What to do when a cow has hard lumps, swelling, pain and restlessness in the udder? Methods for preventing and treating mammary hyperplasia

    Mammary hyperplasia is common in young cows and is accompanied by udder swelling and pain. When the udder is touched by hand, relatively hard lumps are found, also called mammary tumors, commonly known as milk lumps. In the early stage there are generally no obvious symptoms, and they are mostly benign, round, with a smooth surface, hard but elastic, with an intact capsule on the outside of the tumor, not adherent to surrounding tissues, able to move freely within the udder, and with no local lymph node enlargement. Otherwise, it is a malignant tumor. The cow is depressed, restless and uneasy, and easily startled.

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    In fact, mammary hyperplasia develops in response to the needs of the cow's bodily functions, and is also a phenomenon of limited division and proliferation of local mammary cells under the cow's own control. Once excessive hormone stimulation is lost, the hyperplasia will stop. In other words, udder swelling and pain in young cows is a normal physiological phenomenon. After ovulation, blood estrogen and progesterone levels decrease, the udder tissue returns to normal, and the swelling, pain and other discomfort gradually disappear, but this process may be long or short. Therefore, for cows, especially young cows, regular examinations should be carried out, feeding management should be improved and medication used for conditioning, environmental hygiene should be noted, and a good mental state should be maintained to prevent stress. This can relieve the restlessness and discomfort caused by mammary hyperplasia, and can also reduce the incidence of breast cancer, helping the cow's mammary hyperplasia heal as quickly as possible. The following methods can be used:

    Udder care: The cow's daily life should be regular, care should be taken to keep the udder clean, appropriate exercise should be maintained, and the environment should be kept quiet. Do not hit or injure the cow, so that the cow has a good mental state. Use hormone-containing drugs and additives with caution, limit the feeding amount of animal fat and high-sugar feed, do not feed pungent feed, and it is advisable to feed green, succulent feed.

    Regular massage: After mammary hyperplasia is found in a cow, in addition to normal massage and milking, after feeding at night each day, massage the lower parts of both sides of the udder 50 times each at fixed times. This helps promote blood and lymph return in the udder and reduce mammary cell activity.

    Hot compress therapy: In the later stage of the disease, to promote recovery, hot compresses can be applied to promote blood circulation, improve resistance, disperse inflammation, localize the lesions, and reduce local lump pain.

    Feeding Chinese patent medicine: Feed the sick cow human-use Rukang tablets, 30 tablets each time, 3 times a day. Ruxiao Sanjie tablets can also be fed, 40 pills each time, mixed into a small amount of feed, 3 times a day. Ruzengning tablets can also be used, 20 tablets each time, 3 times a day, until the udder lumps disappear.

    Dietary therapy: Take 500 grams of japonica rice, add 3 liters of water and cook into porridge, add an appropriate amount of white sugar, then add 200 grams of fried and crushed black sesame seeds, mix well and feed, 2 times a day for several consecutive days. Alternatively, 300 grams of shredded kelp and 150 grams of kohlrabi can be washed, shredded and fed to the cow. Alternatively, take 10 walnuts and 10 star anise each, first remove the walnut kernels, and feed them together with the star anise half an hour before the cow's feed, 3 times a day for several consecutive days. This method is suitable for cows with udder lumps that are tough and do not disappear.

    Surgical therapy: When necessary, the mammary tumor can be removed after routine local disinfection and anesthesia. For superficial mammary tumors, a radial incision can be made. After cutting open, separate the udder from the abdominal muscle, cut open the udder tissue at the base of the udder, and remove the tumor. Note that disinfection must be done well throughout the entire surgical process to prevent infection in the cow.