Beware of salt poisoning in pigs after the holidays; do not feed pigs the water from salted meat, salted fish, or leftover dishes

    Based on past lessons, some farmers collect the water used to wash salted meat and salted fish during the Chinese New Year together with leftover dish water and feed it all to their pigs. This practice is the most likely to cause salt poisoning in pigs.

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    After salt poisoning, a pig stops eating, becomes listless, has reduced vision, is thirsty and drinks dirty water, has dry feces, holds its body in an unnatural posture, walks unsteadily, breathes abnormally, has congested conjunctiva, chews continuously at the mouth, and drools a large amount of white foam. Some turn in circles in one direction, while most charge blindly straight ahead, bump into walls without dodging, and then fall to the ground; sometimes the head and neck suddenly convulse with the head tilted back, and sometimes they make swimming motions. This disease is mostly paroxysmal, with an attack every 20 minutes, but in the later stage the pig cannot stand up, enters a comatose state, and dies while in a coma.

    Prevention and treatment: During the Chinese New Year and other festivals, the water used to wash salted meat and salted fish and leftover rice and dishes can be fed to pigs, but do not give too much at one time, because this leftover water and leftover rice and dishes contain a lot of salt, and pigs are prone to poisoning after eating them; they can be mixed with other feed. If a pig does suffer salt poisoning, the following emergency measures can be taken:

    1. Immediately stop feeding high-salt feed and provide plenty of drinking water or drench with warm water. 2. Bleed the poisoned pig from the ear tips, tail tip, and the four hooves. 3. At the early stage of the disease, give an oily laxative (either vegetable oil or animal oil). 4. Intravenously inject 60-100 milliliters of 10% calcium gluconate, or 60-100 milliliters of 50% hypertonic glucose, and subcutaneously inject 5-10 milliliters of 10% caffeine sodium benzoate.