatically, with medication chosen according to the symptoms, and targeted treatment. If a mixed infection appears, then you must treat the symptom most likely to endanger life and safety first. For example, with wheezing and dermatitis, you must first treat the wheezing. Whichever symptom is most likely to kill the pig, treat that symptom first. This is the principle.

    Fellow farmers, there is no universal cure in a pig farm. There are only so many common pig diseases, but there are indeed many different kinds of mixed infections, so diagnosing the disease correctly and choosing the right medication is the key to treatment.